China News Service, Liaoning, September 27. Horqin Grassland is the hometown of Mongolian horses.
Liaohe Horse Cultural Characteristic Town (Industrial Park) Project Construction Seminar 27 ended. The theme of the meeting was "Construction of Horse Cultural Characteristic Towns". The experts, scholars and industry professionals at the meeting focused on building the "Korqin Mongolian Horse" brand and nurturing related articles. The development of tourism industry projects was discussed in depth.
Over the years, Tongliao City has strived to build a 500-kilometer cultural and tourist scenic avenue. As the "Korqin Grassland City Meeting Room", Tongliao Development Zone relies on its unique location advantages and the development accumulation of the horse industry in Horqin Horse City and its jurisdiction. There is a bearing, so the Liaohe horse cultural characteristic town came into being.
The picture shows the seminar site.
Provided by the organizer
According to reports, the Liaohe horse cultural characteristic town has Turjishan Street as its central axis, Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Horqin Horse City, Hasar Holy Land and other cultural tourism projects in the south, and new planned land for the characteristic town in the north. Village-Dongfeng Village and other folk custom villages are closely connected, covering a total area of 11.5 square kilometers.
The location advantage of the characteristic town is very convenient. It is about 5 kilometers and a 10-minute drive from the Tonglu Expressway entrance and the main city. After the opening of the high-speed rail, it will take 1.5 hours to Shenyang and 3.5 hours to Beijing.
After the completion of the town, the radiated area will reach 26.6 square kilometers, and it will become a jewel in the northern part of the main urban area that exhibits the Mongolian and Yuan culture, and complements the Xiaozhuanghe Museum and the Mengyuan Cultural Street on the south side.
Kong Rong, deputy director of the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said at the meeting that small towns with Chinese characteristics are an effective space carrier for transforming culture into the core competitiveness of the country, industry and society. The top-level planning must take into account the needs of regional development and industry. Investing interests, serving dual populations, national overall value and long-term national interests, become a life body with spiritual value, historical memory, cultural tradition, modern fashion, full of vitality and facing the future.
Only Korea, an equine science expert from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, believes that the equine industry is a very mature industry abroad, and it is especially feasible to be a horse culture town in Inner Mongolia.
"First of all, we have the foundation, with horses, horse culture, inheritance, and 30 years of experience accumulation. From the project perspective, it is feasible and necessary. From the economic level, it can not only drive farmers to generate income, but also from the cultural level. Being able to promote our national culture, from the perspective of the sports industry, provides a channel for mass sports, recreation, fitness and entertainment."
"Liaohe Horse Cultural Town is actually the horse industry in the form of cultural tourism. We call it the cultural tourism horse industry for short. This requires the racecourse to be adjusted to the direction of cultural tourism destinations, to increase content, increase visibility, Increase the sense of experience, add new business formats, transform and upgrade, and become bigger and stronger." said Wu Gangfang, director of China Horse Culture Sports Tourism Planning and Research Institute.
During the meeting, the participants also came to the Meilin Military Horse Farm, Inner Mongolia Hongyi Horse Industry, Horqin Horse City and other places to make field trips to understand the development of horse culture industry in the development zone.
Tongliao City stated that the next step will be to fully promote the construction of the horse culture town, build the entire industry chain of the horse industry, create a national horse culture tourism destination and horse industry gathering place, enrich the people with new industries, new platforms for cultural tourism and new city cards.
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