China News Service, Hefei, January 19 (Cheng Zhanpeng Liu Hao) "Relying on the world cultural heritage, national 5A-level scenic spots Xidi and Hongcun, we will build world-class tourist attractions, activate the development momentum in the region, and comprehensively focus on modern international rural tourism. Demonstration area construction, to build Yixian international rural tourism resort." Wang Ji, director of Yixian Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Anhui Province, said in an interview with Chinanews on the 19th.
A few days ago, Anhui Province's "14th Five-Year" tourism development plan proposed that relying on the Huangshan tourism brand and resource endowment, it will speed up the construction of a world-class tourist attraction with rich cultural heritage, quickly build a modern tourism industry system, and explore a model for realizing the efficient operation of the dual cycle of tourism. The model will be built into a bridgehead that leads Anhui tourism to go international, realizes the international development of the province's tourism industry and builds Anhui's internationally renowned tourism destination.
Photo by Fan Chengzhu at the Huizhou Ancient Village in Yixian County
As an important cultural and tourism county in Huangshan City, Yixian County will help Huangshan City to achieve its goal of becoming an internationally renowned tourist destination during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and what role will it play?
What does it do?
Wang Ji made an analysis and introduction.
Wang Ji said that in the process of advancing the goal of realizing an internationally renowned tourist destination, Yi County will play a role of demonstration and leadership.
First, Yi County has world-class cultural tourism resources, Xidi Hongcun is a world cultural heritage, and it is the first traditional Chinese village to enter the international perspective; second, Yi County has a world-class cultural tourism development platform and is a world-class natural environment in Hangzhou and Huangshan. It is an important part of ecological and cultural tourism corridors; thirdly, Yi County has a world-class tourism brand.
On December 2, 2021, the 24th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization announced that Xidi Village in Yixian County won the title of "World's Best Tourism Village"; fourth, the cultural tourism industry in Yixian County has a history of international cooperation, including China. Yixian Demonstration Zone Project of French Rural Tourism Cooperation, cooperation with internationally renowned enterprises, etc.
Located in the south of Anhui, Yi County is a national historical and cultural city, an important birthplace of Hui culture, and an excellent inheritance of Hui culture.
Yixian currently has 6 famous Chinese historical and cultural villages, 44 traditional Chinese villages and 81 intangible cultural heritages.
Among them, Xidi Village and Hongcun Village were included in the World Cultural Heritage List in 2000.
There are a large number of Ming and Qing folk houses, ancestral halls, archways and other ancient buildings in Yixian County, and the ecological environment is excellent.
The county's forest coverage rate reaches 84.8%. The cultural heritage and natural landscape complement each other and complement each other. It has always been a paradise for tourists and photographers.
Yixian not only has a history of stepping into the world stage of cultural tourism, but also has solid measures during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Yixian will vigorously implement supply-side structural reforms and build a modern product system that meets new market demands.
Promote the integration of culture and tourism, develop new vacation formats represented by homestays and rural resorts, and help Huangshan City build an ecologically internationalized world-class leisure and vacation destination city.
Promote the development of global tourism in depth, and build a new space for the development of new cultural tourism.
Efforts will be made to build a spatial pattern of cultural tourism and sports industry development in Yixian County with "one core gathering, two wings flying together, three areas activating, and global development".
In particular, in response to the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development of the cultural tourism industry in the county, Yixi Northwest will be elevated to a strategic level, and a national eco-tourism demonstration area will be actively established.
"Maintain positive innovation and accelerate the modernization of cultural and tourism governance systems and governance capabilities." Wang Ji said, combining with the construction of tourism agglomeration areas, explore the innovation of the management system of tourism functional areas.
Vigorously implement the project of "Recruiting Talents and Introducing Talents" to realize the modernization of governance capabilities.
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