BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The 2019 Jiangxi Tourism Industry Development Conference will be held in Yichun City, East China's Jiangxi province on June 5.
The annual event is an important platform for tourism cooperation of Jiangxi Province. Yichun, one of the most picturesque cities in the province is chosen as the host city this year.
Located in the northwestern part of the province, Yichun City has ten counties and three special districts with a population of 6.1 million in its territory, which covers about 18,700 square kilometers. Its scenery is repeatedly praised in the poetry of Tang Dynasty, a great treasure of Chinese literature.
With a history of more than 2,200 years, Yichun boasted 4,503 historical and cultural sites. The ancient tomb of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in Jing'an County was selected into China's top 10 archaeological discoveries in 2017, and the Wucheng Cultural Site in Zhangshu County has broken the long-standing conclusion that "the Yin-Shang culture in 3,800 years ago didn't exist in the area south of Yantze River". In addition, the city also possesses a number of red tourism sites, including that of the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
Moon culture, Zen culture, and traditional Chinese medicine culture have taken root in this scenic city, with distinctive features and rich connotations. Known as the "City of the Moon", Yichun has held 12 consecutive Moon Culture Tourism Festivals. It also has two famous Zen Buddhist temples, Baofeng Temple and Baizhang Temple, and three Zen Buddhism branches, whose influence has spread to Japan, the ROK, the DPRK, Vietnam and other countries. As for traditional Chinese medicine, Zhangshu County has been regarded as the "center of traditional Chinese medicine" since 1,800 years ago.
As one of the first Healthy Cities in China, Yichun has three national-level ecological counties, 28 national and provincial forest parks, nature reserves and tourist attractions. The national 5A-level tourist scenic spot Mingyue Mountain in Yichun City has a negative oxygen ion content of more than 70,000 per cubic centimeter, which is 35 times of the national standard and 70 times of the world standard.
The selenium-rich hot spring makes the city's Wentang Township a famous place to spend vacation and retirement life. The temperature of the disease-preventing water remains at 68°C-72°C all the time. There are also other hot springs of good quality in Yichun City, namely the Tangli hot spring in Tonggu County, the Jiuling forest hot spring in Jing'an County, etc. (Edited by Li Wenxin, liwenxin@xinhua.org)
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