OREANDA-NEWS. September 16, 2011. New investment for upgrade of six excellent scenic spots in Chongqing is accumulatively 4.6 billion, and remarkable achievements have been made in various aspects such as construction of the scenic spots, improvement of transportation and environment, hotel accommodation and cruise building.

It is heard that three cruises, namely Century Glory, Gold 1 and Changjiang 2, have been put into operation successively for travel in the Gorges of the Yangtze River since the beginning of this year. The three cruises rank the top in the world in both functional orientation and facility instrument.

At present, Gold system mainly constructed by Chongqing Travel Group is paying close attention to building and predicts to produce 10 cruises subsequently. In addition, unique cruises of the Three Gorges and little Three Gorges are also successively put into operation, and so far, 37 cruises have been built.

According to introduction, the luxury cruises have activated a tourist market of the Three Gorges. According to data display, it can be concluded that tourists and created income are both increased by more than 30% of the same period in the last year. The flowing scenery of Changjiang thereby begins to take shape.

Additionally, Chongqing Longxin Property Group also settles in Wushan and plans RMB 3 billion within five years to build a Three Gorges International Travel Holiday Resort project, which integrates a travel luxury hotel, a property-type country house, a golf course and enjoyment for rains and clouds on Wushan Mountains. Meanwhile, Dachang ancient town is brought into the travel route of the little Three Gorges to reinforce cooperation with Wuxi and Shenglongjia scenic spots; therefore, a travel loop forms to realize resource complementation and mutual flowing of visitors.

World natural heritage scenic spot of Wulong Karst was honored to be a 5A class scenic spot in March, 2011, another gold-lettered signboard of the Tiansheng Sanqiao following the world heritage. According to the introduction, there are only five shuangliao gold-lettered signboards all over the country, which symbolize that a quantum jump is achieved in the aspect of building 5A class scenic spot of the country.
A remarkable action show of “Wulong Impression” also enters a preparation stage. At present, Wulong completes construction with RMB 0.15 billion investment according to the objective of trial performance on the National Day, and 95% of the main engineering has been finished. Show area, service area, road to the show and park are substantially completed, performance rehearsing on the spot is performed by actors who have entered the show area, and advertisement work for marketing is also strongly promoted.

In the past, all kinds of happy farmhouses and mass of unauthorized constructions were full on the way to Tiankeng Difeng in Fengjie, which seriously reduced quality of the scenic spot and worsened moods of the tourists. However, nowadays, Fengjie County and the parties concerned got a breakthrough to implement removal of the unauthorized constructions; totally, more than 60,000 authorized constructions are removed. Now it is freshness and beauty which accompany with you to enter the scenic spot on the way.
It is known that Fengjie County has finished projects such as oil performance from gateway of super highway to Baidicheng road, removal for dock of Baidicheng, loyalty square of Baidicheng scenic spot, front and back Chushibiao and inscriptions of evaluation from later generation. And projects for maintaining ancient construction in Baidi Temple and reforming classic-imitating construction in Baidicheng are substantially finished.
In Tiankeng scenic spot, Fengjie County has set up nine comprehensive development items such as park of Tienkeng Difeng scenic spot, connection channel, walking road, round-trip walking road and Tiankeng electromobile sightseeing loop and started layouts for items such as sightseeing platform at the top of Tiankeng, sightseeing elevator of Tiankeng, sightseeing ropeway of Difeng and elevator.

Since this year, Hechuan District closely connects the total target of “World Famous Travel Brand, Holy Land Worshipped by Europeans” to further get new achievement. From January to August, 1,880,000 visitors visited to the district, and income from tourism reached RMB 248 million, which increased respectively by 36.8% and 35.3% year on year.
Excellent construction in Fishing City mainly focuses on projection and development for historical relics. It is known that nearly RMB 900 million has been invested to construction items of the Fishing City scenic spot; projects of Gate Rescuing of Huguo Temple, Show of Stone Carving Art, Maintenance of Scenic Spot, Regulation of Environment, Treatment for Water Body, Reformation of Yucheng Road, Reformation of Residence, Park Construction and Memorial Archway Design of “Dudiao Zhongyuan” are completed on schedule; a breakthrough is made on historic preservation of the Fishing City.

At present, nearly RMB 0.5 billion has been invested to Puling District and used for removing the authorized constructions and shops around the main scenic spot of Baiheliang; according to a scientific plan, a large green area is constructed so that the supporting facilities of the Baiheliang scenic spot can be more complete and the whole travel condition can taken on a new look.
It is reported that investment for construction of supporting facilities in the Baiheliang excellent scenic spot are accumulatively RMB 0.64 billion, which accounts for 64% of annual plan.
Meanwhile, Puling District has worked out total plan for tourist area of Wuling Mountain and proposes functional zones and space layouts with spirits of “One District, One Heart and Five Groups”.

Due to rescuing protecting and maintaining operation of the Thousand-Hand Guanyin, excellent construction for the stone carving is achieved. When the Thousand-Hand Guanyin is protected and developed in Dazu County, grant investments are put into reformation of appearance of the roads in the scenic spot, so that stone carving scenic spot in Dazu highlights its styles and futures.
At the same time, Dazu cooperates with China Central Television (CCTV) to make a documentary Thousand-Hand Appearance-Reforming Record, which is taken as China lithic historic preservation project No. 1, by State Cultural Relic Bureau for comprehensive deepening and give rise to strong response of audiences.