Guilin’s green mountains, beautiful waters, strange caves, and beautiful rocks will make you linger and unforgettable for a lifetime; Guilin is not only a famous scenic tourist city and a famous historical and cultural city in China, but also has a profound cultural heritage. It will allow you to listen to its stories that have been passed down through the ages in its long history and recall its endless chapters. Guilin's landscape is one of the top ten scenic spots in China. It is a thick book, magnificent, broad and profound; it is a long song, full of brilliance and lasting charm; it is a large painting, extremely beautiful and graceful. The best in the world. During the few days you come to Guilin, please listen quietly, see more, swim slowly, and taste carefully. I believe that the new Guilin and new tourism will definitely bring you new enjoyment.
Guilin has been famous for its beautiful scenery since ancient times. Since the reform and opening up, it has become a world-famous scenic tourist city and a famous historical and cultural city. Its annual reception of domestic and foreign tourists has exceeded 10 million, including more than one million inbound tourists, ranking among the top 5 large and medium-sized cities in the country. As the "World's Best Tourist Destination City" recommended by the World Tourism Organization, Guilin has attracted the world's attention at the 2005 China Domestic Tourism Fair held in the city in April this year and the International Tourism Photography Festival in August. It has become a further improvement It is a good opportunity for Guilin’s influence and competitiveness in the domestic and foreign tourism industry.
“Build Guilin into a modern international tourist city with a more developed economy, a more prosperous culture, a more civilized society, a more beautiful environment, and a richer people.” This is the occasion of the new millennium, the Guilin Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government new goals set by the government.
Guilin, located in the northeastern part of Guangxi, has a population of 4.86 million (urban population of 721,600) and an area of ??27,800 square kilometers. The average annual temperature is 16.5℃-20.5℃, the forest coverage rate is 66.5%, the rainfall is abundant, the environment is beautiful, and the air is fresh. It is known as the most suitable place for human leisure, tourism and residence. Guilin is located at the southern end of the Hunan-Guangxi Corridor, bordering Guizhou Province and Yunnan Province to the northwest, Hunan Province to the north, Guangdong Province to the east, and Vietnam to the south. It has the geographical advantage of being backed by the Southwest and facing Southeast Asia. Guilin has beautiful mountains and clear waters, picturesque scenery, pleasant climate, developed information, railways and highways extending in all directions, and Liangjiang International Airport with nearly 100 international and domestic routes.
1. Guilin is named after the "forest of osmanthus trees". Its history can be traced back to the "Guilin County" established by Qin Shi Huang after he unified Lingnan in 214 BC. It is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2,000 years. There are rich ancient cultural sites. The Ling Canal built in the Qin Dynasty is one of the three famous water conservancy projects in ancient China, as famous as the ancient canal and Dujiangyan; the royal tombs in the Jingjiang Imperial City in the Ming Dynasty are currently the largest and best-preserved imperial cities and mausoleums in China. In addition, there is the Gongcheng Confucian Temple, known as "one of the four major Confucian temples in China"; the Xiangshan Temple in Quanzhou with a long history; and more than 3,000 cliff stone carvings from past dynasties, among which the "Guihai Forest of Steles" and "Xishan Cliff Carvings" are the most Famous. Over the long years, Guilin's beautiful mountains and rivers attracted countless literati, who wrote many popular poems and articles, and carved more than 2,000 stone carvings and wall inscriptions. These unique cultural landscapes made Guilin famous. He praised "traveling in the mountains is like reading history, and looking at mountains is like viewing paintings".
Guilin's landscape is famous for its "clear mountains, beautiful waters, strange caves and beautiful rocks", and is known as "the best landscape in the world". The unique landscape originates from the development of karst landforms. Guilin has formed magical peak forests, deep and magnificent caves and mysterious underground rivers. These special landforms are integrated with the Li River and the beautiful and charming pastoral scenery around it, forming a unique "Guilin landscape" that is famous both at home and abroad. The mountains here rise up from the plains in various shapes; the water of the Li River is winding and clear as a mirror; there are many caves in the mountains, with secluded and strange scenery, magnificent and spectacular; the strange rocks in the caves are uncanny and dazzling...
Among them, the best scenic spots include Reed Flute Cave, known as the "Palace of Nature's Art"; Elephant Trunk Mountain, the well-known city symbol of Guilin; and the tall and steep Diecai Mountain, Fubo Mountain, and Duxiu Peak; There is Zijiang, which is suitable for adventure and rafting; there is Maoer Mountain, which is 2142 meters above sea level and is known as the "No. 1 Peak in South China"; there is Yangshuo Big Banyan Tree Park where Liu Sanjie sang antiphonally and threw hydrangeas; there is Longsheng Hot Spring, a resort and health resort; The magnificent Longji Rice Terraces; the Lijiang River, the longest and most beautiful gallery in the world with "water surrounding the green mountains and green mountains, floating mountains on the water". In particular, the newly developed scenic spots and products in recent years include Yinzi Cave, "a wonder of the world's karst caves"; Gudong Scenic Area, "a model of ecological and environmental protection"; Utopia, a "wonderland on earth"; Yulong River Scenic Area, "the original and natural Little Li River"; and The two rivers and four lakes that are comparable to the water system surrounding Venice; the Xionghu Villa, a "wild animal breeding base"; and the Impression Liu Sanjie and the Dream Lijiang River, which are popular with Chinese and foreign tourists at night, and so on. It is a treasure of tourism resources in China and even the world. Reed Flute Cave, Diecai Mountain, Fubo Mountain, Qixing Park, Paradise, Lijiang River, etc. have been rated as 4A-level scenic spots by the country.
Guilin also has rich and colorful ethnic minority cultures. There are 37 ethnic minorities in the territory, including Miao, Yao, Dong and Zhuang, accounting for 8.5% of the city's total population, and each has its own unique ethnic customs. The combination of the beautiful Guilin Mountains and the rich folk customs makes the charming landscape more vivid and the pure folk customs more beautiful. Liu Sanjie Landscape Garden and Ethnic Minority Customs Garden in Guilin City are a microcosm of Guangxi's ethnic minority culture.
2. Guilin is a famous tourist city in my country, and its beautiful ecological environment is its biggest asset to its reputation. To this end, successive governments of Guilin have listed environmental protection as the top priority for economic development, vigorously promoted circular economy and clean production, and ensured Guilin's beautiful ecological environment and harmonious social development. In 1998, it took the lead in setting the goal of creating an environmentally friendly model city in the western region. . Today, Guilin has achieved remarkable results in environmental protection; the roads are wider, the city is greener and more beautiful, and the urban green space coverage rate has reached 39.5%; the water is clear, the air is pure, and the air, water, and acoustic environment quality of the entire city has been maintained at 39.5%. Excellent level or above. For more than 300 days a year, the air quality has reached the first-level standard set by the national environmental protection department. The Li River has become the river with the best water quality in China's cities. The water quality compliance rate in surface water functional areas, the centralized disposal rate of hazardous waste, and the harmless treatment of domestic garbage The rate reached 100%, and the centralized treatment rate of urban domestic sewage reached 75.52%, making it one of the five cities with the best environmental quality in the country.
Because Guilin pays attention to the relationship between landscape environmental protection and economic development, the urban environment is clean and the air is fresh. The urban area is "surrounded by thousands of peaks and wild, and one river embraces the city flow". It has a unique "scenery in the city, The charm of the landscape city is "the city in the scenery". "I would like to be a Guilin person, not a god" has become the slogan of more and more outsiders coming to Guilin.
3. In recent years, Guilin’s tourism resources have been effectively integrated, and the Greater Guilin Tourism Circle has achieved remarkable results. In the past, Guilin's tourism resources were concentrated in the traditional scenic spots (spots) of "three mountains, two caves and one river". Outside the urban area of ??Guilin, Xing'an Lingqu is known as "the Great Wall in the north and the Lingqu in the south"; Mao'er Mountain is known as "the first peak in South China"; Longsheng's Longji Rice Terraces, where all ethnic groups are autonomous, are known as "One of the best in the world"; Ziyuan County also presents a Danxia geological landform that is completely different from Guilin City. Integrating county tourism resources and building a greater Guilin tourism circle is a highlight of Guilin tourism. What has left a deep impression on tourists is not only Guilin's beautiful landscape, but also Yangshuo's "Impression. Liu Sanjie", "West Street Rose Valentine's Day", "Fishing Festival", Danxia City's "River Lantern Song Festival", Gongcheng The "Peach Blossom Festival" and "Persimmon Festival" in Lingchuan, the "Gudong Red Maple Festival" in Lingchuan, the "Ocean Golden Autumn Ginkgo Festival", the "Red Clothes Festival" in Longsheng, etc., constitute a new tourism feature of Guilin tourism.
Guilin tourism has thus formed an urban tourism sector based on Guilin urban area (including Lingchuan and Lingui) from the original single sector; with Yangshuo as the center, including the southern counties The leisure and holiday farmhouse ecotourism section of the southern area; the historical, cultural, Danxia adventure and ethnic customs tourism section of the northern area, centered on Xing'an, including the northern counties. Three major sectors form the basic framework of the Guilin tourism circle. Guilin tourism has also gradually developed from pure sightseeing a few years ago to a diversified tourism that integrates sightseeing, leisure vacation, exhibition, fitness, entertainment and shopping.
Today, Guilin’s urban area and counties have more than 200 major scenic spots (spots) and more than 60 tourist-star hotels. There are more than 1,100 tourist reception vehicles of various types. There are nearly 7,000 translators and tour guides in multiple languages. Guilin Liangjiang International Airport has opened hundreds of domestic and international routes. There are railway trains to major tourist cities across the country. Expressways and high-grade roads extend in all directions, making transportation convenient and fast. It has the ability to hold large-scale conferences and exhibitions, and has successfully held large-scale international and domestic conferences such as the Boao Forum for Asia, the Domestic Tourism Fair, and the 14th National Book Fair.
4. In sync with Guilin's large-scale urban construction and transformation, Guilin is deliberately sculpting another face of the landscape city and shaping the image of Guilin's landscape city at night. It has carried out night view project construction and formed mountain lighting, waterfront Interface lighting, road lighting, commercial lighting, square lighting, scenic area lighting, bridge lighting and other night landscapes all together form the colorful, fiery, dreamlike night Guilin landscape image.
As a famous tourist city, Guilin took the lead in launching the "toilet revolution" in China. More than 800 newly renovated public toilets are open to the public free of charge. This is a revolutionary move. Guilin City has formulated the "star standards" for toilets, successfully held the first large-scale tourism city seminar in China with the theme of "Toilet Revolution", and adopted the "Guilin *** Knowledge" on "Toilet Revolution". The "toilet revolution" actually reflects the level of civilization and management of a city in terms of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Guilin increased its influence through the "toilet revolution".
Guilin was the first in the world to operate free buses. The 110 new buses run on eight free routes connecting the city's main arterial roads and scenic spots, carrying 200,000 passengers a day, providing great convenience for citizens' travel and tourists' sightseeing, and have been praised by passengers.
With the in-depth development of urban construction, a garden city and environmentally friendly city with complete functions, complete facilities, clean and beautiful streets, beautiful environment, pleasant landscape, and unique cultural connotation is being formed. Guilin City, the world Wonderland will show more charming charm.
5. In order to safeguard the legitimate consumption rights of tourists and establish a good image of the tourism industry, in recent years, the Guilin Municipal Government has carried out scientific and effective monitoring and management of the tourist shopping market that used to be chaotic, and implemented A series of effective management measures have enabled our tourism and shopping market to continue to standardize and rationalize, winning praise from tourists.
Today, as long as you walk into a large-scale tourist shopping mall, the first thing you will see is a wide variety of tourist products with higher grades, reliable quality and reasonable prices. The shopping guide's product display and explanation and effective promotion of tourism products often bring tourists a certain spiritual and cultural enjoyment. In some large-scale tourist shopping malls in tourist areas, we have seen tourists leaving the mall happily. Shopping stores bring tourists not only the satisfaction of buying tourist products, but also the satisfaction of cultural knowledge. From this point of view, our shopping stores are no longer the simple commercial operations of the past, but focus on being closely connected with tourism culture. In addition, as long as we visit more tourist areas and tourist shopping stores, it is not difficult to see that our tourist and shopping environment has been greatly improved. Compared with the "scattered, chaotic, poor, and small" environment in the past, Nowadays, all designated tourist shopping stores have achieved large-scale operations. The 2001 National Off-site Meeting to Combat Counterfeiting of Tourism Products was held in Guilin, which meant that the governance, standardization and management of Guilin's tourism shopping market set a model nationwide.
Guilin is beautiful and mysterious, and its characteristics of "seven more and three less" are also summarized with joy by Chinese and foreign tourists. That is: there are many mountains, many caves, many newly developed attractions, many hotels, many tourist products, many tourists, and many tourism employees; there are few high-rise buildings, few factories, and less pollution. Through traveling in Guilin, I believe you will feel the same way and have a better understanding of Guilin.
The landscape of Guilin is natural and beautiful, and the people of Guilin are warm and hospitable. Friends from afar, please breathe more of the fresh air of Guilin, drink more of the sweet spring water of Guilin, and visit more new places in Guilin. In the developed scenic spots, taste more of Guilin's local snacks and buy more of Guilin's famous and high-quality local products. In this way, you will have more, more beautiful and better impressions of Guilin, and thus gain wonderful feelings and enjoyment.