Two Bases in Yangjiang Designated as Provincial Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration Points

Recently, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the list of 2019 Provincial Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration Towns and Demonstration Points. Our city's Guangdong Yunshan Green Lake Tourism Resort Co., Ltd. and Haizi Island Haile Tourism Co., Ltd. have been selected.

White egrets flutter, a long river and blue sky… This is the pleasant scenery of Guangdong Yunshan Green Lake Tourism Resort Co., Ltd., which was recently designated as a Provincial Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration Point. The company is located beside the Na Ma Water Reservoir in Gangmei Town, Yangchun City, with a total area of more than 2600 acres. Currently, the base is completing the agricultural flower sea and 300-acre agricultural picking tourism project. The implementation of these projects has also created employment opportunities for local laborers and increased the income of villagers.

Villagers: 'I make breakfast, feed the pigs, and then come to work.' This job is very good, and I earn 100 yuan a day.

Chairman of Guangdong Yunshan Green Lake Tourism Resort Co., Ltd., Li Jianwei: 'Now we have created employment opportunities for more than 100 villagers and increased income by more than 3 million. We utilize the tourism platform to promote agricultural development, and utilize agriculture to promote tourism development. Through this way, we develop the rural tourism industry.'

Company officials said that the project utilizes the protection and utilization of existing ecological resources, combined with local characteristics, to open up hot spring tourism, sightseeing agriculture, catering homestays, and other leisure and entertainment projects, creating a rural tourism base.

Chairman of Guangdong Yunshan Green Lake Tourism Resort Co., Ltd., Li Jianwei: 'This year we plan to have flower festivals in spring, lotus festivals in summer, duck delicacies festivals in autumn, and mandarin orange culture festivals in winter. We will use distinctive cultural activities to promote tourism development.'