Xinglong Town, fengjie county, the Hometown of Tourism

Xinglong town is located at the junction of Chongqing and Hubei, the heart of Chongqing's east gate-the peerless spectacle Tiankeng Ground Fissure Scenic Area. It covers an area of 347.23 square kilometers, ranking first in fengjie county. The altitude is between 2 1 1-2046 meters, which belongs to a typical three-dimensional climate, with snow in winter for three months and cool and pleasant summer. * * * 2 1 village, 2 neighborhood committees and 364 cooperatives with a total population of 50,600. Small towns have a construction area of 2 square kilometers and a permanent population of 22,370. Provincial highway 2 1-20 1 runs through the territory and connects with national highway 3 18. It starts from Enshi, Hubei Province in the east and reaches Wanzhou, Chongqing in the west, which can be connected with the Yangtze River Golden Waterway respectively. It is a very important gateway to and from eastern Chongqing, a border trade center, material distribution center and transportation hub at the junction of three counties and cities in Chongqing and Hubei. Especially with the completion of the Yangtze River Bridge, the opening of Wujiawan Tunnel and Shiruguan Tunnel, the completion of the 3-to-2 reform of Feng 'en Highway, and the construction of Wan Yi Railway and Wan Yi Expressway, the location advantage of Xinglong Town will become more prominent.

Xinglong Town's unique karst landform and vertical climate in mountainous areas have formed a magnificent, peculiar, steep and beautiful Xinglong landscape. There are peerless wonders-tiankeng, ground fissures, ingenious dry Kuimen, majestic and steep maze river, Taoyuan River, Jiupan River and stalagmite River scenic spots, Nitrate Tiankeng, picturesque Maocaoba alpine natural grassland and so on.

The coverage rate of forest resources in Xinglong Town is 75%, and there is a large area of virgin forest. The common tree species are pine, fir, poplar and cypress, and the more precious ones are ginkgo and cedar. There are very rich rare Chinese herbal medicines such as Gastrodia elata, Fritillaria, Codonopsis pilosula and health foods such as kiwi fruit, honey and konjac, which have great development prospects. Mineral resources are mainly coal, gypsum and pyrite; Rivers in the town are widely distributed, with stable flow, large drop and extremely rich water resources.

Xinglong Town is a place where Tujia and Han people live together. China culture and Tujia culture blend with each other and have their own characteristics. There are Tujia costumes, folk songs, swing dances, lion dances, flying dragons, sacrifices to gods and other national cultural activities. Hand-waving dance is an ancient dance popular in Tujia nationality, which includes more than 70 actions such as hunting, military and agricultural banquets. It has a bright rhythm, beautiful movements and simple dance, and is deeply loved by Tujia people. In the most solemn traditional festival of Tujia nationality-Sheba Festival, Tujia men, women and children should sing rocking songs and dance to worship their ancestors and welcome the new year.

In recent years, Xinglong Town, with its unique advantages in tourism resources, has paid close attention to tourism development and highlighted the leading position of tourism. Organized a series of large-scale activities at the city and county levels: in August 2003, "Prince of the Sky-Adili's Extreme Journey (Tiankeng Exploration)" was well-known at home and abroad and made a sensation; On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2003, the balloon rafting activity of "Happy Heroes Leaping over the New Three Gorges" hosted by Wang, a famous host of CCTV, made the atmosphere of the activity unprecedentedly warm. June 5438 +2004 10, "Jiapeng fighters crossed the first pit in the world". On June 2, 2008, 10, 23 warriors parachuted in Fengjie Tiankeng, which turned the sky upside down and shocked thousands. It has also hosted municipal competitions such as "Tiankeng Sewing Cup First Gateball Championship for the Elderly" and "City Hongsheng Cup First Gateball Championship for the Young and Middle-aged", and paid close attention to the construction of small towns, the supporting construction of tourism infrastructure and the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure based on tourism development, and achieved a good development trend. The town's economy has developed rapidly and healthily, and it has been awarded the first prize of two civilization constructions by the county party committee and government for three consecutive years, and it has been listed as 65438+ by Chongqing. It was rated as "the fitness activity of hundreds of millions of farmers in Chongqing", and was named as "excellent green small town" and "sanitary small town".