Guangxi Daxin holds Longan Carnival to promote Tourism Development

Guangxi News Network Daxin August 12 (Reporter Xu Qianlei) August 12,2016 Damei Daxin Longan Carnival activities started in Daxin County. The activity will end from August 11 to August 15. During the activity, Daxin County will launch a series of colorful rural tourism activities around the Longan Carnival.

According to introduction, this longan carnival activity takes "Dragon 'Youdetian·' Eye 'all over the world" as the theme, the activity covers artistic performance, tourism, sports competition, folk custom display, tourism promotion and other activities. The specific contents include a series of activities such as bicycle enthusiasts cycling around the city, longan picking fun competition, visiting characteristic villages, ethnic style artistic performances, longan electric beer festival, longan carnival music collection, etc.

On the site of the launching ceremony, in addition to the traditional dragon dance performance, Daxin County also invited Guangxi TV program host Guangguang, Guangxi Zhuang folk song queen Huang Chunyan, singer Bao Chaozhi, face-changing song Wang Weidong, feather balance performer Zhen Yue, young singers Li Baolong, Tang Yifang and other big celebrities and Daxin native kapok group to perform on the same stage, wonderful artistic performances won continuous applause on the scene. At the same time, known as the "Guangxi Code King", Guangguang also invited the audience to guess the code interaction on the stage, with longan as the prize to detonate the upsurge. At the event site, Ms. Li, a tourist from Nanning, told reporters: "Take advantage of this longan carnival activity to visit Daxin, not only to enjoy the beautiful scenery, but also to pick and taste fresh longan, feeling really good."

Daxin County is one of the six longan production bases in China, the origin of Kudingcha, known as "Longan Township" and "Kudingcha Township" reputation. In recent years, Daxin County has made every effort to promote the construction of Sino-Vietnamese Detian·Banyao International Tourism Cooperation Zone and create a unique border customs tourism belt. At present, Daxin County has successfully built 5 ecological towns at autonomous region level, 14 ecological villages and 89 municipal ecological villages. It also invested more than 20 million yuan to build an ecological rural tourism demonstration belt of "village in forest, courtyard in green, people in scenery". Nowadays, rural tourist attractions such as Nongshatun, Encheng Nawangtun and Quanming Xinxing in Taocheng Town have become the best holiday and leisure places. From January to July 2016, the county received 3.1844 million tourists, an increase of 16.37% over the same period last year. Among them, domestic tourists were 3.1166 million person-times, an increase of 16.46% compared with the same period last year. The number of overseas tourists was 67,800, an increase of 12.25% over the same period last year. Foreign exchange reached US $24.5204 million, up 20.46% from the same period last year. Comprehensive tourism revenue was 2.583 billion yuan, up 14.34% from the same period last year.