About the World Rural Tourism Town

 
The Conference Site at the Town of World Rural Tourism

The Conference Site at the Town of World Rural Tourism

 

World Rural Tourism Town

The World Rural Tourism Town is located in Huzhou Qianshanyang Tourism Resort, Balidian Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, covering an area of approximately three square kilometres. The town is only a 3-minute drive away from the soon-to-be-completed Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High-speed Railway Station, connecting Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Hefei and other Chinese cities as one and complementing each other with their unique characteristics and diverse strengths. Beyond the advantageous geographical conditions, the World Rural Tourism Town is also rich in rural culture and rural tourism resources such as sericulture, silk, ancient villages and farming culture, it thus became a tourism-oriented town in Zhejiang Province, China.

The World Rural Tourism Town is composed of four blocks: the Conference Site Town, the Millennium Lucun Village, the Source of Silk and the Land of Fish and Rice. It is focused on the development of six international rural industries, including:

  1. International rural conference vacation

  2. International rural homestay and healthcare

  3. International rural tourism of traveling on the water

  4. International rural cultural creativity

  5. International rural sea of flowers & farming

  6. International rural education training

The town has also devoted efforts into creating “the Top 10 Landscapes”: the Rural Light, the Ripples in the Moonlight, the World Flower Sea, Lucun Garden, Lucun Water Street, Lucun Academy, the Antique World, Four Ancient Bridges of “the Shen Family”, the Rural Tourism School and the Source of Silk. Nature resource wise, the town is abundant in water resources and boasts numbers of unique sceneries. For example, the naturally formed “Ten Islands“: Site Island, Love Island, Shimmer Island, Global Island, Joyous land, Lulu Island, Plain Lodge Island, Flower Stream Island, Beautiful Island and Relic Island.

The Millenium Lucun Village

The Millenium Lucun Village

World Rural Tourism Conference Site Hotel – Rural Light

With the international homestay cluster, the source of the world's silk, the beauty of the millennium Lucun village and the unique charm of water village style in the south of the Yangtze River, the World Rural Tourism Town is now committed to becoming a model blueprint of the world’s rural tourism to gradually forming the world’s first town of rural tourism, making a contribution to the world's rural revitalisation and global poverty reduction.

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