On August 30th, the 6th China Health and Senior Care Conference was held in 
Huangshui Town, a summer resort in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, southwest 
China's Chongqing Municipality. 

Hosted by the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and the 
Chongqing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, the conference sought to 
promote the development of health care industry in the Wuling Mountain Range 
whose lush forests boasting rich health benefits.

At the conference, Shizhu signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with ten 
brother cities in the Wuling Mountain Range, which will work together to build 
a Chinese ecological health resort to promote the region's forest-based health 
care benefits.

The provincial political consultative conferences of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing 
and Guizhou reached the "Shizhu Consensus". They will jointly enhance the 
region's green ecological value, promote the ecological cooperative management 
of the Wuling Mountain Range, and build a forest health care industrial cluster.

Located in the east of Chongqing, Shizhu is also on the south bank of the 
Yangtze River and in the heart of the Three Gorges Reservoir area. The county 
enjoys a pleasant ecology and climate. With a forest area of 188,000 hectares, 
the county has a forest coverage rate of 62.7 percent.

Under the trend of general health care, Shizhu has built on its natural 
resource endowment with proactive explorations and practices in the field of 
health care. Through constant efforts in developing health care industry and 
nurturing health care economy, Shizhu has been rated as one of the top 100 
Chinese counties with sustainable development ability in the health care 
industry. The county's health care economy accounts for half of its total 
economic output.

Shizhu has created several national 4A-level ecological tourism scenic spots, 
such as Tianting Qianye grassland, the original forest of Dafengbao, and 
Longevity Hill of Women Soldiers Village. Shizhu has made into the list of the 
first batch of national forest health bases, and has basically completed the 
development of a national health tourism consumption destination.

In the past six years, Shizhu's health care industry has grown from scratch, 
and extended the seasonal availability and improved the quality of its 
services, according to the Publicity Department of Shizhu County. The branding 
effects of the conference is fully manifested here, lending steam to the 
upgrading of the county's health care industry.

Shizhu's diversified health care project formats have grown into a booming 
cluster, which provide useful experience and valuable ideas for the development 
of health care industry in Chongqing and even the whole of China. The fruitful 
results of the health and senior care conference in Shizhu are benefiting more 
and more partners.

Source: The Publicity Department of Shizhu County