"In front of the Po'e Mountain, the jade-like river water flows to the east, 
and a literatus is standing at the bow in the distance." (by Liu Zongyuan, Tang 
Dynasty, The Reply to Cao Shiyu's Letter When He Passing Xiangxian County). 
Under the Po'e Mountain, the millennial ancient town and white sand with snail 
is the cultural tourist IP newly cultivated in Yufeng District, Liuzhou City. 
As the core area of inheriting historic culture in Liuzhou City, Yufeng 
District deeply digs its own resource endowment, strives for innovation and 
changes while adhering to the tradition, and comprehensively promotes the 
cultural tourism industry in its jurisdiction to take a new step of 
high-quality development.

The number of tourists in 2021 was 8,966,800, a year-on-year increase of 
16.43%; Tourism consumption registered 10.181 billion yuan, a year-on-year 
increase of 17%. In the first half of 2022, the total number of tourists and 
total tourism consumption ranked first in all counties and districts of Liuzhou 
City. Yufeng District has successively won the honorary titles of the Hometown 
of Chinese Folk Culture and Art and the Demonstration District of Ecologic 
Tourism throughout Guangxi, according to the Publicity Department of Yufeng 
District.

Highlight the background color with culture as the spirit 

Yufeng District is located in the south of Liuzhou City, and is the birthplace 
of Liujiang men - one of the earliest ancient humans in China, with a long 
historical accumulation and abundant national cultural connotations. There are 
11 national 4A-level tourist attractions in the jurisdiction, including 
Liyufeng with mountain peaks and green pond, Bailiandong Cave Science Museum 
with a long history, the century-old Liuzhou Industrial Museum and Liuzhou 
River Snail Rice Noodle Industrial Park where brands gather. Liyong Town and 
Baisha Town have an elegant natural scenery, including the lawn at the river 
beach, the birds in the sandbank, the flying waterfalls, the flowing springs, 
the clear stream, and the caves. Yufeng District fully utilizes and inherits 
the resource advantages of Liuzhou's historical and cultural core area, 
integrates in multiple dimensions, and constantly highlights the gold business 
cards of "snail culture", "folk song culture" and "prehistoric culture".

Strengthen development while taking projects as key point 

To achieve high-quality development, the project support is indispensable for 
the cultural tourism industry. Yufeng District insists on taking the project as 
the key point, promotes the construction of cultural tourism projects at a high 
level, actively carries out the investment attraction of cultural tourism 
industry, and cultivates a batch of cultural tourism projects with strong 
driving ability and wide radiation range through attracting investment and 
major support. It has successively built the new museum of Liuzhou Bailiandong 
Cave Science Museum, the exhibition hall of Liuzhou Bauhinia Cultural 
Creativity Gallery, and Snail Street in Yaobu Ancient Town in Liuzhou, 
introduced the 5G+VR science and technology theme park - Xiangyun Snail Park, 
and accelerated the projects of Yufeng Sports Park, Liuzhou Wolong Lake 
International Tourist Resort, and Longdu Tourist Road, injecting new power and 
adding new vitality to the economic development in the jurisdiction, and 
exploring new spaces. 

Add vitality focusing on features 

River snail rice noodle is a street delicacy in Liuzhou City. In 2016, Yufeng 
District took the lead in eating crabs, and moved street food into the park for 
large-scale and brand production, to build the Liuzhou River Snail Rice Noodle 
Industrial Park. At present, the park has introduced 48 enterprises engaged in 
river snail rice noodle, with a daily production and marketing of nearly 4 
million bags, making it the largest producing area of bagged river snail rice 
noodle in China. Taking industry as the carrier, the park will turn into a 
scenic spot, and change diners into tourists, while Yufeng District will deeply 
cultivate the river snail rice noodle culture and launch four cultural 
experience tourist routes for river snail rice noodle, namely traceability 
tour, experience tour, country tour, etc. to fully display the historical 
origin, cultural connotation and development history of Liuzhou river snail 
rice noodle, and to constantly enhance the popularity and influence of Liuzhou 
river snail rice noodle industry, and at the same time, constantly release its 
cultural charm.

Source: The Publicity Department of Yufeng District

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