The Exploration and Practice of "Yellow River Story" in Shanxi

Source: China News Network

Taiyuan, January 20, China News Network Title: The Exploration and Practice of the "Yellow River Story" in Shanxi

Author Liu Xiaohong

The Yellow River Basin in Shanxi has a profound historical and cultural heritage, revolutionary cultural relics and red cultural heritage, colorful folk cultural resources, rich tourism resources and strong characteristics, and is an important bearer of Chinese culture display and promotion. In this regard, how to achieve the deep integration of culture and tourism by protecting, inheriting and carrying forward the Yellow River culture has become an important proposition for Shanxi to promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River cultural tourism belt in recent years.

Shanxi Province is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Yellow River flows through Xinzhou, Lüliang, Linfen, Yuncheng 4 cities and 19 counties, a total of 965 kilometers. At present, there are 193 A-class scenic spots in the Yellow River Basin of Shanxi, and there are about 140 tourism resources with development prospects in the four cities along the Yellow River.

Based on the rich cultural and tourism resources and the unique conditions for the construction of the Yellow River cultural tourism belt, Shanxi intends to build three Yellow River cultural tourism belts in accordance with the cultural characteristics and geographical distribution of the Yellow River Basin, the Yellow River Cultural Protection and Inheritance Corridor, the Fenhe-Shushui River Basin High-quality Development Corridor, and the Qinhe River Basin Farming-Handicraft Culture Protection and Inheritance Corridor, connecting the commercial and trade culture of Gudu Ancient Town, the Yellow River Water Conservancy Culture, and the Qinhe Ancient Castle Group with unique oriental characteristics.

Around the above three cultural tourism belts, Shanxi has carried out a series of practices with the integrated development of cultural tourism as the core.

The reporter learned from the Department of Culture and Tourism of Shanxi Province on the 20th that with the Yellow River Basin as the main trunk, Shanxi has successively issued a series of policy plans such as the "Shanxi Yellow River Plate Tourism Development Master Plan" to provide a strong legal guarantee for the protection, inheritance and promotion of the Yellow River culture; and constantly innovate the path of the intangible cultural heritage protection model, pioneer and vigorously implement the "Rural Cultural Memory Project", and promote the protection and inheritance of the regional cultural heritage of the Yellow River Basin in Shanxi Province.

In recent years, Shanxi has continuously created and carried out fine literary and artistic creations and activities around the theme of The Yellow River culture, such as the dance epic "Yellow River", the symphonic suite "Yellow River Mural", etc., and at the same time, through the holding of cultural tourism festival brand activities such as "Shanxi Tourism Development Conference" and "Dahe Civilization Tourism Forum", the "root" and "soul" of Yellow River culture have been shaped.

All along, Shanxi has adhered to the in-depth integration of culture and tourism, played the role of tourism carrier, and fully integrated the Jinshang spirit, Taihang spirit, Lvliang spirit and Youyu spirit, which are deeply rooted in the Yellow River culture, into the construction of Shanxi National All-area Tourism Demonstration Zone and the forging process of the Yellow River tourism sector.

In terms of promoting the construction of the Yellow River Basin National Global Tourism Demonstration Zone, since 2016, Shanxi has successively included 2 cities and 18 counties (most of which are located in the Yellow River Basin) to be included in the creation unit of the National Global Tourism Demonstration Zone, and in 2019, Shanxi was approved to become the 8th provincial-level national full-scale tourism demonstration zone creation unit in the country.

In terms of forging the Yellow River tourism sector, Shanxi has started construction of the "Yellow River No. 1" tourist highway in 2018, which runs through the four cities of Xinzhou, Lvliang, Linfen and Yuncheng in the province, connects more than 60 scenic spots such as Laoniuwan, Xikou Gudu and Hukou Waterfall, and simultaneously designs trails, viewing points and slow walking paths, and each main line and branch line has a station and reception center, which is convenient for tourists to sightseeing, accommodation and parking, realize "city view pass, jing jing tong", and change "tourist highway to road tourism".

However, during the promotion of the protection and inheritance of the Yellow River culture and the high-quality development of tourism, Shanxi has also encountered challenges, such as insufficient excavation of the cultural connotation of the Yellow River, the lack of high-quality composite talents who can adapt to the protection and inheritance of the Yellow River culture, the lack of leading enterprises in the integrated development of culture and tourism, and the weak foundation for economic development along the Yellow River, which have always restricted the protection and development and utilization of the Yellow River cultural resources.

At a time when opportunities and challenges coexist, Shanxi is currently actively exploring the promotion of the cultural protection and inheritance of the Yellow River in Shanxi with regional characteristics and the high-quality development path of the Yellow River Cultural Tourism Belt, with a view to realizing the "six areas" of the global tourism demonstration zone, the cultural ecological protection experimental zone, the eco-cultural tourism demonstration zone, the cultural tourism industry integration demonstration zone, the public cultural service system demonstration zone, and the cultural relics protection and utilization demonstration zone, promoting mutual promotion and mutual advancement, and promoting cultural functions and tourism values, cultural formats and tourism formats, cultural innovation and tourism innovation. The whole chain is deeply integrated. (End)