At 9:15 on September 28, the G9801 train left Fuzhou South Railway Station on time, and the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway officially opened for operation. On the first train, many tourists who came to experience were excited to share the riding experience.
A woman from Quanzhou uses her mobile phone to photograph the scenery outside the car window. Photo by reporter Lin Hui
As of October 5, the Fuxia high-speed railway has sent a total of 177,000 passengers. The train runs like a long steel dragon through the mountains, across the bay, leaping between the mountains and the sea, connecting the colorful mountain and sea landscapes of Fujian, bringing more possibilities to Fujian's cultural tourism.
How do fast and slow travel promote each other?
At a speed of 350 kilometers per hour - the appearance of the Fuxia-Xiamen high-speed railway has further shortened the time and space distance with "Chinese speed", and also brought more possibilities for Fujian tourism.
Took the Fuxia high-speed railway and came to Quanzhou. Thanks to its own high-quality tourism resources, the world heritage city of "half city fireworks and half city fairy" is famous.
Quanzhou is known as the "nest of southern Fujian opera". During the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day holiday, Quanzhou launched the "1+N" performance system, carried out a number of large-scale immersive sitcom performances of "Meet Quanzhou", and carried out regular performances in Liyuan Classical Theater, Quanzhou Nanyin Art Garden, Quanzhou Puppet Theater, Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum and other places.
It's an old city, and it's also a young city. Convenient transportation and fast transportation create space for in-depth tours, and Quanzhou, which is known as a "treasure trove of diverse cultures", has become the best choice for tourists to arrive. During the holiday, Quanzhou's 22 World Heritage sites received a total of 1,072,800 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 153.8%.
Among the 22 World Heritage sites in Quanzhou, 8 are concentrated in Licheng District, and the ancient city as a whole is included in the World Heritage "buffer zone". Adhering to the concept of "leaving people and souls, staying homesick, seeing people and seeing things and seeing life", Quanzhou ancient city retains the aborigines, and the transformation of ancient city streets and alleys and the upgrading of cultural tourism formats all revolve around the people's pursuit of a better life. Wandering freely through the streets of Quanzhou without a destination, visitors can not only talk to ancient heritage sites, but also listen to the people who live here tell their stories, making people marvel that the "living ancient city" is worthy of its name.
Nowadays, cloud exhibitions and cloud live broadcasts replace their feet, allowing people to reach distant places without leaving home. But the speed of transportation gives people the motivation to step out of the screen and experience the world with their feet and eyes.
Take Quanzhou as an example. When tourists check in for different purposes, they find that the way to travel here becomes simple - either stroll, or ride a bicycle "Little Orange", or take the ancient city community bus "Xiaobai". The thousand-year-old history and culture inherited and developed in the alleys are unforgettable, because of their thickness, richness and diversity.
"It is better to travel thousands of miles to read ten thousand books", take the fast high-speed train for a slow trip. In Fujian, from popular scenic spots to vegetable markets and theaters, from "walking away" and "special forces tourism" to "city roaming", the purpose of travel is returning to the experience of a better life - slowing down, linking the people, things and things here, and creating a quality life during travel.
"High-speed rail + cultural tourism", how to melt into a new world?
Red brick and white stone double slope curve, brick into stone dovetail ridge. Take the Fuxia high-speed railway to Quanzhou South Railway Station, and the station in front of you will instantly pull tourists into the "southern Fujian style".
Not far from Quanzhou South Railway Station, is the traditional village of Jinjiang Wulin, a national 4A-level tourist scenic spot. Walking in the century-old overseas Chinese village, the ancient mansion of southern Fujian and Western architectural aesthetics are intertwined, red bricks, white stones, green trees, and a bright watercolor painting is outlined between heaven and earth.
"It used to take 40 minutes to drive from Quanzhou city to Wulin, but now it's only a 10-minute drive from Quanzhou South Railway Station." During the holidays, many tourists take the Fuxia high-speed railway to Quanzhou South Railway Station to check in the experiential Minnan overseas Chinese cultural holiday destination.
Quanzhou South Railway Station is one of the three new high-speed railway stations in Quanzhou after the opening of the Fuxia high-speed railway. The opening of Quanzhou South Railway Station, Quanzhou East Railway Station and Quangang Railway Station connects Jinjiang, Shishi, Quanzhou Taiwan Business District and other scenic spots, further increasing the accessibility of Quanzhou scenic spots. In order to facilitate the travel of passengers, Quanzhou has planned 15 bus lines in the first batch to serve three new high-speed rail passenger stations.
Under the trend of tourism popularization, the unique advantages of "big traffic" and "large passenger flow" of railway are further highlighted, and the era of railway tourism is coming. In 2018, with the official opening of the Nanlong Railway, the Fujian EMU line in our province was officially formed. At present, the railway in our province has initially formed a railway grid bureau of "three vertical and six horizontal", and the high-speed railway connects the colorful mountain and sea landscapes of the land of Fujian to welcome tourists from all directions.
A few days ago, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism launched the Golden Autumn Cultural Tourism Promotion Season activity of "Come to Fujian, Take the Train, All the Way to the Mountains and Seas, and Sing All the Way" in the province, planning 10 high-quality routes of the "Fresh Fujian" tourist train, according to 10 themes such as architectural check-in, mountain and sea tour, green Fujian, intangible cultural heritage experience, sea silk exploration, red classics, tea mountain healing, food search, Hakka culture, brilliant night scene, etc., integrating A-level tourist scenic spots, tourist resorts, gold medal tourist villages and towns, red tourist spots, cultural and museum places along the railway, through one trip and multiple stations, In the way of station linkage, Fujian's high-quality cultural and tourism resources are connected. Before the holiday, it will be promoted to the public through multiple channels to launch the brand of "railway tourism" in Fujian.
With the opening of the Fuxia high-speed railway, the train has connected a golden tourist channel connecting the north and south in the province, and "visiting Fujian by high-speed rail" has become a trendy way to open up Fujian tourism.
The deep integration of "high-speed rail + cultural tourism" has spawned the combination of high-speed rail and popular scenic spots, high-star hotels, tourism complexes and other factors, bringing about the continuous renewal of the tourism industry——
In the Xiamen Old Courtyard Scenic Area, which is closest to the new Xiamen North Railway Station, a new free storage trolley box service has been launched, and tourists can directly visit the scenic area after arriving at the North Railway Station. The unique cultural experience of southern Fujian in the scenic area allows tourists to quickly integrate into Xiamen life.
With the opening of the Fuxia-Xiamen high-speed railway, the Xiamen cultural and tourism department released the tourism product of "taking the sea-view high-speed railway to connect to the sea-view subway tour Xiamen", and the combination of the country's first cross-sea high-speed railway and the first sea subway has attracted many tourists to transfer to the subway after getting off the high-speed rail. Putian Nanri Island is famous for its niche and humanistic experience, and the holiday focuses on leisure and entertainment interactive experience through the presentation of "music + beach + food", and brings a new experience of the island with music.
From north to south, the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway passes through five coastal cities of Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou, and the diverse marine culture of Fujian school is strung together, adding another major feature to Fujian's coastal tour.
The vanguard of cultural tourism, how to strengthen the "engine"?
At 10:16 a.m. on September 28, the first batch of tourists taking the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway arrived at Xiamen North Railway Station, which lasted only 1 hour and 01 minutes from Fuzhou South.
Railway exchanges between Fuxia and Xiamen have long been a common occurrence. On April 26, 2010, the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway was officially put into operation, and the railway travel time from Xiamen to Fuzhou was shortened from nearly 15 hours to less than 2 hours, and Fuzhou and Xiamen opened the era of "two cities in one" tourism.
After 13 years, the travel time between Fuxia and Xiamen has been shortened to about 50 minutes, which makes people have the urge to "just go". During the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day, high-speed rail tourism products such as "Two Cities, One Family" and "Morning and Eve" were popular. Fuzhou South Railway Station and Xiamen North Railway Station of Fuxia High-speed Railway sent a total of 1.151 million passengers.
Fuzhou and Xiamen are important cities for tourism in the province and the main destinations for Fujian city tours. As a rich area of public cultural resources in Fujian, the two places have gathered a number of large and high-specification libraries, museums, art galleries and cultural centers, becoming "cultural landmarks" for tourists to unlock Fujian.
Before the holiday, the month-long Fujian Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Award winning works Huimin exhibition kicked off at the Provincial Straits Folk Art Museum, during which visitors were presented with classic plays such as Min opera "Double Butterfly Fan", Puxian opera "Parachute Walking", Peking Opera "Zhao Wuling King" and other classic plays, showing the charm of traditional opera in close interaction.
On the first train of the Fuxia high-speed railway, Puxian opera actors brought wonderful performances. Photo by reporter Lin Hui
Also opened before the holiday, the "Treasures of the Tang Dynasty: Treasures of the Tang Dynasty" was exhibited in Hall 2 of the Fujian Museum, bringing together a total of 152 exhibits from 8 museums in Shaanxi, Henan and Jiangsu provinces. In Hall 9, the permanent exhibition "Light of Ancient Fujian Civilization" continues to attract attention, taking the development of the times as the vertical line, comprehensively displaying the development of Fujian's civilization from ancient times to the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition, special cultural exhibitions such as the nomination exhibition of young painters, the Fujian tea series book fair, the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day theme book exhibition, the photography exhibition, and the historical photo exhibition have been carried out one after another, allowing tourists to get rich spiritual nourishment.
One is a famous historical and cultural city with a long ancient charm, and the other is a "sea garden" city where Chinese and Western cultures blend. In the face of the continuous transformation and upgrading of the tourism market, how can traditional tourism cities innovate and shine?
Mid-Autumn Festival National Day holiday, the modern light show of "Heart of Minjiang" and Bailuzhou Square, the lively night market in the area of Sanfang Seven Alleys and Zhongshan Road, Yantaishan International Art Festival and Gulangyu Piano Art Week, Changle Seventeen Holes and Jimei Ten Mile Long Beach Seaview Campgrounds... Similar but different, but the common idea is to create an original and regional urban culture in the collision of tradition and modernity, giving modern urban vitality and fashion charm.
Themed coffee shops, rock music, talk shows, experimental dramas, cultural theater festivals, live music festivals... In the key tourism areas of Fuzhou and Xiamen, diversified tourism forms have attracted the attention of young people. Ceremonial gameplay such as landmark photography, postcard stamping, and market collection have been released through social media to achieve secondary dissemination and drive popularity to rise. At present, young people have become the main force of tourism, creating their own culture in consumption and dissemination, and becoming a new cultural gene in the city. For urban tourism, innovative ideas and continuous enrichment of urban cultural connotation have gradually become the "code" for cities to create long-term charm.
Source: Fujian Daily