On June 1, at the intersection of Linji Road Street and Tianshan West Road, Restan Street, Kuqa City, the 2024 Duku Highway Departure Ceremony of Kuqa City was grandly held, and self-driving travel enthusiasts and tourists from all over the country gathered together, and more than 1,200 RVs, off-road vehicles, and motorcycles will set off from here to go to a summer event and look for another year of Duku romance.
At the departure ceremony, Adili Aili, deputy secretary of the Aksu Prefectural Party Committee and commissioner of the Administrative Office, Daniel Zhang, member of the leading party group and deputy director of the Autonomous Region Department of Culture and Tourism, Zhang Honglin, vice chairman of the Autonomous Regional Federation of Literature and Culture and chairman of the Xinjiang Calligraphers Association, Du Ming, secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Working Committee of the Aksu Regional People's Congress, and Ma Ronghua, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, deputy political commissar, director of the Propaganda Department and vice mayor of Alar City of the First Division, presented flags to representatives of the motorcycle fleet, the RV team, the off-road vehicle team, and the Lei Feng team of Kuqa City.
On behalf of the majority of car owners, Lei Feng Racing Team of Kuqa City issued an environmental protection and green travel initiative to the whole society, calling on the majority of tourists and the whole society to take active action, adhere to the concept of "low-carbon environmental protection and green travel", and jointly build a harmonious tourism environment. Relevant representatives issued a smile service initiative to relevant practitioners in the tourism industry, calling on practitioners to improve their enthusiasm for smile service, comprehensively enhance the soft power of tourism industry management, reputation, brand, service, concept and other aspects, and let the achievements of civilized tourism construction bring better experience to tourists.
Adili Aili pointed out at the ceremony that in recent years, the Aksu region has seized the great opportunity of the continuous release of stability dividends, policy dividends, resource dividends, and Xinjiang aid dividends, insisted on "promoting" culture with cultural and plastic tourism and tourism, and dug deep into the cultural connotation of "multi-wave turtles", taking multiple measures to do a good job in the integration of culture and tourism, planning high-quality routes, building key scenic spots, creating high-quality repertoire, and holding nearly 1,000 cultural, sports and tourism festivals such as singing and dancing performances, intangible cultural heritage displays, sports events, and food cooking. The cultural exchange and economic cooperation platform between provinces, prefectures and prefectures continues to launch the brand of the "Duolang Qiuzi" cultural tourism festival, and embarks on a unique and leading road of integrated development of culture and tourism in Xinjiang.
"The 20th Duolang Qiuci Cultural Tourism Festival and the 3rd Qiuci Culture and Art Series Activities in Kuqa City are cultural events and festivals for the masses. As the core birthplace of Qiuci culture, Kuqa has carefully organized celebrations with various forms and rich contents, and we can feel the historical memory of the diversity and integration of Qiuci culture in the old town of Kuqa and Qiuci alleys to watch the fuqin and poetry games; In the Kuqa Palace's 'Su Musha' music and dance performance, you can appreciate the unique charm of Qiuzi music and dance; In the 100-meter-long scroll of Qiuci murals, absorb the breadth and profundity of Qiuci mural art. We sincerely invite visitors from all over the world to visit Aksu, promote Aksu, and jointly write a new chapter in the high-quality development of Aksu's cultural and tourism industry. Adili Aili said.
With an order, RVs, off-road vehicles, and motorcycles from all over the country marched neatly and mightily to the Dukuche Highway to start a romantic journey.
Duku Highway is located in the southern section of National Highway 217, which is a traffic artery connecting the north and south of Xinjiang, and is a tourist mecca in the hearts of self-driving travel enthusiasts. Duku Highway starts from Dushanzi in the north, connects Kuqa in the south, with a total length of 561 kilometers, there are many scenic spots along the line, it is a veritable landscape avenue, which crosses the high mountains and mountains, crosses the deep valleys and ravines, the scenery along the way is charming, and every year it will attract tourists from all over the country to come here to feel the unique natural scenery.
"The main reason for coming to Xinjiang this time is to cross the Duku Highway, and the place I want to go to the most is the mysterious Grand Canyon of the Tianshan Mountains. The mutton and naan in Xinjiang are very delicious, and the people of Xinjiang are also very welcoming. Li Haiwu, a self-driving tourist in Beijing, said.
"Before coming to Xinjiang, I did a lot of research, and I longed for the Duku Highway very much, where there are grasslands and snow-capped mountains...... It contains a lot of beautiful scenery. Many of my friends have told me that the Duku Highway is a heroic road, so I have great respect for this road. Yang Songge, a tourist from Yunnan, said.
With the opening of the Duku Highway, the tourist attractions along the route will continue to increase, in order to enhance the tourists' sense of travel experience, Kuqa City in advance of the scenic spots of the basic supporting facilities to upgrade, in the Duku Highway zero kilometers to build a new tour plank road about 1 km long and set up a viewing platform, in the Kuqa Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon Scenic Area to create a multi-functional tourism service area, to bring tourists a better tourism experience, is expected to be put into use in mid-June. At the same time, the 66-kilometer repair and reconstruction of the damaged pavement section of National Highway 217 Kurgan to Yanshuigou has been completed. (Kuqa City Rong Media Center reporter Shu Li, Zhang Ruili, Liu Xuemei, Xie Chao, Zhang Lei)