With the introduction of the "double reduction" policy and the changes in the talent training mode and direction of the whole society, the position of quality education in talent training has become increasingly prominent. According to iiMedia Research's data report, the overall market size of the mainland research travel market has developed rapidly from 2018 to 2023, and it is expected that the overall market size will reach 242.2 billion yuan in 2026.
Research tourism is based on "research", "learning" as the purpose, and "travel" as the carrier, which is an extension of the school classroom. In recent years, with the dual catalysis of favorable policies and demand for quality education, the research market has continued to show a trend of rapid expansion, and research travel projects have also emerged in an endless stream. Below, the editor has taken stock of 24 good projects of research tourism in eight categories in recent years and shared them with you.
01 History and Culture + Research
Gansu Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes
The Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, are located in Dunhuang at the western end of the Hexi Corridor. It was built in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and has been built in successive dynasties such as the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Northern Dynasties, the Sui, the Tang, the Five Dynasties, the Western Xia, and the Yuan Dynasty, forming a huge scale. There are 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals, 2,415 clay colored sculptures, and it is the largest and richest Buddhist art place in the world. In 1987, the Mogao Grottoes were listed as a World Heritage Site.
In the past few days, primary and secondary school students from all over the country have organized a group to "check in" the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and started a colorful research journey. Through immersive tours, hands-on crafting and game experiences, children learn about the history and culture of Dunhuang and touch the imprint of the thousand-year-old Silk Road. Study tours are becoming the main growth point of Dunhuang's tourism off-season market.
Source: Mogao Grottoes Visit Reservation Network Official Account
Sichuan Guanghan Sanxing Village Archaeological Research Base
Sanxingcun Archaeological Exploration Base is an archaeological research base transformed by using the idle paradise near the Sanxingdui site, and there are three major experience scenes in the base: archaeological site, production workshop, and ancient Shu village, which correspond to the connotation of the material heritage, craft technology and life culture of Sanxingdui site, as well as the three major course themes of field archaeology, ancient Shu craftsman course and ancient Shu village life.
Based on the curriculum, the ancient method of making jade, archaeological excavation boxes and other educational experience cultural and creative products can be experienced, so that more children who cannot come can also experience it with their own hands, and the base ushers in waves of research teams every day, which is a demonstration case of domestic social capital relying on cultural relics and archaeological resources to carry out research.
Source: Official account of Sanxing Village Archaeological Exploration Base
Shaanxi Xi'an Daming Palace National Heritage Park
"Nine days to open the palace, all countries to worship the crown", Daming Palace National Heritage Park with its unparalleled scale and courage, witnessed the glory of the Tang Dynasty. While ensuring professionalism, the project combines the archaeological achievements and examples of Daming Palace, creatively transforms archaeological knowledge into three-dimensional scenes, and guides the public to feel the Tang Dynasty civilization from archaeological evidence through physical and mechanical and multimedia interaction, and enhances cultural self-confidence in the actual participation experience, which is sought after by research teams from all over the country.
Here, students can put on special archaeological equipment and become a "Tang Exploration Team" to gently brush away the dust of history and look for the secrets that have been sleeping underground for thousands of years. The Daming Palace National Heritage Park interprets the culture of the Daming Palace ruins and the spirit of Tang culture at multiple levels and from multiple angles in the way of archaeological research, so that the excellent traditional Chinese culture can nourish contemporary life.
Source: Daming Palace National Heritage Park official account
02 Red tourism + research
Orange Island, Changsha, Hunan
Located in the heart of the Xiangjiang River in Yuelu District, Changsha City, Orange Island is the largest inland continent in the world. In 1925, Mao Zedong wrote the majestic "Qinyuan Spring, Changsha" here, and the well-known poems made the orange island, which was originally rich in history and culture, famous at home and abroad, and was known as "China's first continent".
As a famous tourist card of Changsha, Orange Island is an indispensable scenery in research trips. In recent years, the place has continued to carry out research and study tours with different themes, transmitting the revolutionary history, revolutionary tradition, revolutionary spirit and cultural heritage of the Chinese nation to students through research trips, so as to stimulate students' patriotic feelings, national pride and sense of honor.
Source: Yuelu Mountain Orange Island Tourism Area Official Account
Shandong Linyi Menglianggu Battle Memorial Hall
Linyi, as the capital of the liberated area of Shandong, is known as "Little Yan'an in East China", and during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, it was one of the famous revolutionary bases, and was known as the holy land of the two wars and the red Yimeng. The Menglianggu Battle Memorial Hall has been named one of the top ten red tourism areas in the country and the national patriotism education demonstration base, which is an ideal place to carry out red-themed research.
Meng Lianggu's research and service team adheres to the combination of red tourism and party spirit education, socialist core values construction, youth ideological and moral construction, patriotism education, and revolutionary tradition education, and formulates relevant courses in a targeted manner, and organically connects them with school education, highlighting the practicality, interest and diversity of the curriculum; At the same time, it deeply excavates the connotation of Yimeng spirit, anti-Japanese war spirit, traditional Chinese culture and patriotism education, carefully designs the field visit route and activity content, and builds Menglianggu red tourism into a vivid classroom that is always learning and constantly new, so as to meet the requirements of all kinds of students' research trips.
Maoshan Scenic Area, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
Maoshan is one of the six major mountainous anti-Japanese base areas in the country, and is rich in red resources. In recent years, Maoshan Scenic Area has attached great importance to the protection and utilization of red resources, strengthened the preservation and protection of revolutionary sites, inherited the "red gene", gathered "red power", and ignited the "red engine".
At the same time, the scenic spot has launched red boutique research routes such as "Red + Agricultural Time", "Red + Chinese Studies" and "Red + Archaeology", starting the red research brand; In-depth excavation of Maoshan red events and deeds, collection and sorting of Maoshan Anti-Japanese War stories, compiled into red stories; Tell red stories with fresh teaching materials, carry out red story publicity activities, and build a bridge between the audience and red culture.
Source: Jurong Maoshan Scenic Area public account
03 Agricultural experience + research
Hubei Suizhou Yunfeng Mountain 10,000 acres of tea plantation
With its unique geographical location and abundant natural resources, Yunfeng Mountain has given birth to a 10,000-acre tea plantation. It is not only the hometown of tea, but also an excellent place to experience farming, learn about tea culture and research values.
Tea culture has a long history in the mainland, and the 10,000 acres of tea plantations in Yunfeng Mountain is a holy place for learning tea culture. It is of great value for research. Its abundant natural resources and unique tea culture provide rich materials and inspiration for research activities. Students can carry out practical activities such as biodiversity surveys and ecological environmental protection here, and have an in-depth understanding of agricultural experience such as tea picking, tea making, and roasting tea. Swimming in the sea of green tea in 10,000 acres, let children know more about feeling nature, getting close to nature, appreciating nature, and protecting nature.
Source: Shennong Group's official account
Anhui Xiao County, Portuguese-dien Township
The project is located in Zhangcun, Baitu Town, Xiao County, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, which is now a provincial-level high-quality demonstration village with a provincial-level grape demonstration base, a modern agricultural demonstration park, a research travel practice education base and a leisure resort, with high research value.
The children walked into the modern grape planting greenhouse of Zhangcun Modern Agricultural Demonstration Park, carried out agricultural science popularization classes on the spot, participated in grape planting management and agricultural experience, visited the grape culture corridor, and carried out a series of development activities. What we gained on the way to study is not only knowledge, but also awe and love for nature.
Source: Portuguese-divine original township public account
Shandong Linyi Yinjiayu Youth Education Center
Yinjiayu Youth Comprehensive Practical Education and Research Base is located in Yinjiayu Pastoral Complex, the base has five characteristic venues in Yimeng Huakai Tourism Area, Gushuijian Theme Hotel, Yunshuijian Boutique Homestay, Q-BOX Food Street and Outdoor Development Park and other projects, introducing a variety of business formats such as science and technology agriculture, aerospace, art research, children's entertainment, pastoral resort hotels and homestays, and becoming a pastoral agricultural and cultural tourism leisure vacation and research tourism destination in Linyi, Shandong.
At the same time, the base has aerial strawberry planting greenhouses and natural agricultural planting demonstration bases, which realize the integrated development of traditional agriculture and modern agriculture, and is an agricultural research demonstration project integrating planting, leisure, picking, science popularization and research. It is a popular destination for children to go deep into the nature classroom and experience farming.
Source: Yinjiayu Pastoral Complex
04 Museum Exhibition + Research
Luoyang, Henan, the capital of Oriental Museum
Luoyang Oriental Museum Capital Research Camp is located at the site of Yirenfang in Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which is a research camp in Luoyang's ancient capital research and development that pioneered the new concept of "stacked" site protection and construction and the planning and construction of high-quality movable prefabricated buildings. The camp is surrounded by abundant research resources, with the camp as the center, and there are "four museums and four parks" resources such as Luoyang Museum and Dingdingmen Ruins Museum, forming a 15-minute research walking circle.
In the future, the Oriental Museum Capital Research Camp will also focus on the international interactive exchange platform for the innovation, co-construction and sharing of the world heritage education model, fully explore the ecological value of the world cultural heritage, enrich the sustainable protection model of the world cultural heritage site, establish a model for the harmonious development of man and nature, and provide a reference system for the action of the global world heritage education innovation practitioners, so as to better contribute to the future development of world heritage education.
Source: Official account of the Capital of Oriental Museums
Jiangxi Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum
Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum, also known as Jingdezhen Chinese Ceramics Museum, is the only professional museum of ceramic art that was established after the founding of New China and has a rich collection of porcelain. It has a wide variety of ceramic treasures from ancient times to the present day.
In recent years, the Jingdezhen Chinese Ceramics Museum has launched a series of activities of "Entering 100 Schools and Attracting 10,000 People". Give full play to the social education function of the museum, a "university", carry forward the core values of socialism, do a good job in the inheritance of ceramic culture, and speak for Jingdezhen ceramic culture through the combination of "bringing in" and "going out", and contribute to the development of Jingdezhen culture and inheritance.
Source: Jingdezhen Chinese Ceramics Museum official account
Shandong Qingdao Naval Museum
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Naval Museum is the only military museum in China that reflects the development of the Chinese Navy. It is a treasure that carries the history of the navy, and it is also a classroom for traditional education, which everywhere demonstrates the spiritual strength of the mainland navy.
It is divided into three exhibition areas: indoor, sea and land, which is the epitome of the historic achievements of the construction and development of the People's Navy, through a piece of precious cultural relics and a realistic restoration landscape, showing the historic changes of the People's Navy all the way to the waves, witnessing the strong style of the mainland Navy to the sea, but also reminding the children not to forget their responsibilities and responsibilities, and further stimulating the children's patriotic feelings and national pride.
Source: Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy Museum public account
05 Camp education + research
Shandong Tai'an AIA Pastoral International Camp
Tai'an is named after Mount Tai and has the beautiful meaning of "Guotai Min'an". Tai'an is blessed with unique cultural and tourism resources, with 70 A-level tourist attractions, 4 provincial-level tourist resorts shining, and 15 national key cultural relics protection units.
Located in Ningyang County, Tai'an City, Tai'an AIA Pastoral International Camp is a comprehensive training and development camp integrating "agriculture + tourism + education + culture". In recent years, it has been deeply loved by research groups with perfect supporting facilities and diversified outdoor education system. With the educational concept of "one bed, one dish, one class, and one small shop", the camp deeply excavates experiential education, and is one of the few education bases in Shandong Province.
Source: AIA Pastoral International Camp official account
Harbin Polar Park
Harbin Polar Park is the first national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students in Heilongjiang awarded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and the national popular science education base awarded by the China Association for Science and Technology. The original Taoxue Penguin Pavilion, the country's first polar marine research and education base, brings together four rare Antarctic penguins, and uses metaverse, VR, holographic and other technologies to create three major research classrooms, attracting a large number of parent-child families to come to study and travel, and becoming a must-visit stop for research teams from all over the country to Harbin.
Harbin Polar Park has also created original polar ice and snow research projects such as "Polar Wonderful Night" and "Penguin Trainer", bringing the world's first cloned Arctic wolf, polar beluga, Antarctic penguin, polar bear and other world-class rare animal resources and biotechnology resources to children, feel the unique charm of cloning technology up close, cultivate environmental awareness of "protecting biodiversity and maintaining the earth's homeland", so that children across the country can meet the most extreme ice and snow polar regions when they come to Heilongjiang!
Source: Harbin Cultural Tourism Official Account
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Chengdu, Sichuan
The giant panda is a veritable "living fossil", surviving the same kind of meat eaters for 8 million years, and the evolutionary leader of the glacial period. The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda is an important window for us to understand the giant panda and explore its evolutionary history.
In recent years, the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda has organized a variety of research courses, so that students from all over the world can enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature and have a deeper understanding of our country's determination and confidence in protecting giant pandas and other rare animals and plants, promote the attention and support of all sectors of society for environmental protection, and provide an important impetus for the construction of ecological civilization.
Source: Screenshot of the video account of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
06 Sports development + research
Anhui Hefei Binhu National Forest Park
Approaching the summer vacation, Hefei Binhu National Forest Park ushered in the peak of primary and secondary school students' research. In order to better meet the research needs of students of different ages, in recent years, Hefei Binhu National Forest Park has set up a research system based on the actual situation, and developed more than 120 research courses with natural forest characteristics around the four major sections of natural science popularization, labor education, emergency safety, and physical sports, so as to create a "classroom without walls" for children. At present, the forest park has been rated as the national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education base, the national high-quality nature education base, the national forest and grass science popularization base and other honorary titles.
In recent years, Hefei Baohe District has focused on the rich cultural, scientific, educational and ecological resources of the district, organically combined book knowledge with field scenes, and strived to create a "science tour Baohe" brand with the characteristics of "literature", "science" and "students", and promoted 142,000 primary and secondary school students to broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge in rich and diverse research and practice, and improve their core literacy in the immersive learning experience.
Source: Hefei Binhu National Forest Park public account
Shaanxi Liuba Football Youth Training Center
The youth football training base is located in Shiyingpan Village, Zhakou Town, Liuba County, Yingpan Village has a history of nearly 2,000 years, until the end of 2008, Hanzhong City, where Liuba County is located, advocated the vigorous development of women's football. Compared with the noisy and impetuous training base in the city, Yingpan Village is deep in the foothills of the Qinling Mountains, backed by Zibai Mountain, and the temperature is very suitable for training in all seasons.
Relying on the unique ecological resources and climate advantages, Yingpan Village, Liuhou Town, regards the development of sports+ as an important way to promote rural revitalization and increase farmers' income, integrates resources such as agriculture, tourism, culture, and talents, and vigorously develops research and learning. Actively develop cultural and leisure activities with sports competitions, eco-tourism, sports and leisure as the core experience, and continue to promote the in-depth integration of agriculture, tourism and sports, which has stimulated the strong vitality of the countryside.
Source: Liuba Football Youth Training Center official account
Hubei Xianning Chibi Research Town Camp
The base covers an area of about 1,000 acres, the natural landscape and the cultural landscape complement each other, the learning function, popular science function, and practical function of labor education are complete, and it is a comprehensive labor practice place, which provides labor education supporting services for primary and secondary school students in Xianning City. Through the overall planning, the base adheres to the principles of government-led, education-supervised, state-controlled private and departmental co-construction, and has now formed one camp, three bases, nine major education subjects, 27 types of curriculum systems, and nearly 200 course lesson plans.
The barren schools, barren scenic spots, and barren farmland in the past no longer exist, and the "three wilds" have long become the "three beautifuls", and the comprehensive practice base, the outward bound training base and the labor education base have become a beautiful local landscape, and along the winding Lushui River, stunning the distance!
Source: Chibi City Research Town Camp Official Account
07 Cultural recreation + research
Jinan Qufu Nishan Holy Land
Jining Qufu is the hometown of Confucius and the birthplace of Confucian culture, and has unique advantages in building a highland for Confucian culture research in the world. In 2006, Qufu hosted China's first study tourism festival. On this basis, Jining has expanded the original single "Confucius Hometown Tour" to a "Holy Land Research Tourism" throughout the whole region, and opened the exploration and practice of "Visiting the Holy Land" to create a world Confucian cultural research highland.
Relying on the unique locational, natural, historical, cultural and other resource advantages, the Nishan Sacred Realm Research Experience takes "Mingli Lifestyle" as the core cultural theme and Confucian culture as the main body, deeply excavates China's excellent traditional culture, and leads children to immerse themselves in the charm of traditional culture.
Source: Nishan Holy Realm public account
Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu
Nanjing Confucius Temple is the place of worship and worship of Confucius, is China's first national highest university, one of China's four major Confucian temples, the hub of ancient Chinese culture, the place where Jinling history and humanities gather, not only the cultural and educational center of Nanjing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but also the cultural and educational buildings in the top of the southeastern provinces.
In order to make good use, research and spread the excellent traditional Chinese culture, improve the IP influence of Confucius Temple, boost the tourism image promotion of Confucius Temple, and promote the development of tourism economy through research, Confucius Temple Cultural Tourism Group has established a research center. Guided by the brand of Confucius Temple as a tourist destination, and echoing diversified themes such as historical research, literary research, and intangible cultural heritage research, the research center has launched diversified research business lines such as primary and secondary school students' research, college students' social practice, and parent-child research, continuously increasing the number of research and study tours, and driving the tourism economy.
Source: Confucius Temple Qinhuai Scenery Belt Public Account
Hainan Sanya Nanshan International Intangible Cultural Heritage Center
Sanya Nanshan International Intangible Cultural Heritage Center is located in Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, bringing together many domestic and foreign intangible cultural heritage projects, and is the "Hainan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Research Base" and "Hainan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance and Protection Base", and was selected into the first batch of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism Integration Development Preferred Project List" in 2022.
"Intangible cultural heritage + tourism" has injected strong impetus into the integrated development of culture and tourism, brought new experience needs to the tourism industry, and also provided a platform and opportunity for the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. The place is committed to accelerating the integration of culture and tourism, creating a platform for intangible cultural heritage exchange and cooperation, displaying the charm of intangible cultural heritage in an all-round way, and promoting the integration of intangible cultural heritage and tourism in a wider range, deeper and higher level, with the goal of creating "the most influential international intangible cultural heritage lifestyle experience platform in Hainan", and gradually realizing the vision of radiating the national intangible cultural heritage circle with Nanshan as the origin and forming a practice base of "intangible cultural heritage + cultural exchange", "intangible cultural heritage + smart tourism", "intangible cultural heritage + cultural creativity", "intangible cultural heritage + research" and "intangible cultural heritage + performing arts".
Source: Sanya Nanshan International Intangible Cultural Heritage Center official account
08 Nature Experience + Research
Jiangxi Wuyuan Linnaeus Laboratory
Linnaeus Laboratory is a natural education and science popularization institution established in Wuyuan by researchers from all over the country. In the laboratory, young researchers will teach nature science in a more lively and interesting way, they will lead children to collect biological samples in natural wetlands, make artificial nest boxes for homeless birds, and watch how bacteria "taste a big meal" under a microscope.
Through rigorous scientific research to discover beauty, interesting science popularization to spread beauty, and market ways to activate beauty, the changes brought by this "wonderful" laboratory are refreshing. Popular science education not only allows more people to appreciate the beauty of natural ecology, but also opens up a way for the local people to get rich through research. The value of landscapes, plants and trees will be seen by more people and produce greater economic and social benefits.
Source: Linnaeus Laboratory official account
Guangdong Shaoguan Danxia Mountain
Danxia Mountain (China Red Rock Park) is the largest scenic area in Guangdong Province, a scenic area dominated by Danxia landform landscape and a world natural heritage site. It is also the most important research base of Danxia landform. Danxia Mountain is a collection of geology, humanity and nature, and is an outstanding representative of low-altitude mountain tourist resorts. The reception facilities here are perfect, and all elements of food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment are gathered.
In recent years, Danxia Mountain has been committed to building a famous scientific mountain brand, based on the unique geological landform, rich biodiversity and profound cultural heritage, the tourism + education concept of "reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles" has been implemented into daily protection and management work, and has adhered to the national public welfare attribute of the proposed national park, attracting a large number of primary and secondary school students to Danxia Mountain to carry out popular science research activities. It is a national popular science education base recognized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
Source: Danxia Mountain/Earth Magazine public account
Jiangsu Changzhou China Dinosaur Park
Changzhou Dinosaur Park is a dinosaur-themed park, with a dinosaur science museum and a rich dinosaur-themed amusement area. In the Dinosaur Museum, students can observe different varieties of dinosaur fossils and learn about their naming, geographical distribution and lifestyles through models, exhibition panels, interactive video materials and other display forms.
In order to make meaningful things interesting, entertaining and entertaining, Dinosaur Park has put forward the green development concept of "getting close to nature, protecting the environment, cherishing life, guarding the homeland, and not letting the dinosaur's yesterday become the tomorrow of mankind", and carried out research and study tours around this concept. Later, the research and training department was established to integrate various carrier resources under the group, and innovate the "tourism + education" model through the integration and application of technology, scenes, interaction, experience and other means.
Source: China Dinosaur Park official account