In recent years, Guazhou County has built a "fast forward" channel, smoothed the "slow travel" micro-circulation, carefully cultivated a golden self-driving tourism traffic loop, and deepened the integrated development of transportation and tourism. With the goal of "building a road, stringing a road scene, developing an industry, and enriching the people of a region", we will build a tourism backbone road network.
The geographical location advantage is obvious. Guazhou County is located at the intersection of Xining-Dunhuang-Ejinaqi and Lanzhou-Jiujia-Urumqi. From the perspective of the overall area of Guazhou County, there are "tens of millions of kilowatts" wind power, photovoltaic and other new energy industrial zones on the north side of Guazhou County, and on the south side, there are Yuhang Road connecting the famous tourist city of Dunhuang, Hanging Spring Site, Yulin Grottoes, a national cultural relics protection unit and the ruins of Suoyang City, which is adjacent to Jiayuguan Jiuquan Airport to the east and 100 kilometers to Dunhuang Airport to the west. The middle line of the road network is connected to the International Gobi Sculpture Art Corridor, Shuangta Reservoir, Sandaogou Fulu Flower Field, Fairy Forest and other scenic spots, creating a global tourism landscape belt and realizing the innovative butterfly change of turning the tourist highway into road tourism. From the perspective of the entire northwest region, Guazhou County is located in the center of the five provinces of Gansu, Qingdao, Singapore, Mongolia and Ningbo. As the central hub of the Silk Road, Guazhou County has strong relevance and complementarity in terms of industry, land, resources, urban functions, etc., and has obvious geographical advantages and a cooperative basis for the development of regional economic integration.
The fast-forward roaming system is complete. Guazhou takes the active promotion of the Yulin Grottoes to Hanging Springs Tourist Highway (Guazhou Section) as the starting point, promotes the integrated and linked development of the eastern and central scenic clusters of the Greater Dunhuang Cultural Tourism Economic Circle, creates unique world heritage landscape corridors and high-quality tourism routes, accelerates the construction of a new system of fast-forward and slow-travel travel, and empowers a new pattern of transportation and tourism integration. Make full use of the natural topography and landforms such as deserts, Gobi and stone mountains along the Yulin Grottoes to Hanging Springs Tourist Highway, connect the Yulin Caves, Gobi Clear Springs, Hua'er Springs, Hanging Springs and other tourist scenic spots, and fully appreciate the three basic landforms of the mountainous areas, Gobi Deserts and corridor alluvial plains.
Profound historical and cultural heritage. There are 465 immovable cultural relics and historic sites, 1 world cultural heritage, 10 national key cultural relics protection units, 13 provincial cultural relics protection units, 2 national 4A-level tourist attractions, and 3 national 3A-level tourist attractions. It has many cultural relics and historic sites such as the ruins of Suoyang City, the "sister cave" of Mogao Grottoes, and many other cultural relics and historic sites, and sculptures such as "Son of the Earth", "Unbounded" and "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" have become popular tourist "check-in places", and the "Xuanzang Road Gobi Challenge" has been held for 18 consecutive sessions has been rated as a national sports tourism boutique event, and the Anxi Battle Memorial Hall of the Red West Road Army has been named the patriotism education base of Gansu Province and the provincial youth research and education base. The rich historical and cultural heritage and numerous ancient city ruins and natural landscapes have formed a collection of desert customs, ancient city grottoes, outdoor hiking, Silk Road research and study as one of the characteristic tourism resources, attracting groups of tourists to experience and play.
(Author: Correspondent Zhao Ting)