It was reported that water leisure trip of Doulv Island, Dongjiang Lake was launched in Dongjiang Dam Dock on August 19, 2016, which indicated that the unique “water” life of Dongjiang Lake’s tourism was opened to public. The Mediterranean Sea style cruises, passionate motorboat, and some other new aquatic leisure sports items are available there.
Dongjiang Lake Landscape is one of the national resorts and 5A landscapes of China. The key characteristic resources of the landscape is the 160 square kilometers big water surface and 8.1billion cubic meters water-storage capacity. In recent years, in order to improve the landscape to be the resources of promoting sustainable development of local economy, Zixing Municipal Party Committee and Zixing Government paid great attention on upgrading Dongjiang Lake to be famous landscape nationwide by playing the best role of its tourism.
“It is purposely to improve Dongjiang Lake to be a high level water leisure tourism destination of south China by starting the first step of the water leisure trip. People who want to escape from the tired working life and hot weather can enjoy their special trip here,” introduced by one of the principals of Yijing Camp Investment Co., Ltd. It was introduced that the wooden villas built by the company matched the natural environment of Doulv Island well, which was famous as “Maldives of Hunan Province”. Thousands of visitors were attracted to enjoy their leisure lives during weekends and holidays. Current tourism model which is mainly for the landscapes travel of Dongjiang Lake can’t meet the demands of increasing visitors, so the company and Dongjiang Lake Landscape tried great efforts on seeking new solutions for the “water” tourism.
Currently, colorful water sports items as luxurious cruise, motorboat, and etc. suitable for adults and children were set there. Some more water items would be facilitated there in future there. All of them would become new consumption points of the landscape and help to promote the transformation and upgrading of Zixing tourism industry accordingly.