In order to mobilize the social power to study, inherit, expand and develop the abundant cultural resources of Banliang ancient village, Yongxing county set up the tourism cultural seminar of Banliang ancient village to assist the development of Yongxing’s tourism industry.

With the long history of over 600 years, Banliang ancient village was established in late Song and early Yuan Dynasty, flourishing in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now more than 360 buildings from Ming and Qing Dynasties with over 1000 rooms are well reserved in Banliang ancient village. With the splendid cultural and travelling resources, human resources and natural resources interacting with each other, the tourist resources in Banliang ancient village are typical and representative with high grade and high quality. With its great scale, good reservation, beautiful scenery, long history and massive culture, Banliang ancient village was honored as “the First Village of South Hunan” and as the famous village of China history, the first batch of Chinese featured tourism village, Hunan featured village and Hunan agricultural tourism demonstration spot.

With the purpose of further protection, mining and making good use of the tourism culture resources in Banliang ancient village, Liu Zhengchao, Liu Bingsheng, Liu Lequan and other volunteers and experts prepared for more than 2 months to get the positive feedback from Yongxing Civil Affairs Bureau. Finally, the bureau issued the official reply to “the approval on the establishment of tourism cultural seminar of Banliang ancient village” on May 25, 2012. On July 29, 2012, and the launching ceremony of establishment of tourism cultural seminar of Banliang ancient village was held in Yongchangxing Hotel, Yongxing county. After the establishment of a research association, it will be devoted to discovering and studying more tourism cultural resources and pay more attention to cultivating the tourism jobholders through mobilization of community resources, deep development of cultural products, planning tourism and cultural activities, further enhancing the brand and influence of Banliang ancient village.