The second Chenzhou international leisure tourism festival will be held together with 2012 Hunan international tourism festival. Besides six major activities of this festival, there will be nine series of activities held in the counties and urban districts of Chenzhou.
The six major activities are as follow:
1. Opening ceremony of the festival
The opening ceremony will be held on the Dongjiang cultural square of Zixing city at 19:38- 22:30 on September 12, 2012. Series of alliance ceremonies such as exchange ceremony of cooperation memorandum “meeting in Hunan”, launching ceremony of the cooperation between Dongjiang Lake and Lake Geneva and hot spring tourism circle launching ceremony named “dating with northern latitude 25°” will be held on the site of opening ceremony. Meanwhile cultural performances with featured Chenzhou elements will be presented to the audiences.
2. Chenzhou folk culture performance
Chenzhou folk culture performance will be showed on September 13- 15 at Wuling Square in the center of Chenzhou city and Hunan Kunqu opera classic theater. It was planned to invite elites of different fields, folk culture figures, and Chenzhou citizens to attend the performance. The special performance of Kunqu opera, folk culture, and “Chenzhou charm” will be acted separately at Hunan Kunqu opera classic theater on September 13 and Wuling Square on September 14 and 15.
3. The third China decoration stone- mineral crystal exhibition
This exhibition will be held at Chenzhou stone exhibition hall and stone city of Houfu from September 14 to 24 with the theme of “nature, harmony, communication, development”. It was planned to discuss the prospection and trend of decoration stone (mineral crystal) to find the cooperation methods and ways, and build the communication platforms of stone culture.
4. Hiking activity on mule traces and ancient paths
This hiking activity will be held from 9:00- 18:00 on September 16. It will be started from dock square of Yuhou Street and ended at Zhongxia square in Yizhang County, with the distance of 45kms.
5. Fragrant orange well- traditional Chinese medicine culture forum
This forum will be held on Suxianling landscape, which is named as the 18th blessing place in the world. It includes three parts- the opening ceremony, Chinese traditional medicine peak forum, and free clinic. The forum will be focused on three topics like the protection and undertaking of traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage, the positioning and thought of traditional Chinese medicine in the medical system, and health maintenance & prevention with traditional Chinese medicine.
6. Final contest of Hunan area for 2012 Miss Tourism of the globe
In the morning of September 18, “Dongjiang Lake- Chenzhou beauties” contest will be held in Dongjiang cultural square of Zixing city. The final contest of Hunan area for 2012 Miss Tourism of the globe will be held on September 21 there.
Furthermore, in order to coordinate the international tourism festival, 11 counties of Chenzhou will show their different activities for visitors to enjoy the unique local characteristics, such as Zixing county’s international water Yoga performance, Dongjiang fish cultural festival, the bike contest in Dongjiang Lake, Beihu district and Suxian district’s combination activities, Guiyang county’s first show of Baoshan national mineral park and Hunan rural tourism development forum, Yizhang county’s first mountain games in Mountain Mang, “Red Triangle” cultural ecological festival of red revolutionary areas in Rucheng and Guidong, “three provinces and six counties” ecological tourism year of Luoxiao Mountain, culture forum on ecological leisure and health etc..