The alliance signing ceremony of 2012 China Chenzhou international tourism leisure and culture festival was held on September 12, 2012. In the ceremony, Chenzhou city signed the cooperation memorandum with Geneva Lake, northern latitude 25℃ hot spring tourism circle, and Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan landscape.

Susan He- Director-general of Sino-Switzerland economic association and Qu Hai- Deputy Secretary of Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Chenzhou city signed the tourism resource cooperation memorandum between Geneva Lake and Dongjiang Lake.

Dongjiang Lake is honored as “eastern Switzerland” which has many similarities with Lake Geneva, the biggest lake in Alps Lake belts located between Switzerland and France. This alliance can bring more international fame for Dongjiang Lake and guarantee Chenzhou with more tourism business chances.
 

Hitham Elcshahap- secondary secretary of Egypt ambassador in China and Li Ting- Deputy Mayor of Chenzhou city signed the alliance memorandum of northern latitude 25℃ hot spring tourism circle.

Thanks to its unique climatic and geological features, there are many hot springs in northern latitude 25℃ area. In China, if taking Chenzhou heaven hot spring, Longnv hot spring, Rucheng hot spring in the south of Hunan as the center of the belt, there are Beitou hot spring of Taiwan in the east and Tengchong hot spring of Yunnan in the west.
 

On the opening ceremony of 2012 China Hunan international tourism festival & 2nd Chenzhou international leisure and tourism cultural festival on September 12, 2012, the tourism resources with same ecological characteristic at the same latitude gathered together. The tourism representatives from Chenzhou, Xiamen, Kunming, Longsheng, Tengchong, Mexico, Burma, Egypt and other cities signed the memorandum of cooperation to forge the “northern latitude 25°& hot spring tourism circle” and reached the resource integration across regions.
 

Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan landscape administration and Dongjiang lake landscape administration signed the tourism cooperation memorandum to promote the further communication between two famous landscapes.

Zhangjiajie is a famous mountain landscape with fantastic mountains, rocks and water while Dongjiang Lake is a famous lake landscape with the fame of “south Dongting Lake”. Both the two landscapes show the graceful image of Hunan province to the world. In the opening ceremony, the two allied with each other to create the top brand of Hunan with the name of “mountains & water”.