It was learned from Chenzhou Tourism and Foreign Affair Bureau that there are 12 4A and above level landscapes available in Chenzhou city, ranking 2nd place of Hunan province. Chenzhou kept the top place among other cities of Hunan provinces on the evaluation of tourism industry economy for consecutive years, which upgraded it to be the important pole of Hunan tourism industry, as well as granted it with sound foundation for “improving 100billion yuan industry, establishing strong tourism city”.

According to the statistics, 39.413million tourists were received by Chenzhou city in 2015, up 17.9%, contributing 29.24billion yuan, up 21.6%, which help to play a leading role on the improvement of service industry. Now, the tourism industry pattern of Chenzhou city has almost been take shape: leisure vacation in central urban area, lake side leisure vacation in east area, mountainous and forest leisure in south area, water and Danxia leisure in north area, hot spring and fitness in southeast area, and folk &fitness in west area. All the six leisure tourism products form a characteristic system of Chenzhou city.

It was introduced by Chenzhou Tourism and Foreign Affair Bureau that Chenzhou Party Committee and Chenzhou Government tried best to improve tourism industry to be strategic pillar industry of transformation development and leading industry of modern service industry. It was covered into the comprehensive assessment of Chenzhou Government as “chief” project, which greatly helped to promote the tourism industry. In last year, Chenzhou held China Chenzhou International Leisure Tourism and Culture Festival with the theme of “city in the forest, leisure city”. The large-scale live-action performance of “Feitian- Suxian” was performed during the festival. “Catering, accommodation, traffic, travelling, shopping, and entertainment”- the six basic elements were kept being improved in Chenzhou city, while some more expanded elements as “culture, commerce, fitness, scholar, leisure, passion, style, rare”, and etc. were being taken shape. 

Furthermore, the investment attraction of tourism is becoming better. Beijing Shunfeng Group is working together with Suxian district for the improvement of Feitian Mountain Landscape, Guangdong Changlu Group is working on the construction of Changlu International Tourism Leisure Resort, and some more projects as Wugaishan International Hunting Field, Tongyuan Group “Linyi Acient City”, Xianling Lake Tongtu International Auto Camp, and etc. have been settled the agreements. In the meantime, Great East Hunan Cultural Tourism Economic Belt Alliance was fully launched in Chenzhou city, which would help to promote the cooperation of large area.

Thanks to the improvement of infrastructures, the development of tourism industry is being facilitated with solid foundation. Huangmang tourism road covered with 460milllion yuan investment has been placed to operation; 320million yuan was placed on the infrastructures of East Gate of Feitian Mountain; series characteristic leisure hotels were being opened to public, which helped to improve the reception capacity of tourism industry; 3-year action of “toilet revolution” of tourism industry was launched as well, which helped to rebuild more than 200　 tourism toilets in one year and enabled to be awarded as advanced city by the State Tourism Bureau; some public service signage were placed on inter-city arterial highways, bus stations, and west station of high-speed train.