Rongshui County held a tourism seminar on November 4, 2014, with focus on the summary of tourism work in 2014 and the deployment of key tasks in the future. Rongshui County has invested 140 million yuan to tourism projects and reached letters of intent for investment in tourism with over 3 billion yuan from January to October this year. At the same time, it received over 2 million tourists and the gross income of tourism was 1.113 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 48% and 97.43% respectively.
The financial budget of the government of Rongshui County at the corresponding level prepared 12 million yuan for building famous tourism county with Guangxi characteristics, 9 million of which was used. Besides, non-governmental capital investment helped the projects carry on smoothly. Projects of the sight-seeing trail, wood-like fence, tourists center, parking lot and viewing platform of Longnvgou Scenic Area were completed and put into operation. The Scenic Area reopened with a new look on September 28, 2014. The upgrading project of Qingshanzhai Village has completed the change of house styles, the greening of village, the repairing of roads, and the construction of horse-fighting arena, Lusheng level ground and Lusheng pillar. The appearance and style of the village takes on a new look. 25.6 million yuan has been invested to the tourism highway from Baizhu Village to Yuanbao Mountain in Baiping Village in 2014, finishing 69% of the investment task of annual plan.
Next, priority will be given to the tourism route from the county to Yuanbao Mountain. Effort will be made to improve all the intersection points on the tourism route. The two core areas may drive the development of tourism. Moreover, Rongshui County will take the construction of projects as the main task and focus on relevant work like planning, packaging, declaration and management of projects, so as to promote the sound and rapid development of tourism.