The National Tourism Standardization Technical Committee recently announced the third batch of 46 national civilized tourism demonstration units. The Memorial Museum of Comrade Liu Shaoqi and the Mangshan National Forest Park in Hunan Province were shortlisted.

The Memorial Museum of Comrade Liu Shaoqi. (Photo provided by the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism)

The Memorial Museum of Comrade Liu Shaoqi is located in Huaminglou Town, Ningxiang City, Changsha City. The museum is a national center for collecting and studying the cultural relics of Liu Shaoqi and an ideological publicity base. It has been awarded titles of the National Patriotism Education Demonstration Base, the National First-class Museum, the National Clean Government Education Base, the National 5A-level Tourist Attraction, and the National Primary and Secondary School Students' Research and Practice Education Base. Covering an area of 1,300 mu (about 86 hectares), the museum mainly includes memorial venues such as the Former Residence of Comrade Liu Shaoqi, the gatehouse square of Liu Shaoqi's hometown, the bronze statue square, the exhibition hall of Liu Shaoqi's life and achievements, the dedicated hall of the Liu Shaoqi's labor movement, the Liu Shaoqi cultural relics protection center, and the former site of Comrade Liu Shaoqi's alma mater—Tanzichong School. The museum also encompasses tourist attractions such as Huaming Tower, Self-Cultivation Pavilion, Wande Tripod, Yiye Lake, Anhu Pond, and Tanzichong Folk Culture Village. All of these have transformed the Huaminglou Scenic Area into a place of cultural significance, harmonious landscapes, and beautiful scenery.

Mangshan National Forest Park. (Photo/Guo Liliang)

Mangshan National Forest Park is located in Yizhang County, Chenzhou City, with a total area of 198.33 square kilometers and a forest coverage rate of 99.01%. The park boasts the largest and most well-preserved primitive evergreen broad-leaved forests and abundant animal and plant resources in the same latitude zone of the earth, and is dubbed as a "green pearl in the same latitude zone of the earth" and a "flora and fauna gene bank". Mangshan Mountain is a tourist resort with an excellent ecological environment, and has been rated as a national 4A-level scenic spot, a national popular science education base, a provincial ecological civilization education base, and one of the top ten summer resorts in Hunan. In addition, Wuzhifeng Scenic Area, the core scenic spot of Mangshan National Forest Park, has been built into the first mountain-type scenic spot in China that provides barrier-free travel for tourists through cableways, barrier-free plank roads, elevators, escalators, hoisters, stair-climbing machines and other facilities.

责编：唐煜斯

一审：唐煜斯

二审：秦慧英

三审：禹振华

来源：湖南省政府门户网