Tourism Resources in Yangling High-tech Demonstration Zone

Yangling is located in the middle of Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi, 82km east of Xi and 89km west of Baoji, with an area of 94km2 and a total population of 146000. The Eurasian Continental Bridge Longhai Railway Line, Xi 'an Security expressway and the Central Line Highway pass through the territory, and the tourist traffic is very convenient.

Yangling, with a long history and profound cultural background, is the birthplace of farming civilization in China. More than 4,000 years ago, Hou Ji, the ancestor of agriculture, "taught people to plow fields and grow crops" here, creating a precedent for China's farming civilization; 1On July 29th, 997, with the approval of the State Council, the National Yangling District was formally established in Yangling.

There are rich tourism resources around Yangling. It is adjacent to Xi- Xianyang Tourism Circle in the east, Famen Temple in the west, Taibai Mountain and Louguantai in the south and Ganling in the north. The tourism resources in this area are unique. It has the largest embryo cloned sheep base in the world, and the world's first somatic cloned sheep "Yang Yang" and its family were born here. Cloning technology reveals the mysterious origin of life; Agricultural Expo Park has the largest insect museum in Asia, with a collection of all kinds of insect specimens at home and abroad 1 10,000 pieces, which is the best place for people to understand the complicated and changeable insect world. The entertainment items in the water sports center are rich and colorful, and speedboats, cross-country karting, horse racing, archery, beaches, bathing places and couples' bicycles attract people who love nature. Soilless cultivation techniques and intelligent greenhouses in Xintiandi Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park and other bases vividly define modern high-tech agriculture and show the infinite charm of modern agricultural civilization.

In recent years, while improving the construction of urban infrastructure and tourism public facilities, the administrative committee of the demonstration zone has continuously increased the intensity of tourism development and construction, and actively developed the tourism industry with agricultural characteristics in accordance with the overall goal of building Yangling's superior brand of agricultural science and technology tourism and creating an excellent tourist city in China, forming four series of tourism products, namely, agricultural science and technology (comprehensive), exhibition business, leisure vacation and folk customs. At present, Yangling has become a new tourist city with sky blue, green land, blue water, bonus, lush vegetation, fresh air and pastoral scenery. There are 9 scenic spots, 6 star-rated tourist hotels, 1 travel company 1 home, 2 domestic travel agencies, and more than 0.8 million people directly to tourism professionals/kloc-0. In 2004, * * * received 6.5438+0.586 million Chinese and foreign tourists, and the comprehensive tourism income reached 248 million yuan.

Relying on the advantages of tourism environment, location, resources and talents, as the first batch of national agricultural tourism demonstration sites named by the National Tourism Administration, Yangling has gradually become a new highlight of holiday tourism in the western region. We believe that Yangling, as an important tourist destination in Shaanxi, will be more attractive with the opening of a large number of characteristic tourism boutique projects such as the Agricultural Expo Park and the National Youth Outdoor Sports Development Camp. We warmly welcome all tourists and friends to join the "Yangling-Agricultural City Tour", be guests in Yangling, enter science and experience modern agricultural civilization. Return to nature and enjoy the rural scenery of the city.