How is Benxi City, Liaoning Province?

Benxi enjoys the reputation of "Prince City", "Northeast Mountain City" and "Shengjing Back Garden". On the fertile northeastern plain, Benxi attracts many tourists for sightseeing and tourism with its unique mountain city landform. Benxi is located in the southeast of Liaoning Province (123°34'~125°46' east longitude, 40°49'~41°35' north latitude), with a total area of ??8411.3 square kilometers, distributed in a subbell shape, and the natural landform is "Eight Mountains" One water divides the fields, and the other half divides the roads and estates." It borders Shenyang and Fushun to the north (77 kilometers from Shenyang and 79 kilometers from Fushun), Dandong to the south (198 kilometers from Dandong), Liaoyang (46 kilometers from Liaoyang) and Anshan to the west, and Jilin (Benxi (11 photos) from Tonghua) to the east. 150 kilometers).

Benxi belongs to the moderate temperate climate zone, with an average temperature of 6.1 to 7.8 degrees Celsius. The average temperature in July, the hottest month, is 24.3 degrees Celsius; in January, the coldest month, the average temperature is minus 14.3 degrees Celsius. Rainfall is relatively abundant, with an average annual rainfall of 800-1000 mm, half of which is concentrated in July and August in summer. Throughout the year, spring is sunny and sunny, summer is slightly hot and rainy, autumn is sunny and crisp, and winter is freezing and snowy. The best tourist season is autumn

City of Maple Leaf

On September 8, 2011, Benxi City was officially named the "Maple Leaf Capital of China" by the State Council! [16]

The Maple Leaf Festival showcases the tourism image of Benxi City, becomes a popular business card of Benxi, and serves as a window and bridge for Benxi to go to the country and even the world.

Benxi maple leaves are a unique seasonal landscape in the Benxi mountainous area. The trees, flowers, water and clouds in the Guanmen Mountain area of ??Benxi are beautiful. Every September when the maple leaves turn red, the maple leaves all over the mountains and plains turn red. When the water turns red, the sky turns red. Compared with the famous Beijing Xiangshan Red Leaves, it is larger in scale and more numerous. It is a rare plant seasonal landscape in Northeast China.

Every year during the Benxi Maple Leaf Festival, tourists come from all over to Benxi to see the red mountains. In addition to tourists from all over the Northeast, there are also tourists from all over the country and abroad. The Maple Leaf Festival has brought considerable economic benefits to the people of Benxi City. It receives nearly one million tourists every year and generates tourism revenue of more than 200 million yuan.

On September 20, 2012, the official Weibo opening ceremony of "Benxi, the Maple Leaf Capital of China" Sina.com was held in Beijing. At the same time, the Maple Leaf Festival Organizing Committee had a big screen in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Release the promotional video "Magic Landscape - Benxi, the City of Maple Leaf",[1] and sincerely invite friends from all over the country to enjoy the beautiful maple leaves of Benxi.

Since 1998, Benxi City has held seven "Maple Leaf Festivals" using maple leaves as matchmakers. In 2013, the Benxi "Maple Leaf Festival" was upgraded to a national tourism festival and became the "Maple Leaf Capital of China". "With the establishment of "Benxi City's tourism industry has developed rapidly, maintaining an average annual growth rate of more than 30%. The average annual number of tourist receptions has exceeded 10 million, and the revenue has exceeded 10 billion yuan, of which Maple Leaf tourism revenue accounts for 40% of the city's total tourism revenue. %, it can be seen that Maple Leaf Tourism has become the pillar and brand of Benxi’s tourism industry.

Why does Benxi have so many beautiful maple trees? Benxi City has dense forest resources, 80% of which are natural forests. The forestry department attaches great importance to the protection of natural forests. A large number of maple trees "proliferate" here, and their scale is getting larger and larger. Forestry experts have commented on this. Through artificial promotion, some maple trees distributed in the mountain forests were introduced to the landscape belt and both sides of the road, which further increased their ornamental value.

The maple leaves begin to turn red in early October. The redness of maple leaves mainly depends on the weather. If the temperature is too high, the color of maple leaves will still be green. If the temperature is close to zero, the maple leaves will turn yellow or even wither.

Benxi Water Cave is a world of discovery The longest underground water-filled cave, opened to the public in 1983; in 1994, it was approved as a national key scenic spot by the State Council of the People's Republic of China; in 1997, it was admitted as the first batch of members in Asia by the International Tourism Cave Association; in March 2002 In September, it was rated as an AAAA-level scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration and passed the ISO9002 quality system certification. The water cave attracts famous cave exploration enthusiasts at home and abroad to explore, and even Zhang Jian, who has crossed the English Channel, came to challenge it. The water tunnel covers an area of ??36,000 square meters and is 2,300 meters long. It is 35 kilometers northeast of Benxi City. The scenic area takes Benxi Water Cave as its main body, integrating mountains, water, caves, springs, lakes and ancient human cultural sites. The water cave is a large limestone water-filled cave formed millions of years ago. The cave is deep and wide and is the longest water-filled cave discovered in the world. The best time for maple leaves may be delayed or advanced depending on sudden changes in climate. According to previous practice, from early to mid-October every year, when the weather gets cooler, the color of maple leaves often changes from green to red. At that time, both sides of the Benhuan Highway from Benxi to Benxi County and Huanren County, As well as in other scenic spots such as Guanmen Mountain, you can see maple leaves all over the mountains and plains.

We learned from many travel agencies in Benxi City that from September to October every year, the number of tourists traveling to Benxi will experience a spurt of growth compared with normal days, and the vast majority of tourists are Many photographers came here to watch the maple leaves. They carried "long guns and short cannons" and lived in the mountains and forests for a week.