According to incomplete statistics, 38 new tourism projects started construction in August. Among them, Guangdong, Hubei, and Zhejiang ranked the top three in terms of the number of projects started; 10 projects had investments exceeding 1 billion yuan.

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Start Date: August 3

Project Location: Jinhua, Zhejiang

Investment Amount: 1.28 billion yuan

Investor: Jinhua City Investment Group

The project covers approximately 400 mu. Adhering to the "forest hot spring" concept, starting from the Wuyi Hot Spring Resort, relying on the local natural mountains and water resources, with hot springs as the core and mountains and water as the foundation, integrating local culture, intangible cultural heritage, and national tide culture elements, deeply developing diversified product lines of "tourism" integration, introducing the five-star hotel brand Huanglong Hotel under Hangshang Travel Group, aiming to create a large-scale hot spring tourism and health complex integrating hot spring health, leisure vacation, and parent-child entertainment.

Tianmu Hot Spring Hotel Upgrading Project

Start Date: August 3

Project Location: Jingshan, Hubei

Investment Amount: 141 million yuan

Investor: Jingshan Jinglv Resort Hotel Co., Ltd.

The project covers approximately 76 mu, mainly constructing a new hot spring hall, renovating a seven-story parent-child hotel, and constructing roads and landscaping; adding guest room equipment, catering kitchen equipment, children's amusement facilities, and a centralized hotel hot water system.

Hefei "North Fantasy City" Art Center Project

Start Date: August 8

Project Location: Hefei, Anhui

Investor: Anhui Xinhua Distribution (Group) Holding Co., Ltd., Changfeng County People's Government, Hefei

The Hefei "North Fantasy City" Art Center project is located in the center of the north city, bordering Shuangdun Road to the north, Meichong Lake Road to the south, Mengcheng North Road to the west, and Fuyang North Road to the east, with a total area of approximately 1380 mu. This project transforms the old factory building of the original Ha螺 Cement Plant into the "North Fantasy City" Art Center, planned as three major areas and five major sections.     

Guangdong Provincial National Defense Education Base

Start Date: August 8

Project Location: Meizhou, Guangdong

Investment Amount: 2.38 billion yuan

Investor: Guangdong Tourism Control Group

The Guangdong Provincial National Defense Education Base has a planned total land area of approximately 2000 mu. The base mainly serves to support military training for college students, expanding and extending military research and study, geological science popularization, and other diversified functions, creating a comprehensive tourism project integrating national defense education, student military training, and ecological tourism.

Zhanjiang Bay Cultural Tourism Infrastructure and Supporting Project Water Tourism Supporting Project

Start Date: August 9

Project Location: Zhanjiang, Guangdong

The Zhanjiang Bay Cultural Tourism Infrastructure and Supporting Project, through the acceptance and placement of decommissioned land, sea, and air equipment and the construction of supporting park facilities, creates a project mainly featuring decommissioned Kilo class submarines and the decommissioned "Zhanjiang Ship" warship, with the port city and one bay and two banks as the background, integrating the latest high-tech elements and green low-carbon technologies, is an immersive military-themed tourism project integrating coastal tourism, research and study experience, and military activity experience.

Xinjiang Mangrove International Ski Resort Project

Start Date: August 11

Project Location: Urumqi, Xinjiang

Investment Amount: 1 billion yuan

Investor: Jindien Group

The Xinjiang Mangrove International Ski Resort will integrate skiing, leisure, vacation, and entertainment, creating a well-known tourism and leisure destination at home and abroad. Zones A and B have a planned area of 3100 mu, and will construct snowfields, hotels, ski equipment halls, reception halls, and supporting service facilities. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed and put into operation by the end of 2024.

Tianmu Lake Animal Kingdom Tourism Complex Project

Start Date: August 15

Project Location: Changzhou, Jiangsu

Investment Amount: 3.55 billion yuan

Investor: Jiangsu Tianmu Lake Animal Kingdom Tourism Co., Ltd.

The Tianmu Lake Animal Kingdom Tourism Complex project covers an area of approximately 1800 mu, located in the scenic Tianmu Lake Tourism Resort. The project features "animals + amusement", aiming to create a comprehensive tourism destination integrating viewing, entertainment, interaction, and leisure, bringing visitors a rich and colorful viewing and interactive experience. At the same time, it will also introduce advanced amusement equipment, as well as various cultural and creative performances and reality shows, allowing visitors to experience the unique charm of the Tianmu Lake Animal Kingdom in an immersive experience.

Yaozhihe Yaoshen Tianchi Cultural Tourism Project

Start Date: August 16

Project Location: Xiangyang, Hubei

Investment Amount: 1.02 billion yuan

The Yaozhi River and Yao Shen Tianchi Cultural Tourism Project covers approximately 300 mu (about 20 hectares). The project will be constructed in four phases, encompassing several sections including a folk culture park, Yao Shen Tianchi (Yao God Celestial Pond), a water curtain city wall, a starry sky campsite, and a Yao Shen academy. It aims to create a comprehensive cultural tourism destination integrating leisure, entertainment, and sightseeing.

Hangzhou Tonglu Xiaoyuanxi Mountain and Water Sports Park

Commencement Date: August 22

Project Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province

Investment Amount: 3.2 billion yuan

Investor: Hangzhou Xiaoyuanxi Cultural Tourism Industry Co., Ltd.

The Tonglu Xiaoyuanxi Mountain and Water Sports Park is located in Fengchuan Street Sanxin Village ，with a total area of 5.15 square kilometers. The overall park will center around the Xiaoyuanxi ecological landscape, drawing inspiration from Rich Spring Residence, the ancient culture of Tongjun Old Man, hermit culture, and stories from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It will feature immersive experiences, incorporating light and shadow effects. This includes a 220-mu (about 15 hectares) water park (equivalent to 21 football fields), treetop hotels, infinity pools, mine valley flower borders, and a phantom forest, forming a comprehensive leisure and vacation product system for all ages and times of day. The goal is to create a national-level mountain and water sports park with unique Tonglu cultural characteristics.

Zhonggou Hetai Taibai Mountain Cuiwei Project

Commencement Date: August 23

Project Location: Baoji, Shaanxi Province

Investment Amount: 1.8 billion yuan

Investor: Shaanxi Zhonggou Hetai Construction Co., Ltd., Taibai Mountain Tourism Zone Management Committee

The project covers a total area of approximately 260 mu (about 17 hectares), with a planned total construction area of approximately 230,000 square meters. It will create a tourism, business, health, and commerce integrated resort town, featuring six product types: commercial courtyards, a five-star international resort spa hotel, a lake-center island, fourth-generation green and healthy residences, health-care stacked villas, and terraced villas.

Xicheng Mountain Scenic Area Passenger Ropeway Project

Commencement Date: August 23

Project Location: Jincheng, Shanxi Province

Investment Amount: 210 million yuan

The project plans to build two new ropeways totaling approximately 3.6 kilometers at the north and east gates of the Xicheng Mountain Scenic Area. This will provide panoramic high-altitude views, organically connecting alpine meadows, Danxia landforms, and Zhangshiyan landforms. It will also complement the dragon-shaped mountain, the Heavenly Palace Yaochi, and the Liuyu Ruins, offering a three-dimensional tourism model and a new travel experience.

Beiguangwan Agricultural Tourism and Health Care Project

Commencement Date: August 25

Project Location: Jiangmen, Guangdong Province

Investment Amount: 120 million yuan

Investor: Beiguangwan Agricultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd.

The Beiguangwan Agricultural Tourism and Health Care Project covers more than 130 mu (about 9 hectares) and is planned for construction in three phases. The project will encompass several functional sections, including leisure tourism, agricultural sightseeing, agricultural experiences, agricultural exchanges, characteristic homestays, and a cultural amusement park, forming a complete characteristic agricultural tourism area. Phase one will focus on building an agricultural amusement park, an ecological art convenience store, a rural train, wooden walkways, viewing paths, and 52 small wooden houses, creating a "hidden in the mountains, open to the mist" atmosphere, aiming to build Guangdong's Bama longevity tourism destination.

Hengshan Fantasi Cultural Tourism and Health Care Industrial Park Project

Commencement Date: August 28

Project Location: Hengyang, Hunan Province

Investment Amount: 10 billion yuan

Investor: Bangkok Wild World (Public) Co., Ltd., Phuket FantaSea (Public) Co., Ltd., Kunming Yiding Tourism Industry Co., Ltd.

The Hengshan Fantasi Cultural Tourism and Health Care Industrial Park has a total land area of 6,000 mu (about 400 hectares). Based on the Phuket FantaSea theme park in Thailand, the project is a comprehensive amusement project themed around animal interaction, modern technology, education and science, tourism catering, ecology, and cultural leisure and health care.

Huangshi Zhongdu Cultural Tourism Integrated Project

Commencement Date: August 28

Project Location: Huangshi, Hubei Province

Investment Amount: Nearly 1.5 billion yuan

Investor: Zhongdu Group

The Huangshi Zhongdu Cultural Tourism Integrated Project covers approximately 112.9 mu (about 7.5 hectares), with a total construction area of approximately 250,000 square meters. It includes two main parts: the approximately 80,000-square-meter five-star "Zhongdu Wyndham Hotel" and the approximately 170,000-square-meter bookish and humanistic community "Zhongdu Tianxi". The hotel will be built to international five-star standards and will become a modern international leisure resort center integrating leisure vacation, business conferences, health and wellness, star-rated hotels, and comprehensive supporting facilities. It is planned to be completed and put into operation in October 2026.

Hehe Xili Phase I Project

Commencement Date: August

Project Location: Wuhan, Hubei Province

Investment Amount: 120 million yuan

Investor: Wuhan Changhe Cultural Tourism Investment Management Co., Ltd.

The Hehe Xili Phase I Project is located in Shigang Village, Suohe Street, on the north bank of the Suozi Changhe River. It covers an area of 6,432 square meters, with a planned construction area of 30,129 square meters. It is a comprehensive cultural tourism project integrating culture, tourism, leisure, and vacation. The project adopts a design concept of "one axis, two cores, and four zones," relying on the cultural tourism development axis and centering around the waterfront resort core and Zen culture core. It is divided into four functional zones: lake field leisure experience zone, 1980s rural life zone, modern agricultural supporting zone, and mountain forest Zen quiet cultivation zone. The aim is to create a high-quality, composite tourism and leisure destination in the suburbs of Wuhan.

Mu Chuan Man Life Phase II Project

Commencement Date: August

Project Location: Wuhan, Hubei Province

Investment Amount: 120 million yuan

Investor: Wuhan Mu Chuan Ecological Tourism Development Co., Ltd.

The planned land area for the Mu Chuan Man Life Phase II Project is approximately 32,000 square meters. It plans to adopt a "campsite +" theme, expanding the development of new industries such as water entertainment, agricultural and forestry experiences, characteristic homestays, and resort hotels.