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2020 Nantong Rural Tourism Festival kicks off

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Updated: 2020-09-30

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The 2020 Nantong Rural Tourism Festival kicks off in Kaisha Island, Tongzhou district on Sept 29, showing the remarkable achievements of Nantong's rural tourism to local residents and travelers. [Photo/WeChat account: jstzrb]

The 2020 Nantong Rural Tourism Festival kicked off in Kaisha Island, Tongzhou district on Sept 29, showing the remarkable achievements of Nantong's rural tourism to local residents and travelers.

This year, the festival launched a boutique menu on rural tourism that reflects the characteristics of Nantong's four seasons. It covers nearly 20 events held in the city such as a characteristic rural village tour in Tongzhou district, the ocean hot spring tourism and culture festival in Rudong's Xiaoyangkou scenic area and Qidong's agritainment delicacy festival.

After many years' development, Nantong boasts three national key rural tourism villages, three Jiangsu key rural tourism villages, four national characteristic landscape tourism towns (villages), two demonstration sites of national agricultural tourism and over 100 various rural tourism areas.

In the first half year of 2020 Pingyuanchi village in Rugao and Sanyuan village in Rudong county were selected as national key rural tourism villages and Guzhuang village in Rugao, Shuangmeng village in Tongzhou district and Lianxinggang village in Qidong were named 2020 Jiangsu key rural tourism villages.

In recent years, Tongzhou district built a raft of distinct cultural and tourism projects, including five A-level scenic spots, a provincial resort, a national pilot site of industrial tourism, seven provincial star-level rural tourism areas, a provincial self-driving base, four provincial leisure agriculture quality villages and three provincial industrial tourism sites.