Yongquan Town covers an area of 9,000 mu. It was financed by peasant entrepreneur Mr. Yang Shugen with 1.5 billion yuan. Over 20 years, on an abandoned mine, a characteristic town integrating tourism, leisure vacation, and hot spring health care has been created. Yongquan Town is located in the east of Tongling City, an ancient copper capital on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province. It has convenient transportation. Highways in north-south and east-west directions and high-speed railways in north-south and east-west directions all intersect here. It is 1 kilometer away from the highway exit and 7 kilometers away from the high-speed railway station. It has tourist and vacation projects such as Twelve Scenes of Recalling Jiangnan, Jiangnan Flavor, Jiangnan Courtyard, Jiubao Hot Spring, homestay hotels, and Jiangnan Fairy Tale, forming a vacation holy land integrating ‘visiting Jiangnan landscapes, seeing Jiangnan gardens, tasting Jiangnan flavors, and staying in Jiangnan families’. It is also a tourism and vacation base integrating health preservation culture, architectural culture, catering culture, and ecological culture. Yongquan Town is currently a national AAAA-level tourist scenic area, a national five-diamond hotel, a national Class B tourist homestay, a provincial-level tourist resort, Anhui Province’s ‘Sunny Home’ mother and baby room, Anhui Province’s staff recuperation base, an exemplary unit for assured consumption in Anhui Province, an Anhui Province forest health care base, an Anhui Province rural tourism trunk project base, a leading enterprise in Anhui Province’s forestry industrialization, an exemplary unit for tourism service quality in Anhui Province, an exemplary base for research and study tourism in Anhui Province, one of the top ten new online celebrity check-in places in Anhui tourism in 2020, an overseas Chinese international cultural exchange base in Anhui Province, the third prize for creative tourism marketing in Anhui Province, an exemplary unit for civilized tourism in Anhui Province, an Anhui catering meritorious enterprise, a certificate for an exemplary enterprise of trademark brands in Anhui Province, Tongling City’s women’s civilized post, Tongling City’s eighth mayor’s quality award, and Tongling City’s research and study education practice base for primary and secondary school students. With Jiangnan gardens as the main style, it has four core scenic areas and tourist areas including homestay hotels, Jiangnan Flavor, Twelve Scenes of Recalling Jiangnan, and health-preserving hot springs. It is a cooperation base for many units, including the outdoor shooting base of Jiangsu TV Station, the shooting base of Tongling Photographers Association, the training base of Tongling Model Association, and the children’s outdoor activity expansion base of Tongling City. Opening hours: Open all year round from 08:00 to 20:00. Winter time adjustment: Sightseeing time for Twelve Scenes of Recalling Jiangnan: Non-weekdays: 8:00 to 21:00. Weekends and holidays: 8:00 to 22:00. Operating hours of ladderway: Non-weekdays: 8:40 to 20:40. Weekends and holidays: 8:40 to 21:40. Operating hours of slideway: 8:50 to 16:50.
