Yongquan Town, covering an area of 9000 acres, was initiated by the farmer entrepreneur Mr. Yang Shugen with an investment of 1.5 billion yuan. Over 20 years, on a former abandoned mine, a unique town integrating tourism, leisure vacation, and hot spring health care has been established.
Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River in Tongling City, Anhui Province, Yongquan Town boasts convenient transportation with highways and high-speed railways intersecting in all directions. It is 1 kilometer from the highway exit and 7 kilometers from the high-speed train station.
The town features various tourist and vacation projects such as the Memories of Jiangnan 12 Scenes, Jiangnan Flavors, Jiangnan Courtyards, Jiubao Hot Springs, homestays, and Jiangnan Fairy Tales, forming a four-in-one vacation destination that offers ‘exploring Jiangnan landscapes, appreciating Jiangnan gardens, tasting Jiangnan cuisine, and staying in Jiangnan homes.’ It is also a tourism and vacation base that integrates health culture, architectural culture, catering culture, and ecological culture.
Yongquan Town is now a National AAAA-level tourist attraction, a National Five-Diamond hotel, a National Second-Class tourist homestay, a provincial tourist resort, an ‘Anhui Sunshine Home’ for mothers and babies, an Anhui Province worker’s rest and recuperation base, an Anhui Province consumer trust demonstration unit, an Anhui Province forest health care base, an Anhui Province rural tourism trunk project base, a leading enterprise in Anhui Province’s forest industry, a quality benchmark unit for tourism in Anhui Province, a model unit for study tourism in Anhui Province, one of the top ten new online check-in spots for tourism in Anhui in 2020, an Anhui Province Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base, a third prize winner for tourism creative marketing in Anhui Province, an Anhui Province civilized tourism demonstration unit, a meritorious enterprise in Anhui Province’s catering industry, a trademark brand demonstration enterprise in Anhui Province, and has received the Tongling City Women’s Civilization Post, the 8th Mayor’s Quality Award in Tongling City, and is a practice base for research education for primary and secondary school students in Tongling City.
The town, primarily styled on Jiangnan gardens, features four core scenic and sightseeing areas: homestay hotels, Jiangnan Flavors, Memories of Jiangnan 12 Scenes, and health hot springs, and serves as a cooperation base for various units, including the Jiangsu TV station’s outdoor shooting base, the Tongling City Photographers Association shooting base, the Tongling City Model Association training base, and the Tongling City Children’s Outdoor Activity Expansion Base.
