Tongliang district tourism

Tongliang District is an administrative unit located in the lower jurisdiction of Chongqing, with an area of about 2,544.9 square kilometers. It is an ancient cultural city with a long history. Tongliang District was once a place for smelting copper in history, hence its name "Tongliang", and it is also one of the few districts and counties with copper cultural characteristics in Chongqing. Tongliang District is located in the hinterland of the Three Gorges reservoir area of the Yangtze River, with beautiful scenery and abundant natural resources.

Today, Tongliang District has become a comprehensive area integrating industry, agriculture and tourism. In 2018, the GDP of Tongliang District reached 25.6 billion yuan and the total investment in fixed assets was 14.7 billion yuan. In recent years, Tongliang District has continuously strengthened information construction and the development of high-tech industries, and vigorously promoted the integrated development of tourism and agriculture. At the same time, Tongliang District has attracted more and more investors and tourists to invest and travel through deepening reform and opening up.

With the continuous development of Chongqing, Tongliang District has increasingly become an important sub-center of Chongqing. In the future, Tongliang District plans to accelerate the construction of modern industrial system and build it into a national advanced manufacturing base, a western agricultural product processing and export base and an innovative service industry core area. By promoting the integrated development of tourism, culture, science and technology, education and other industries, it will gradually become an influential region in the country. At the same time, Tongliang District will also actively respond to the problems of population aging and urbanization, further improve the social security system, improve the level of urban management, and strive to create an ecologically livable urban area that is livable, suitable for business and suitable for tourism.

West Hot Spring is located at the foot of Bayue Mountain in Tongliang County, Chongqing, where the peaks are steep and overlapping, the bamboo trees are lush and the vines are full of green screens, also known as West Hot Spring Mountain. West Hot Spring is located in Wentang Gorge, the west mouth of the canyon, and there is a hot spring that gushes all the year round and the sunrise water is more than 2,000 tons. Because the spring is as warm as soup, it was called Tangquan, Tangxia and Tangxiakou earlier. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the spring was located in the west of Chongqing, the capital of Chongqing, and it was called West Hot Spring. The water quality of West Hot Spring is good, containing sulfur, calcium, potassium, magnesium and other elements, belonging to sulfur mineral spring; The water temperature is around 35℃ all the year round, which is suitable for warm bath and swimming. Wentang Gorge of XiWenQuan Mountain, only 60 kilometers away from Chongqing, is the most beautiful and unique section of National Highway 319. It has the advantages of mountains, steep cliffs and bamboo cultivation in Maolin, and the beauty of swimming and summer vacation created by XiWenQuan, the highest elevation among the four famous springs in Chongqing. Its scenic spots include one of the four famous springs, West Hot Springs, Tieweizhai, Martyrs Cemetery, White Rock, Shamaoshi, Dengjiagou Bamboo Forest, Jiangjiawan Waterfall, Taiyangping, Sanchagou, Yangtianwo Cave, Nantianmen, Qinglong Lake, Lin Mansion of Kuomintang Chairman Linsen Summer Resort, Bai Chongxi Summer Resort, a senior Kuomintang general, and Bai Chongxi's mother's tomb.

Western hot springs were developed earlier among the four hot springs, but in the past, there were fewer tourists because of inconvenient transportation. In recent years, with the restoration of Guxi Hot Spring and the construction of the adjacent Zhonghua Long Hot Spring Resort, the concept of West Hot Spring is no longer limited to the original area. Located at the foot of Bayue Mountain in Tongliang, there are several large-scale resort hotels that can receive tourists, and the neighboring Qinglong Lake, Bayue Mountain and Tongnan Giant Buddha are also good places for leisure and holiday. In addition, visitors can also enjoy the ancient Tongliang dragon culture and visit the famous Shuangjiang and Anju ancient towns.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government moved inward, because the spring was located in the west of Chongqing, and it was called West Hot Spring. At that time, military and political dignitaries built villas in the gorge, which was both beautiful in air defense and summer vacation, so the value of the west hot spring increased sharply. According to the person in charge of Chongqing Guxi Hot Spring Tourism Development Company, during this period, Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, Zhang Qun and patriotic generals Feng Yuxiang and Zhang Zhizhong all visited Xiquan for many times.

Lin Sen, chairman of the National Government, chose the "Wangxiangtai" on Eagle Ridge to build the "Lin Mansion", which can have a bird's eye view of the farmland below the mountain in the south and look at Huangjiapo in the front. A thousand-year-old maple tree nearby and the surrounding bamboo forests add endless beautiful scenery to Lin Mansion.

Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff of the Kuomintang Military Commission, took a fancy to the natural scenery of Tangxiakou, and built a "White Mansion" near the west stream in the gorge, and built a rectangular pavilion named "Wan Lai Pavilion" in the place where the mountains and rivers flowed and the noise was the loudest, where he enjoyed himself, read books, read official documents and received visitors. After Bai Chongxi's mother died, she was buried near Lin Mansion and Bai Mansion.

Qian Dajun, director of the Attendant Office of the Kuomintang Military Commission, also chose the place east of Wenquankou and built the "Qian Mansion".

At that time, Bai Chongxi and Qian Dajun founded Xiquan Primary School near the hot springs. In 1942, Xiquan Middle School was founded in Li Jiawan, the west mouth of the canyon, with Bai Chongxi as the chairman and Qian Dajun as the principal. Recruit well-known teachers to teach, with the motto of being rigid (will), sincere (quality), ambitious (ideal) and resolute (style), and the school is quite distinctive. Here, Zhang Yonghui, an old paper-making expert, thought that Xiquan area was clear in water quality and rich in bamboo production, and raised funds to set up an experimental paper factory.

West Hot Spring Swimming Pool has been selected as the base for training swimmers by provinces, prefectures and counties since the 1960s. After 81 years, the county invested, and the city allocated funds for expansion and renovation, adding swimming facilities, etc. Now the swimming pool area is 1600 square meters. It receives more than 2,000 foreign guests every year, trains more than 80 swimming students every year, and accepts more than 360 students from inside and outside the province for short training. The trainees trained here have won more than 150 gold medals.

Xiquan Gorge is rich in peaks and valleys, rich in bamboo and wood, clean in spring water and picturesque in landscape. Anyone who drives through the canyon will feel the feeling of "suspecting the scenery of Wuxia Gorge and looking into it". In addition, there are many "capital culture" sites here, which makes this unique natural hot spring have great development prospects. In Dongshanli, where the West Hot Spring is located, drive to the top of the mountain, and then turn left into another scenic spot-Xiquan Erdaohe Scenic Area-Bishan Qinglong Lake. There are beautiful scenery, which is an excellent place for summer camping.