Guanshanhu achieves success in tourism, sports integration

Children avidly read books at the local community's cultural service center, during the summer vacation. [Photo/guanshanhu.gov.cn]

Over the past five years, the Guanshanhu district of Guiyang – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – has made major progress in integrating its tourism and sports endeavors.

To that end, it has moved to develop tourism and sports infrastructure, organized public cultural and sports activities, leveraged its rich cultural heritage and innovated in its tourism sector.

By the end of 2019, Guanshanhu had fully utilized its cultural publicity, education and fitness resources by establishing cultural service centers in villages and communities.

At the conclusion of last year, all its sub-districts had access to fitness facilities and the average area of sports venues per person had reached 2.21 square meters. In addition, the completion of Guanshanhu ecological sports park and the second stage of the Guiyang Olympic Sports Center will further boost the district's culture and sports industries.

Using major festivals as opportunities, Guanshanhu organized cultural activities that were warmly received by local residents, enabling them to join in with the creation of a harmonious community.

From 2016 to 2020, Guanshanhu organized more than 300 cultural and sports activities and competitions, attracting online audiences of 150,000 and 60,000 people to participate in person.

Guanshanhu also focuses on the protection and use of cultural heritage. The district currently has 10 municipal-protected historical and cultural sites and is home to 11 items of intangible cultural heritage.

The tourist volume in Guanshanhu increased from 4.55 million visitors in 2016 to 9.8 million in 2020, along with the tourism revenue, which during the same period surged from 5.37 billion yuan ($829.27 million) to 13.45 billion yuan.