www.ndwww.cn (by Zhou Xiaojing, journalist from Ningde Evening) -- On January 1, Zhouning All-for-one Tourism and "Zhouning Alpine Cloud-mist Tea" Promotion Meeting was held in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. This promotion meeting was co-sponsored by Ningde Zhouning Tourism Development Committee, Zhouning Tea Management Bureau, and Zhouning Confederation of Trade Unions. More than five hundred people attended this grand meeting, including county sages and entrepreneurs in Guangdong, practitioners in tourism and tea industries, news reporters and Ningde Evening journalist.

"In Zhouning, there are beautiful mountains, beautiful waters and beautiful sceneries; this land nurtures people, tea and all creatures; it's a good place for living, business and touring," Ye Haowen, a standing member of Zhouning County Party Committee and director of the United Front Work Department in Zhouning, expressed on the promotion meeting; as an "Alpine Pearl" of the highest average altitude in Fujian Province, Zhouning is good for health presevation and suitable to be traveled all around the year. It has multiple famous scenic areas, like the "No.1 Waterfall in East China" Jiulongji waterfalls and "China's Wonder" Carp Brook, 2 national 5A scenic areas and 1 national 3A national area. Last year in July, "Zhouning Alpine Cloud-mist Tea" was authorized as a national geographical indication testimonial trademark. In recent years, under the guiding of All-for-one Tourism, Zhouning County has focused its efforts on industry development, infrastructure, livelihood cause, ecological environment, etc. to drive the integration development of tourism + agriculture and tourism + service industry.

Chen Xiaofang, the promoter of Zhouning tourism, gave a presentation of Zhouning All-for-one Tourism at the meeting, where she recommended several quality tourist routes to Zhouning specialized for tourist groups in Guangdong, released special promotion policies for the tickets of Carp Brook and Jiulongji scenic areas, and also introduced several tourism investment projects of great potential development value, such as Drip Rock -- Bat Cave Scenic Area, Louping Shimenshan Tourism, and Chenqiao Scenic Area.

Zhouning is a pilot county for Fujian All-for-one Tourism and also a landscape architecture county of Fujian. With an average altitude of 800m and an 888m high county seat, Zhouning ranks the first among all counties in Eastern China. Its average temperature in midsummer is only 24℃, which gives it the reputations of "Natural Air-conditioning City" and "Natural Oxygen Bar". This place has beautiful mountains and rivers, and graceful environments. In it, there are not only world famous Jiulongji, Carp Brook and Chenqiao scenic areas, but also a large sum of scenic spots, like Houlong Crayon, Qinshan Sky Lake, Drip Rock -- Bat Cave, Guanshan and Shimenshan. It has a long history and unique folk customs, including its special custom in fish caring and protecting, far-spreading Lingong beliefs, Fangguang Temple prays; there are also varied brilliant traditional cultures, such as ancient corridors, Beilu opera, bench dragon, and moving iron branch.

The natural environment of Zhouning also contributed to its possessing of abundant and characteristic products. The venue for this promotion meeting was permeated with tea fragrance, an indication of charisma and appeal of Zhouning tea.

This promotion meeting witnessed the entering into contracts between the representatives from the management committee of Zhouning Carp Brook -- Jiulongji Scenic Area and Zhouding travel agencies, and the representatives from Guangdong Pilot Self-driving Tour Association, Dongguan Industry Association of Travel Agencies and various other travel agencies in Guangdong, in attempts to co-build the reciprocal platform and assist the promotion of Zhouning All-for-one Tourism in Guangzhou. In addition, representatives from 10 tea enterprises in Zhouning County signed up strategic purchase agreements with enterprise representatives in Guangdong, which further improved the influence of the public brand "Zhouning Alpine Cloud-mist Tea".