2016-11-15 14:01:22

“With the construction of ecological landscape corridor, tourists will change their ‘fast-food’ travelling style---going straight to the destination, and slow down their pace and turn into city rambling mode of walking tour", said Zhou Zhengying, the vice Mayor of Yichang City when he attended a site meeting on Yichang Ecological Corridor Construction held in The Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County on November 10th. In this year, Yichang will focus on building “double twelve” safe tourism landscape greenways, namely, 12 urban recreational greenway systems and 12 tourist city greenway systems “along the waterfront, by mountains, between cities and sceneries, ”
Necklace stringed sceneries in urban and rural areas.
In April of this year, Yichang municipal government put forward the concept of building landscape corridor, and planned to put a brand-new look on the main roads between urban areas, other counties and rural districts on the basis of the existing traffic facility, by renovating road, optimizing landscape, improving the directional signs, and building viewing platform, temporary parking, sanitation facilities and related services.
Seizing the chance of building a self-driving travel base, Wufeng has drawn a blueprint of three-hundred-meter tourism strategy in Wuling, with global tourism as the core, and ecological landscape corridor as the axis. At present, the first-stage project of 351 ecological landscape corridors has been completed. Yuan’an has also planned to build a 56 km-long loop greenway for leisure and tourism, which consists of Hedang Road and three core scenic spots including Rokuonji, Mingfeng Mountain, and Jinjiawan. Currently, a 10-kilometer–long field marathon greenway from Jinjiawan to Mingfeng Mountain has begun to be built for the second International Field Marathon in the March of next year. 
Based on the overall urban and rural demonstration zone in Xiaoya Road, the development axis in Yixing Yiling Road, and 6 rural tourism routes, Yiling area has planned to build eight tourist ecological landscape corridors , including "Hundreds of Xiajiang" "Field Pastoral’’ and " Three Gorges Tea Valley" .
Beautiful sceneries in 24 ecological landscape corridors
 “This' double twelve 'landscape corridor will enhance the leisure tourism, fitness, sharing and other functions, so that visitors can better achieve the aims of being close to nature and gaining physical and mental relaxation in comfortable and convenient trip both in urban and rural area", said Kong Leiru, the Party secretary of Municipal Tourism Commission   .
It is said that those 12 urban leisure greenways are composed of  “five belts and seven corridors” which are vertical or parallel to the Yangtze River. The “Five belts” refers to the five waterfront leisure landscape belts which are based on five water systems and river regulation project and are in fact five waterfront leisure greenways with a total length of 116 km. The “Seven corridors” refers to the seven urban sport and leisure greenways which are based on the expressway network and the trunk road along Yanjiang Road and Xiaoya Road, and aims to grow into seven urban leisure greenways with full-length 335.5 km, focusing on the leisure and sports function.
Relying on the existing land and water transportation, the 12 Leisure Green Roads of the city will optimize the landscape along the line by equipping the line with scenery-viewing platform, temporary parking zone, sanitation facilities and related services so as to build the “Two Loops and Ten Belts”. The “Two Loops” refers to the suburban leisure landscape corridor loop with a total length of 183 km and the eco-tourism landscape corridor loop with a total length of 723 km, connecting cities like Dangyang, Zhijiang, Yidu, Wufeng, Changyang, Zigui, Xingshan and other peripheral cities. The "Ten Belts" refers to the 10 external tourism ecological landscape corridors, which take the central suburb as a starting point and exert a radiation influence on the 10 surrounding peripheral tourism greenway of the counties by relying on the existing national, provincial, county road, rural highway, and waterway. This "Ten Belts" will connect the central city, peripheral counties and several important scenic along the way with a total length of 1156 km, including the Three Gorges Dam and the Qingjiang Gallery, the Three Gorges Waterfalls, Chaibuxi, Che Xi etc.
These 24 landscape corridors after the completion will be equipped with the slow-traffic system, transportation connection system, service facility system and tag system for the final purpose of constructing a safe tourism system “Along the waterfront, surrounded by mountains, connecting the cities and the sceneries”,.
Beautiful corridors required with synchronously improved facilities.
Improved corresponding facilities are indispensible for a high quality tourism experience. Therefore, in this year, Yichang city has issued “Green Road System Construction Implementation Plan”, which requires that all tourism highways above second-class shall be turned into new asphalt road, 4G communication network, WiFi shall be accessible to those tourism areas. In addition, it is necessary to improve the logo signs along the roads, the construction of parking lot, public toilets, tourism consulting service center, viewing platform.
"Next year, we will provide tourists with city sightseeing buses, recommend lines for the on-foot tourists, and constantly enrich the tourism products for the city." In the conference, the vice Mayor Zhou Zhengying also proposed the new task of the tourism development.
She emphasized that the concerned sectors should take full responsibility of construction and management, striving for the completion of the task in 2017 according to the strict construction standards. At the same time, she proposed that the key tourism work of next year will aim at fostering more higher qualified tourist destinations with abundant resources and expanding Yichang’ tourism influence by adhering to the principles of highlighting protection, naturalness, and optimization as well as being deliberative to build new sceneries, human intervention and dismantlement. She said that efforts should also be made to increase tourist satisfaction in all tourism areas with ecological landscape corridors as the focus, and to achieve the great transformation of tourism development with the resort basic facilities as the core..
 (Reporter Wang Ying, correspondent Shi Zhan)