A Brief Introduction of Jinhua Mountain

Jinhua Mountain tourism economic zone are has jurisdiction of two towns of Chisong and Luodian, 80 administrative villages with a total population of 56 thousand and a floating population of 15 thousand. Its administrative area is 150 square kilometers, and the planning area is 300 square kilometers. The industrial output value of it is 2 billion 360 million Yuan, and the region's total tourism revenue is 2 billion 52 million Yuan in 2015。

The traffic location advantage of Jinhua Mountain is very evident. It can rely on highways and railways to get a rapid access to the national highway and railway network, and it is very convenient to Yiwu Airport, Quzhou Airport and Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, which can realize effect of "the integration of the neighbouring cities" for the tourism in Yangtze River Delta. With the unique natural resources, Jinhua Mountain is almost integrated into the city, and it has evident effect of "getting close to the city". With the high altitude of 1314 meters, it owns rare resources all over the country. Jinhua Mountain has the characteristics of complex terrain, large elevation as well as significant vertical temperature changes, for example, the average summer temperature of the mountaintop is 4 to 8 Degrees lower than that of the mountain foot. In Dapantian Scenic Spot, there are more than 10 peaks, which are the rare mountain plateaus with the average elevation above 1000 meters. They are excellent cool world and summer resort. In Jinhua Mountain, there is a National Forest Park, whose forest coverage rate reaches more than 80%. Its natural landscape of 134 natural attractions in Jinhua Mountain is very beautiful. Jinhua Mountain has a total of six scenic spots, including a total of Shuanglongdong Scenic Spot, Huangdaxian Scenic Spot, Jianfeng Scenic Spot, Chisong Scenic Spot, Dapantian Scenic Spot and Jiayuanli Scenic Spot. Among them, the core scenic spots of Shuanglongdong Scenic Spot and Huangdaxian Scenic Spot are national Level 4A tourism area. Jinhua Mountain has rich cultural heritage, and it was known as the "the famous mountain in Jiangdong" at the heyday period of Taoist culture in Eastern Han Dynasty. It enjoys equal popularity as "Five Mountains", and especially when Huang Chuping was written into "Immortal Biography" by The Eastern Jin Dynasty Taoist theorist Ge Hong and was named as "Huang Daxian", Jinhua Mountain became the Taoist shrine in the southern part. Jinhua Mountain is also the birthplace and lecture shrine of the famous "Jinhua School" of idealist philosophy in Ming dynasty. In the history，there are the most monks, the Daxiong Hall has the nation's largest scale which was ordered to build by Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty for the wise to contemplate. It is a famous mountain of" Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism". Sixteen emperors from Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty once visited Jinhua Mountain. They gave plaque, royal orders to Taoist temple, eminent monks, senior Taoist priests and hermits or they sheltered. Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Song Qingling, Peng Dehuai, Taozhu, Li Xiannian, Peng Zhen, Wu Bangguo and other leaders of the Party and the country also paid a visit. Men of letters of all dynasties all came here for its fame. Li Bai and Wang Anshi, Meng Haoran, Su Dongpo, Li Qingzhao and other ancient celebrities had more than 2000 articles about Mount Jinhua. The great traveler Xu Xiake wrote more than 4000 words of travel about it. Modern writer Yu Dafu, Ye Shengtao, Guo Moruo and Ai Qing also wrote famous masterpieces for Shuanglong Cave. "Two Caves of Jinhua" by Mr. Ye Shengtao made the cave so well-known in the world.

"Guzi City is the root of Jinhua and Jinhua Mountain is the soul of Jinhua". The Administrative Committee of Tourism Economic Zone of Jinhua Mountain adheres to the five development ideas of innovation, coordination, green, development and sharing, makes the natural landscape beautiful, deepens historical culture, beautifies its appearance, tells a good story of Jinhua Mountain, focuses on the creation of three brands of "the famous mountain with three religions" and "Shuanglong Scenic Spot", "leisure and health", accelerates the construction of three cultural parks of Wu Culture Park, the Wise Cultural Park, Huang Daxian Cultural Park and makes efforts to enhance the market influence and brand awareness of "the famous mountain in Jiangdong".