“The cool breeze of Yaolong Mountain is really refreshing, it’s really a ‘natural air conditioner’, much cooler than Chongqing.” On July 14, on a rural road more than 5 kilometers away in Yaolongshan Community, which is more than 1,200 meters above sea level, in Yaolongshan Town, Tongzi County, Chongqing summer tourists in groups of three or five take a leisurely walk after dinner. Xu Liyu and Xue Guangping, summer tourists from Nan’an District, Chongqing, said happily, “The 26-degree ‘natural air conditioner’ in Yaolongshan Town is a good place to escape the summer and enjoy the cool.”
Chongqing tourists take a walk after dinner. Photo by Wang Huaqin
The bustling Chongqing morning market for tourists to buy vegetables. Photo by Wang Huaqin
At present, it has entered the midsummer season. The temperature in the urban area of Chongqing is above 40 degrees during the day and above 35 degrees at night. Due to its special geographical advantages, Yaolongshan Town, Tongzi County, in midsummer, the temperature is around 26 degrees, and the forest coverage rate is over 75%.
Yaolongshan Tianyu Jedi “Chongqing Village”. Photo by Wang Huaqin
A corner of “Chongqing Village”. Photo by Wang Huaqin
It is understood that since 2008, Yaolongshan Town has led the industrial development with party building and led the masses to rely on the climate advantage of “natural air-conditioning”. In response to the needs of Chongqing guests to escape the summer heat and enjoy the cool, three Chongqing rural tourism companies have been introduced. The real estate company develops the “Chongqing Immigrant Village” tourism project for summer vacations. It receives more than 30,000 summer tourists in Chongqing each year, and simultaneously drives local villagers to jointly develop 145 rural tourism summer resorts. Only Tianyu Villa operated by Chen Jian, a member of Yaolongshan community , receives more than 100 summer guests in Chongqing every year and earns more than 100,000 yuan.
Yaolong Yunhai Villa. Photo by Wang Huaqin
A corner of the summer resort. Photo by Wang Huaqin
The arrival of tourists from Chongqing also helps the sales of local green ecological agricultural and sideline products. The villagers in the town earn more than 50 million yuan from the rural tourism industry. “Golden Mountains and Silver Mountains”. (Wang Huaqin, Li Jixing)