Qixi town in Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, has received a total of 253,000 tourists this year, generating 44.6 million yuan ($611.7 million) in income.

Qixi town has rich natural resources and beautiful scenery. To stabilize its tourist sources, the town established a tourism alliance this year and signed strategic cooperation agreements with 10 travel agency alliances.

More than 800 tourists from Wenzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and other places arrived in Qixi town on Aug 23. This was the 297th tourist group that Qixi town has attracted this year.

Since June, the town has received around 750 tourists per day.

"The town arranges tourist groups based on the capacity of each village," said Cheng Lixian, the person in charge of Qixi town.

Eight of the nine villages in the town currently have tourist groups staying there.

Longmen village is one of the beneficiary villages. Under the overall arrangement of the town, it has to receive at least 50 tourists for meals and accommodation every day.

"The scenery here is good, the food is delicious, and the services are excellent. I come here every season of the year. I stay for three or five days each time and enjoy the beauty of each season," said a tourist surnamed Ji from Yiwu.