Xiuwen creates health care tourism destination for elderly

Xiuwen county in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, is focusing on the diverse health care needs of the elderly, and has developed related tourism products such as hot springs.

Xiuwen has built 105 hot-spring-related hotels, farmhouses, and characteristic B&Bs, and receives about 30,000 elderly tourists a year.

The county has actively developed new forms of health care tourism, building itself into a healthy travel destination by integrating Yangming culture, red culture in Damu village, Bouyei culture in Dashi village and kiwi fruit-picking parks.

Since the beginning of this year, about 14,000 elderly people have visited here, creating an output value of 2.76 million yuan ($395,547.27).

Xiuwen has an average annual air quality rate of over 95 percent, a forest coverage rate of 55.74 percent, and an annual average temperature of over 14 degrees.

The county will focus on forest health care experience during spring, escape from the heat in summer, autumn foliage in autumn, and shelter from the cold in winter.

Currently, there are two national and provincial forest health care bases in the county, serving nearly 300,000 people, and annual forest-health-care-related income exceeds 20 million yuan.