During the National Day holiday, the cultural tourism market at the Dongxing Gateway Scenic Area continued to heat up, ushering in a peak in visitor flow for the holiday period.
As a uniquely distinctive border port city, Dongxing combines beautiful border scenery, profound overseas Chinese hometown culture, and rich ASEAN charm, attracting visitors from all directions who come drawn by its reputation.
During the holiday, viewing historic sites, savoring flavors, and purchasing quality goods became the mainstream travel choices for visitors. Various new cultural tourism formats burst with vitality, and the city's accommodation, dining, and border commercial markets were full of popularity and warmth.
During the National Day period, the Gateway Scenic Area was bustling with visitors yet orderly. At the China-Vietnam People's Friendship Square, the century-old Great Qing Qinzhou Boundary Marker stands quietly, having weathered the storms of time, witnessing the changes of border development, and carrying profound historical heritage of the national gateway. It has become a landmark cultural landscape that visitors must check in at, with passing tourists stopping to take photos and carefully read the stories of the border town's years gone by.
The Wenchang Pagoda stands tall and majestic, serving as a landmark cultural icon of the scenic area. Many visitors climb the tower step by step, leaning on the railing to gaze at the scenery on both sides of the Beilun River, overlooking the blended landscapes of the China-Vietnam border, and immersing themselves in the unique border customs and gateway charm.
The cultural tourism formats in the scenic area continue to improve and upgrade. Special attractions such as the Overseas Chinese Letters Hall and the Gateway Micro Short Drama Incubation Base deeply explore overseas Chinese hometown history and border culture resources, enriching the cultural tourism connotation of the scenic area and attracting many visitors and short video creators to stop for inspiration and experience check-ins, injecting new vitality into border cultural tourism development.
After taking in the cultural and historic sites, the rich ASEAN everyday charm leaves visitors lingering. The specialty shops in the scenic area are dazzling, with Vietnamese drip coffee, Southeast Asian dried fruits, ASEAN handicrafts, and cross-border specialty snacks all available. Many visitors slow down to immerse themselves in a leisurely lifestyle, personally brewing a cup of rich and aromatic drip coffee, savoring the mellow Southeast Asian flavors, and selecting specialty souvenirs amid the lingering coffee aroma. Without needing to leave the country, one can unlock authentic ASEAN goods in a one-stop manner and experience the unique charm of cross-border commerce up close.
"I specifically took advantage of the National Day long holiday to visit Dongxing. The border scenery here is very unique, the Overseas Chinese Letters Hall and the ancient boundary marker have a strong sense of historical atmosphere, and the various ASEAN foods and specialties are especially abundant. Overall, dining, accommodation, and transportation are all very convenient, and you can even gaze at Vietnam's Mong Cai across the Beilun River. The border tourism experience is especially great," said Mr. Xie, a visitor from Nanning.
In recent years, Dongxing has leveraged its unique border and overseas Chinese hometown resource advantages to deeply integrate red study tours, overseas Chinese cultural experiences, border leisure, cultural and creative incubation, and cross-border shopping, creating diverse and immersive border cultural tourism experiences. This National Day, visitors from various places toured the gateway border town freely, understanding the border heritage through historic sites, feeling the vitality of the border town amid aromatic everyday life, and fully enjoying a rich, diverse, and uniquely distinctive National Day border journey.
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