Zhengzhou committed to building the Yellow River as historical & cultural landmark

Yellow River culture is an important part of Chinese civilization as well as the root and soul of the Chinese nation. Zhengzhou, an ancient capital on the banks of the Yellow River, is making every effort to build itself into a landmark city of the Yellow River.

Located in the hinterland of the Yellow River Basin, Zhengzhou occupies a central position in the Yellow River civilization. The Zhengzhou section of the Yellow River has more than 330 cultural landscape tourism resources, more than 50 natural landscapes, and more than 300 representative intangible cultural heritage projects.

　　▲ Shuanghuaishu site  photo/Li Yan

The Shuanghuaishu site is the settlement with the nature of capital city that found along the Yellow River Basin so far in the early stage of Chinese civilization. Experts call it "the embryo of early Chinese civilization".

 

▲Shuanghuaishu Site/ aerial photography by Li Xinhua

The discovery of Wangchenggang site offers human the first glimpse into the early dawn of the Xia Dynasty for the first time.

▲Shuanghuaishu Site/ photo by Yang Fei

Peiligang Site is the first time for people to marvel at the wonderful atmosphere of Chinese civilization with the discovery at Peiligang Site, and peole marveled at the wonderful of the Chinese nation began to move towards civilization for the first time.

▲Shuanghuaishu Site/ photo by Li Xinhua 

The discovery of Lijiagou Site makes people feel for the first time the heroic epic of the Central Plains from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age.

Laonainai Temple in the southwestern suburbs of Zhengzhou,reaveals the firm steps that ancient Chinese humans evolved into modern humans.

With the goal of building itself into a major historic and cultural landmark city of the Yellow River, Zhengzhou has developed and utilized cultural and tourism resources in a scientific way, and further promoted the strategy of integrating culture, tourism, and innovation.