Dafeng woos visitors with flowers and events

By Wan Lixin | March 21, 2017, Tuesday |

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STARTING this month, visitors and tourists will immerse themselves in a sea of flowers in Dafeng, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, for a spectrum of tourist events.

When this tourist event kicks off to a grand opening on Saturday (March 25), 300 varieties of tulips, numbering 30 million in all, would bloom in succession in a roar of colors for the next three months.

As in the previous events, there would be also events featuring pear flowers and David’s deer. Dafeng is the adopted home of the David’s deer (known in Chinese as milu, or sibuxiang, “the four unlikes”).

District Party Chief Yuan Guoping, in explaining the event on Monday, said that this year there would be five tourist lines designed with a view of the predilection of different visitors.

The capacity of local authorities to constantly innovate shows how this former backwater land, much of it reclaimed from salt marsh, is positioning itself. In the early 20th century Dutch engineer Hendrik de Reijke was called in by entrepreneur Zhang Jian to help reduce soil salinity and alkalinity using technology that had proven effective in the Netherlands.

Thanks to tidal action and continued reclamation efforts, the amount of farmland in Dafeng is growing rather than diminishing, as is the case in so many other parts of China. Indeed, each year an impressive 50,000 mu (3,300 ha) of new farmland is added on average.

It is already one of the largest urban district in Jiangsu, with about 720,000 people spread over a total area of over 3,059 sq km.

It’s only four hours away from Shanghai by bus, and the city is eager to woo visitors from Shanghai.

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Dafeng woos visitors with flowers and events

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