Do you want to see a boundless sea of canola flowers, and do you want to take a small train shuttling in the rice fields?... There is such an interesting leisure tourism base in the Cixi Modern Agriculture Development Zone. A few days ago, ZhengdaCixi Modern Ecological Agriculture Park was honored as a “Special Leisure Tourism Base in Ningbo”.

A special leisure base refers to a leisure tourism destination which has necessary facilities and services to meet the needs of certain special leisure tourism activities, and has a considerable market in the field. Since 2009, Ningbo has issued the development planning, evaluation standards and measures of leisure tourism bases, and has formed the construction and evaluation system of leisure tourism bases, business conference bases and special leisure tourism bases, aiming at integrating tourism resources and elements to create more new tourism formats and open living space for the mass public while taking leisure tourism bases as the platform.

ZhengdaCixi Modern Ecological Agriculture Park, located in the Modern Agriculture Park, boasts 3,000 mu of flowers, 5,000 mu of fruit and vegetable bases, and over 20,000 mu of standardized field planting area. You are to find 4 thematic resources of the tidal-flat area, paddy fields, grapes and flower seas. A complete tour route has been developed in the Park, enabling tourists to enjoy themselves in the farming culture.

At present, the Zhengda Group’s 26 companies have settled down in theCixi Park, covering agricultural planting, breeding, R&D and manufacturing of high-end mechanical and electrical equipment for agriculture and animal husbandry, food R&D, ecological agricultural tourism, e-commerce, industrial investment fund and so on. The integration of agriculture and tourism is an important part and the focus of future development. In July 2020, CixiZhengda Agricultural Silicon Valley signed the first batch of industrial projects, with 12 projects involving an investment of over 7.8 billion yuan, including tourism supporting projects such as paddy field hotel, town market, town canteen, and so on.The Zhengda Agricultural Park, initiated its construction in 2020, covers a total area of 1,600 mu, and phase I of the park covers 800 mu, and is equipped with World Rice Park, Sunflower Maze, Paddy Field Train and so on, providing support for sightseeing, leisure activities and holiday compound tourism.The honor of being a “Special Leisure Tourism Base in Ningbo” is not only the achievement made by the Zhengda Group in integration of agriculture and tourism, but also the implication of the rise of the leisure brand of the industrial park and the improvement of both popularity and influence.