On December 21, Zhang Keqi, president of the Xiangyang City Association for the Promotion of the Elderly, went to Huanglong Town, Xiangzhou District to investigate the integration of red culture and tourism and the development of characteristic industries, and awarded the provincial "Old Area Spiritual Education Base" to the Xiangzhou Xiangwan Revolutionary Memorial Hall of the 26th Division of the Red Ninth Army.
Awarding ceremony. Photo courtesy of correspondent.
Zhang Keqi inspected the construction of Xiangwan Village's Martyrs' Garden (Martyrs' Cemetery), the construction of the Winter Peach Industrial Base and the development of the new villagers' coffee house, and fully affirmed the achievements of Xiangzhou District in the protection, inheritance and promotion, development and utilization of red cultural resources, and promotion of the integrated development of culture and tourism. He pointed out that it is necessary to continue to protect and make good use of the local red resources and the natural resource endowment of lucid waters and lush mountains, increase the improvement of the village environment, increase the income of the masses, polish the honorary title of "Spiritual Education Base in Old Areas" in Hubei Province, and help the high-quality development of red tourism in Xiangyang City.
Li Jianguo, member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and director of the District Party Committee Office, said that in recent years, the District Party Committee, the District Committee for the Promotion of the Elderly, and the District Association for the Promotion of the Elderly have attached great importance to the construction of the red cultural project in Xiangwan Village, Huanglong Town, and have held coordination meetings many times to actively solve the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the project construction. With the strong support and struggle of the Municipal Association for the Promotion of the Elderly, Xiangwan Village has carried out the overall improvement and transformation of the roads along the line and the appearance of the village by virtue of the advantages of red resources, and has completed the construction of the visitor center, the monument to the revolutionary martyrs of the 26th Division of the Red Ninth Army, the Martyrs' Garden, the Red Culture Lecture Hall, the Red Army Canteen, and the "Agricultural and Sideline Products Exhibition Center".