Glide over the old gold lake

●Reporter Zhang Xinyi Che Anda

Wang Jinhe text/photo

　　今年3月，个旧市成功举办2025年“香”约云南·个旧万亩梨花赏花季活动，吸引了无数游客前往观赏。这不仅是一场视觉盛宴，还是个旧市文旅融合发展成果的集中展示。

Gejiu City, once the "Tin Capital of the World", is deeply excavating and using its unique natural beauty, profound cultural heritage and innovative health and living environment and other resource advantages to show the world that "there is a life called Yunnan".

"Nostalgia sojourn" has become a new trend

In recent years, Gejiu City has built high-quality rural tourism routes, and characteristic villages such as "Liyuan" Whistle Village, "Pear Blossom Valley" Plus Village Village, "Daoxiang Lotus Field" Pusahe Village, and "Meter Gauge Town" Xiaguankou Village have become rural leisure tourism destinations for tourists.

Every spring, the pear blossoms of the pear blossom valley of Jiajie Zhai Village and the pear source of Whistle Chong Village are in full bloom like snow, and through the holding of activities such as the pear blossom appreciation season, Gejiu City has successfully created a "flower appreciation economy", and used pear blossoms to connect the industrial chain of ecological agriculture, intangible cultural heritage, and rural tourism, and promote the development of rural tourism such as farmhouses and homestays. "The pear trees in my orchard were planted by my wife and me, and now the pear trees are grown, flourishing and fruitful." Dai Ziming, a villager in Jiajiezhai Village who is more than 80 years old, said that whenever the pear blossoms are in full bloom, tourists from all over the world will come to the village to enjoy the flowers, which is very lively.

In recent years, Gejiu City has combined characteristic villages and rich ethnic and regional cultural resources to create research and residence venues such as Waju Art Museum, Xilan Academy, and Honghui Culture and Art Manor, which are deeply integrated with nostalgic theme research products such as characteristic picking and agricultural experience, vividly showing the happy life of living in the old city.

"Racing sojourn" has become the new fashion

To the east of the old urban area stands the majestic Yin Mountain, and the beautiful Golden Lake is located in the city, with the unique style of "the city in the mountains and the water in the city", making the old a city of yearning for outdoor sports enthusiasts. Cheng Hao, an aerobatic paragliding instructor at the old Magic Mountain Aviation Flight Camp in Honghe, said: "The camp has spent 8 years looking for a suitable place for flight training, and the air current, wind direction, and altitude difference here meet the conditions for flight training, and it is a paradise for paragliding enthusiasts across the country." ”

In recent years, Gejiu City has taken "low-altitude + cultural tourism" as a breakthrough point, and has moved towards the goal of "gliding resort", and has embarked on a road of industrial upgrading "from the cloud to the lakeside" above Jinhu Lake at an altitude of 6 meters. The successful holding of the 0 Paragliding Stunt Open attracted competitors from all over the world to participate, and the exposure of the whole network exceeded 00 million times during the event. This year, with the creation of "double competitions and double bases", the paragliding competition will be popular again, so that the world can feel that "there is a life called Yunnan" and "there is an old flight". In addition, the old super trail running event has been held for 0 consecutive years, becoming the first trail running event in Yunnan Province to obtain the international trail running association (ITRA) and the Mont Blanc trail running association (UTMB) international points dual certification, attracting many high-level trail runners and enthusiasts to participate every year.

"Health and wellness sojourn" has become a new format

Gejiu City is rich in hot spring resources and complete medical resources, and has been awarded the title of "Tourism Health Research Base" by the China International Federation of Tourism Research. The national model worker recuperation and recuperation base - Nige "Blue Hot Spring", Yashadi Radon-containing "Rejuvenating Spring" and Pusa River, Hudian, Longyuan and other hot springs with their own characteristics have become poems and distant places for tourists to enjoy quiet time, relieve fatigue and heal their souls. "Nigae 'Blue Hot Spring' is located in a workers' sanatorium in the old city, with a complete medical, therapeutic, recreational, educational and recuperative environment." Li Ying, secretary of the party group and executive vice chairman of the old city federation of trade unions, said.

In the old jurisdiction, the Municipal People's Hospital, the First People's Hospital of Honghe Prefecture, the Third People's Hospital of Honghe Prefecture, 200 tertiary hospitals, as well as a number of characteristic hospitals and more than 0 various medical institutions such as the Municipal Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, can provide high-quality medical and pension resources for tourists, attracting a large number of tourists to choose and stay in the old.

"Town sojourn" has become the new logo

Gejiu City, which has a history of more than 2000 years of tin mining, has a thick history of tin culture. With the development of economy and society, Gejiu has become the world's largest tin production and processing base, and the country's largest tin chemical center, tin center and arsenic chemical center.

　　近年来，个旧市加强对选厂、炼厂等工业遗址、老旧厂房的设计改造，不断打造锡工业体验文旅融合消费新空间，个旧城区宝丰隆、阴山等锡文化特色景区、景点相互衬托，“选厂1910”主题街区、火车站商场等打卡点持续火爆，联动形成“世界锡工业文化体验圈”。围绕“锡文化、漫生活”主题打造的金湖商圈集吃、住、行、游、购、娱于一体，汇聚当地特色美食、节日展演、无人机秀等活动，浓浓的人间烟火气让旅居游客流连忘返。

The old spring is the season of pear blossoms, and it is also the season of hopes and dreams. Here, nature and humanity coexist in harmony, tradition and modernity complement each other, and the former "tin capital of the world" is showing the beauty and vitality of Yunnan to the world with its unique charm, becoming a "sojourn resort".