Xiamen is a coastal city in China. It is one of the first four special economic zones in China to implement the policy of opening up to the outside world. It is also a famous tourist destination. The following is a classic guide to Xiamen I prepared for reference only.
Xiamen Classic Guide Words 1 Xiamen is a graceful sea garden.
The city is on the sea, and the sea is in the city, which constitutes the overall style of Xiamen.
Islands, reefs, rocks, temples, flowers, and trees reflect each other, and the overseas Chinese customs, Fujian and Taiwan customs, seaside food, and exotic architecture are integrated into one. The spring-like climate all year round adds to the charm of the sea.
The geographical advantages of Taiwan and Southeast Asia and the three-dimensional complementary transportation facilities of sea, land and air have also injected vitality into the sustained and rapid development of Xiamen's tourism industry.
After the reform and opening up, Xiamen’s tourism industry has shown a momentum of vigorous development.
From 1991 to 1998, Xiamen ranked among the top 10 tourist cities in the country for eight consecutive years in terms of the number of inbound tourists, number of tourist days and (foreign exchange) income. Domestic tourism has also made great progress.
Xiamen has entered the ranks of major tourist cities in the country with a vigorous attitude, and tourism has grown into a key industry and a new economic growth point in Xiamen City.
Centering on the construction of the overall tourism image of Sea Garden, the quality of Xiamen's tourism industry has been significantly improved, and the domestic and foreign tourism markets have been expanded.
In terms of tourism legislation, Xiamen City has promulgated the "Xiamen City Tourism Management Regulations", "Xiamen City Interim Regulations on the Protection and Development Management of Tourism Resources", "Xiamen City Tourism Designated Unit Management Measures", and "Xiamen City Interim Regulations on the Management of One-Day Tours"
Such laws, regulations, and normative documents have initially formed Xiamen’s local tourism legal system, creating good conditions for the implementation of the policy of governing tourism according to law.
In terms of tourism resource development, the city has formed more than a dozen tourist attractions (spots) such as Gulangyu Island, Wanshi Mountain, Nanputuo, and Jimei. Gulangyu Island-Wanshi Mountain has been designated as a national key scenic spot by the State Council.
Especially since 1995, Xiamen City has increased its efforts to attract investment, and has successively built Xiamen Film and Television Entertainment City, Xiamen Taiwan Folk Village (Jingzhou Paradise), Gulangyu Underwater World, Hulishan Fort Rongguang Treasure Museum, Jimei Aerospace Science and Technology City, Oriental
New tourism projects such as two high-standard golf international country clubs and Veuve Clicquot are now open for business.
In terms of tourist hotels and travel agencies, Xiamen currently has 79 foreign-related tourist hotels, including 45 star-rated hotels with about 10,200 guest rooms; about 340 small and medium-sized social hotels with about 22,000 beds; and 48 international travel agencies and domestic travel agencies.
, including 12 international travel agencies and more than 200 various entertainment business units.
In 1998, the city received 483,500 overseas tourists, earning US$239 million in foreign exchange; it received 5,855,200 domestic tourists, generating 5.576 billion yuan in revenue; the added value of the tourism industry accounted for 6% of the city's GDP.
In order to meet new challenges with a more vigorous attitude at the turn of the century, Xiamen has determined the cross-century development goal of the tourism industry - by 2010, Xiamen will be built into an important tourist port on the southeast coast of my country and an international seaside with developed tourism and vacations. Tourism City.
Xiamen Classic Guide Words 2 Xiamen, a long time ago was called "Lujiang", "Lumen", "Ludao", "Luyu".
In the Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, it was called "Jiaheyu" and "Jiaheli"; in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "Jiahe Qianhusuo"; in the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Zhongzuo Suo"; when Zheng Chenggong ruled in 1650, it was called "Siming Prefecture"; after the Republic of China
They are called "Siming County" and "Siming City".
When was it called Xiamen? It is said that it was used together with the original name of Zhongzuo Suo in the early Ming Dynasty after Zhou Dexing, the Marquis of Jiangxia, came to build Xiamen City.
It is named after "Heron" because it is said that a large group of egrets lived on the island at that time.
The name "Jiahe" is based on the records in "Lujiang Chronicles" that at that time, a kind of improved rice with "one stem and several ears" was produced on the island.
It was named after the Soujiang because it was a name for the military institution set up by the government on the island at that time, and center left was the direction of the Souqiu.
The name "Siming" came from Zheng Chenggong and people at that time who missed the Ming Dynasty.
Why is it called "Xiamen"? Although there is no explanation in the historical data, there is a saying among the people: because Xiamen is located in the "Haimen" downstream of the Jiulong River, which is the "Lower Haimen" basin.
In this way, some people read the abbreviation of "Haimen" as "Xiamen" in the southern Fujian dialect.
As for the official naming, it was after the Qing government lifted the maritime ban in 1683.