In order to fully display the colorful ethnic customs and natural scenery of Guizhou and let more people know about the splendid history of Guizhou, the General Office of Guizhou Provincial Government and Colorful Guizhou Network Co., Ltd. jointly launched a special manuscript collection activity of "Illustrating Guizhou".

This issue takes you into the World Geopark-Zhijin Cave.

Zhijin Cave is located at the intersection of Liuchong River and Sancha River, two sources of Wujiang River in the west of Guizhou Plateau. It is a national scenic spot, a national natural heritage site and a national geological park integrating science popularization, exploration, research, sightseeing and vacation, and it is also the only world geological park in Guizhou Province at present.

Zhijin Cave is a typical karst landform, and its carbonate composition is as high as 90%, covering most types of karst geological relics. It is a natural karst museum with unique geological relics and high aesthetic value.

Zhijin Cave is a multi-level, multi-system, multi-category and multi-form complete karst system with unique cave characteristics of "big", "strange" and "complete". It is a cave with the highest density of caves, the highest density of stalactites, the richest types and the rarest forms in the world, and it is a veritable "cave paradise".

Zhijin Cave has a good natural ecological environment, profound historical and cultural accumulation and rich tourism resources. It has been ranked first in China's most beautiful tourist cave, UNESCO World Geopark, national 4A-level tourist scenic spot, National Geopark, China's national natural heritage and land and resources popular science base.

2015 On September 6th, at the 4th Asia-Pacific World Geopark Conference held in Yin Shan Coast Geopark, Zhijin Cave was officially approved as a World Geopark by UNESCO.

Tourists take pictures in the cave.

Stalactites of different shapes

"Silver Rain Tree"

Stalagmites, stone pillars, etc. In the cave

"overlord helmet"

Ganoderma lucidum mountain and spinulosa spinulosa

Organizer: General Office of Guizhou Provincial People's Government

Organizer: Colorful Guizhou Network Co., Ltd.

Form and content of soliciting manuscripts: manuscripts should be in the form of "pictures+words". Natural scenery with Guizhou characteristics (including scenic spots with star rating or above), Party history culture (red cultural resorts and historical figures), ethnic customs (including unique costumes and customs of ethnic minorities), and new achievements and changes in urban and rural construction (urban landmark attractions, urban construction, rural revitalization, transportation, water conservancy, electric power, science and technology, communications and other infrastructure construction). ), cultural tourism (including the development of Guizhou), cultural relics protection, intangible cultural heritage, introduction of famous historical figures, etc. ), ecological civilization construction (soil and water conservation, afforestation, environmental pollution control and other aspects of outstanding achievements. ), industrial development (new changes and achievements in the development of the top ten industries, etc. ), food culture (Guizhou's unique food culture, local snacks, etc. ), people's livelihood security (new achievements have been made in the construction of education and civil affairs. ) and other types of "Guizhou Construction and Development"

Call for papers: all departments, photographers and people from all walks of life in the province.

Submission method: This activity only accepts email submission. Please send the submission to the email address gzszftsgz@ 163.com (the text and pictures must be packaged separately in the same folder and sent in packages. Please indicate the author's contact number in the document).

Author: Shi Luoyuan

First instance: a grass

Second instance: Bailey

Third trial: Wang