On August 2, the "2022 Inner Mongolia Ongniud Banner Cultural Tourism Promotion Event" was held in Beijing with the theme of "Hometown of the Dragon and the Phoenix - A Spiritual Journey". Mr. Gai Chang, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of Tongzhou District in Beijing Municipality, Mr. An Yuanliang, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Ongniud Banner and Deputy Secretary of the People’s Government of Ongniud Banner, Mr. Gao Yongwu, Deputy Secretary of the People’s Government of Ongniud Banner, Mr. Li Hui, Deputy Secretary of the People’s Government of Ongniud Banner, as well as representatives from travel agencies, Beijing’s automobile clubs, and media organizations, attended the event.
The promotion opens with a dance performance entitled "Love on the Ranch" by the Wulanmuqi Art Troupe of Ongniud Banner. Through three chapters - "Hometown of the Dragon and Phoenix", "The Great Beauty of Ongniud" and "Beijing-Mongolia Cooperation in Rural Revitalization" - the event introduced Ongniud Banner's long and glorious history, cultural heritage and beautiful natural scenery to online viewers and guests at the event through videos, speeches, dance performances, interactive raffles and other forms of activities.
The promotional event will focus on promoting the Yulong Sand Lake Scenic Area and the Mongolia Empire City Cultural Tourism Leisure Town. The Yulong Sand Lake Scenic Area is characterized by its unique sand lake landscape with lakes in the sand, islands among the lakes, grass on the islands and birds among the grass. By actively exploring the "sports + research" innovative integration model of culture, tourism and sports, the scenic area has become the most important brand in Ongniud Banner, known for its "desert scenery and extreme sports tour". Mongolia Empire City Scenic Area is a special tourist city with Mongolian Yuan culture as its core; it showcases the unique cultural elements and cultural customs, and allows visitors to experience the traditions of Mongolian Yuan culture through immersive leisure and entertainment activities as well as food. The manager of the scenic area gave an introduction on the recent activities and concession policies of the scenic area. During the event, the organizers also conducted a QR code raffle, distributing 400 tickets to the scenic area to the audience, which was the highlight of the event.
Meanwhile, in order to meet the individual needs of different tourist groups, the "Ongniud Banner Tourism Guide" was officially launched online in Beijing, which attracted the attention of the guests attending the event who work in the cultural and tourism industry. The venue also showcased Mongolian ethnic clothing, embroidery, and other intangible cultural heritage products of Ongniud Banner, as well as specialty foods such as Inner Mongolian air-dried beef and dairy products, buckwheat and other organic agricultural products.
Ongniud Banner is one of the birthplaces of Hongshan Culture, Liao Culture, and Mongolian Yuan Culture and the place where the Jasper Dragon, known as "China's First Dragon" and the Pottery Phoenix Cup, known as "China's First Phoenix", were unearthed. For this reason, Ongniud Banner is also known as "the Hometown of the Dragon and the Phoenix". The natural scenery of Ongniud Banner is beautiful, with grasslands, deserts, lakes, fantastic mountains, strange rocks, pine forests and whistling dunes; it is known as "The Pearl of the Vast Sea" and "The Water Town Beyond the Northern Frontier".
In recent years, Ongniud Banner has comprehensively implemented the all-round tourism development strategy of all regions, taking the tourism industry as an important channel to promote the high-quality economic and social development of the Banner, playing up the important advantages in sand, water, and grassland resources and establishing links between the scenic grassland of the Lantern River in the south, the cross-country deserts of the central land, the Hongshan Lake Scenic Area in the east, and other scenic areas, with the principle of regulating sand in the east, regulating land in the south, and regulating scenic areas in the center, making efforts to create an entirely new pattern of regional tourism and promote the high-quality development of the culture and tourism industry.
In 2021, Ongniud Banner was awarded the "Guinness World Record of the World's Largest Mature Yellowhorn Planting Base”, while the Mongolia Empire City Cultural Tourism Leisure Town became a new landmark of Mongolian culture and a popular resort for grassland tourism. The Yulong Sand Lake Scenic Area is making every effort to become a national 5A scenic spot. Ongniud Banner has also joined the rank of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's pan-regional tourism demonstration zones. Ongniud Banner is one of the birthplaces of Hongshan Culture, Liao Culture, and Mongolian Yuan Culture, and the place where the Jasper Dragon, known as "China's First Dragon", and the Pottery Phoenix Cup, known as "China's First Phoenix", were unearthed. For this reason, Ongniud Banner is also known as the "Hometown of the Dragon and the Phoenix". The natural scenery of Ongniud Banner is beautiful, with grasslands, deserts, lakes, fantastic mountains, strange rocks, pine forests and whistling dunes; it is known as "The Pearl of the Vast Sea" and "The Water Town Beyond the Northern Frontier".
In recent years, Ongniud Banner has comprehensively implemented the all-round tourism development strategy of all regions, taking the tourism industry as an important channel to promote the high-quality economic and social development of the Banner, playing up the important advantages of sand, water and grassland resources, and establishing links between the scenic grassland of the Lantern River in the south, the cross-country deserts of the Lantern River in the north, and the scenic grassland of the Lantern River in the south, Lantern River scenic grassland in the south, Hongshan Lake scenic area in the east and other scenic areas, with the principle of regulating sand in the east, regulating land in the south and regulating scenic areas in the center, strive to create a completely new pattern of regional tourism and promote the high-quality development of culture and tourism industry.
In 2021, Ongniud Banner was awarded the "Guinness World Record of the World's Largest Mature Yellowhorn Planting Base", while the Mongolia Empire City Cultural Tourism Leisure Town became a new landmark of Mongolian culture and a popular resort for grassland tourism. The Yulong Sand Lake Scenic Area is striving to become a national 5A scenic spot. Ongniud Banner has also joined the ranks of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's pan-regional tourism demonstration zones.
Entering into a new stage of development, Ongniud Banner will adhere to the new high-quality development path of prioritizing ecology and green development, deepening the development and positioning of Wudan Town’s cultural tourism, and targeting the positioning of the Chinese Dragon cultural brand and the golden desert extreme sports tour with the aim of building national pan-regional tourism demonstration zones, and continue to make great efforts in organizing tourism activities taking the cultural tourism industry as a strategic pillar industry, focus on organizing important festivals each year, such as the Wenguan Azalea Flower Cultural Tourism Festival and the Hongshan Lake Ecological Tourism Food Festival, actively embrace the larger pattern of national tourism development with broader visions and more proactive and open attitudes, comprehensively launch the tourism brands of "The Origin of Chinese Dragon - A Lineage" and "Hometown of the Jade Dragon - A Spiritual Journey", drive industrial revitalization through cultural revitalization, and lead the way in rural revitalization with cultural tourism