Recently, Wenzhou Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism Bureau announced the list of provincial-level assured scenic spots in 2021. Among them, eight scenic spots, including Huangtang Tea Expo Park in Xinlian Ethnic Village of Pingyang County, won the title of provincial-level assured scenic spot in Wenzhou in 2021.
Pingyang Huangtang Tea Expo Park is located in Xinlian Ethnic Village, Shuitou Town, Pingyang County. As the birthplace of Pingyang Huangtang, Xinlian Village is rich in natural resources. In 2018, the Pingyang Huangtang Tea Expo Park in Xinlian Village passed the acceptance of the national AAA-level scenic spot. There are tourist centers, Pingyang Huangtang Intangible Cultural Heritage Base, tea technical training schools, folk culture squares, Pingyang Huangtang Tea Restaurant, cultural corridors and scenic spot-oriented signs, cycling roads, hiking trails, observation platforms, parking lots, tea houses and other attractions and facilities in the scenic spot.
At present, the tea plantation, tent hotel, ancient method workshop experience hall, Panshan Highway and other image landscapes in Xinlian Village have gradually entered people’s field of vision. Xinlian Village also plans to build She ancient street, grassland, windmill valley and other projects to lay a solid foundation for the integration of tea and tourism. The endless “alpine tea garden” is transforming into a desirable “tourist paradise”.
It is reported that in recent years, Xinlian Ethnic Village in Pingyang County has vigorously developed the Huangtang tea industry, signed joint venture agreements with more than 400 tea farmers, and the tea garden has reached more than 8,800 mu, with a comprehensive annual output value exceeding 100 million yuan, becoming the “China Huangtang First Village”, cultivating a new format of “tea+cultural tourism” and successfully being selected as “National AAA Scenic Spot” and “Wenzhou Civilized Village”.