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About Honghu Lake Eco-Tourism Area
The area is built on the open water of Honghu, described locally as the hundred-li lake, and on the character of the surrounding watery lowland. It brings together natural scenery, ecological protection, aquatic resources and modern agriculture with eco-tourism, water recreation and revolutionary-tradition education, and is listed among the hundred national classic red tourism scenic areas and among China's first batch of agricultural tourism demonstration sites. Its character changes sharply through the year: fishing sails in spring, red lotus flowers over green leaves in summer, sweet lotus seeds and water chestnuts with fish and crabs in autumn, and reeds in seed with massed birds in winter. The lake-set staging of Honghu Chijiedui and the opera Kan Tianxia Laoku Renmin Dou Jiefang belong to the area's programme.
The name needs care. Honghu also has a separate and larger Honghu Wetland Ecological Tourism Area on the lake's east shore, covering more than 4,400 mu and rated 4A, with its own hotel, eco-park, tourism port, party history centre and greenway; that is a different place from this one. Qujiawan itself is associated with the revolutionaries He Long and Zhou Yiqun, and the Qujiawan Xiang-E-Xi revolutionary base site there is again a separate 3A area, a national key cultural relics protection unit listed in the third national batch on 13 January 1988, holding 39 revolutionary buildings and remains. The base site and the ecological tourism area both lie about 50 kilometres from the Honghu city centre.
What to look for
- The open water of Honghu, the lake the area is built around
- The summer lotus beds, and the winter reed stands where birds gather in numbers
- Lantian port at Qujiawan town, the landing that serves the area
- The Qujiawan Xiang-E-Xi revolutionary base site nearby, with its 39 nationally protected revolutionary buildings and remains
Location & getting there
Getting to Honghu Lake Eco-Tourism Area
Check the open visitor route and follow the site’s rules on distance, food and photography. Conservation areas may limit access beyond designated paths.
- Search for 洪湖生态旅游区 with 荆州市 and 洪湖市.
Find Honghu Lake Eco-Tourism Area
洪湖生态旅游区 · 洪湖市
No reliable map pin yet: search by the Chinese name.
Sources & visit information
The linked sources support the identity and background described in this introduction. Opening hours, admission, activity availability and exact arrival arrangements have not been comprehensively checked. Confirm current visitor information with the venue; the original catalogue locality and editorial review flag are retained.