1) Project Name
An n Exhibition Hall of Historical Materials of the New Fourth Army in Yunling, Jing County
2) Location
Xuancheng city, Anhui province
3) Background & Advantages
Situated in the northwest of Jing County, Yunling is bound on the north by Wuhu, on the east by Xuancheng, on the south by Huangshan and on the west by Mount Jiuhua. It is conveniently located in the central position in Anhui’s Tourism Economic Circle of 「Two Mountains and One Lake」, so its advantageous position will attract more tourists.
As a listed building under the state protection, Memorial Hall of the Former Yunling New Fourth Army Headquarters Site is a national demonstration base of patriotic education, a key national classic attraction of the Red tourism and a national 4-A rated tourist scenic area. The Party and state leaders including Jiang Ze-min, Qiao Shi, Li Rui-huan, Li Chang-chun, Zeng Qing-hong etc. have come here on their inspection trip. Every year thousands of tourists from home and abroad also visited here. The exhibition hall has been supported by CPC Publicity Department, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the National Tourism Administration, and on the priority list of the State Red Tourism supported by the state debt, and a 「186」 key project of Anhui province.
After the completion of the project, the exhibition hall will considerably enrich education in patriotism and revolutionary tradition, and further upgrade Memorial Hall of the Former Yunling New Fourth Army Headquarters Site so as to attract more tourists. In the meantime, the project will also promote the development of the local tourism products and tourist economy, favorable to nurture and develop a new growth point in tourism economy.
4) Scale & Scope
With the total construction area of 8300 square meters, a new modern exhibition hall of historical materials of the New Eighth Army will be built in the scenic area of the Memorial Hall of the Former Yunling New Fourth Army Headquarters Site, involving one introductory hall, nine exhibition halls, one 180-degree-view exhibition hall, one storeroom for cultural relics and a film projection room and some subsidiary buildings. With the construction area of 6000 square meters, the project will reproduce the most magnificent ten-year period of the New Eighth Army from its formation in 1937 to the designation cancellation in 1947 comprehensively, dimensionally and truthfully.
5) Investment Estimate
The total investment for this project is $6.4 million dollars (about 47 million yuan).
6) ROI Analysis
Calculated from the mutual relations between tourist output per capita and employment, the project can offer 600-900 job vacancies. In the meanwhile, it will also play an important role in adjusting industrial structure in the surrounding areas, increasing farmers』 income and accelerating the town construction locally. The project will receive 400,000 visitors a year, and the income from tickets alone will amount to 10 million.
7) Project Progress
The feasibility plan of the project has been completed.
8) Cooperation Intention
Debit and credit: the cooperative partner will make initial investments of 11 million yuan, which will be paid in three years with one third payment due each year; in the meanwhile, the partner will also be entitled to the annual dividend on a basis of initial investment amount.
Joint venture: the cooperative partner will make investments of no more than 49 percent.
9) Initial Partner
Memorial Hall of the Former Yunling New Fourth Army Headquarters Site is the only building under the state protection among the country’s monumental places of the New Fourth Army, is one of the well-preserved revolutionary sites in China, and one of the important historical places in Chinese modern history.
10) Contact Details
Contact Person: Huang Chungou, Zhang Bihu
Contact Agency: Memorial Hall of the Former Yunling New Fourth Army Headquarters Site, Jing County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province
Telephone: 86-563-5900706
Mobile: 13856365111
Fax: 86-563-5900315
Email: ahjxfpb@163.com