Meichi Village Selected as China's Beautiful Leisure Village

2019-12-04
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Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the list of beautiful leisure villages in 2019. A total of 260 villages across the country were selected, 9 of which were from Hunan. Meichi Village of Linxiang County, Yueyang City made the list.

Meichi Village is located in southeast of Longjiao Mountain, a scenic spot and the hometown of Yao people¡¯s ancestor. The village is adjacent to Chibi and Chongyang in Hubei Province. In recent years, it has made great efforts to develop itself into a national ecological civilization village and a provincial sanitation and environmental protection village. It was among the first batch of Hunan featured tourism villages, Yueyang¡¯s top 10 beautiful villages, and Yueyang¡¯s model village for new countryside construction. In 2013, Meichi Wengqin Opera was added to national intangible cultural heritage list.

Chinese source: Yueyang Daily

Photo source: Linxiang Newspaper