The Newly Developed Tourism

In Hezhe area, the hills are green and the waters are clear with crisscrossing rivers. In summer the scenery is just like that of the watery region of the south of Changjiang River, green plants overlapping and crossing, fishing melodies flying in the air. Therefore, people will indulge themselves in pleasure and seldom think of going home. While in winter, the area is covered by ice and snow, so that all is packed white, with sleds running fast. And the tourists will feel relaxed and happy. At present, there are the Hezhe-styled garden and tourist villages in Jiejinkou Township of Tongjiang, and Sipai Township of Raohe County. There, you can appreciate the folk songs and dances, taste the delicious food from fishing families, feel the ethnic way of life, enjoy the natural landscape and experience the pastoral life.

There is two million mu of grassland, 1.59 million mu of woodland (most are natural secondary forests), 1.33 million mu of water area and 73 species of fishes in the city of Tongjiang itself.

The city of Tongjiang, as a treaty port, enjoys a history of nearly a century.  In 1958, it was rectified by the state council to build up Tongjiang Port. In 1986, Tongjiang Port was resumed by the country to be the first class port, and the boundary trade opened again. In 1994, it was authorized by the Foreign Ministry to be an international port. It is available for tourists to travel from Tongjiang to Russian cities like Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc. Tourists can also reach countries like Japan, DPRK, ROK, and those in the Pacific coastal regions, if they follow down the Heilongjiang River by way of the Russian cities--- , Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk, Nikolajevsk-na-Amure---into Tartar Channel.

In the city of Tongjiang you will enjoy the ecological tourism, go picnicking, go swimming in the open air, go angling and you can go through the formalities for travel in leisure time and the research into economics and trade to Russia.

The Hezhes, who once nearly died out, will together with the great socialist motherland strive for a thriving and powerful future.  

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