Fuzhou unveils ‘China’s Hot Spring Capital’ marker

A ceremonial marker denoting “China’s Hot Spring Capital” was unveiled in front of the Fuzhou Hot Spring Museum on Nov 29. The unveiling ceremony was an important part of the third Fuzhou International Hot Spring Tourism Festival. Guan Fengjun, head of the Geological Environment Department at the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR); Zhang Yue, vice secretary-general of the China Tourism Association; and Huang Zhongyong, deputy mayor of Fuzhou, attended the ceremony.

A ceremonial marker denoting “China’s Hot Spring Capital” was unveiled in front of the Fuzhou Hot Spring Museum on Nov 29

The Hot Spring Museum is located in the northwest of Fuzhou Hot Spring Park, Gulou district. It was built with a total investment of 120 million yuan ($19.27 million). The museum will be equipped with a hot spring experience zone and will display and publicize Fuzhou hot spring culture. The Gulou district government will combine the museum with the 190,000-square-meter Hot Spring Park and the nearby Jinyuan Hotel to form an urban hot spring tourism complex.

Civil engineering plans for the museum were completed this October. Pan Wei, an official from the Fuzhou tourism bureau, said that since Fuzhou received the title of “China’s Hot Spring Capital,” the city has put more effort into exploiting hot spring resources and constructing tourism projects.