Tianhuangping Scenic Site in Anji

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As the most important regional tourist center of Huzhou city, Anji County has been enjoying the title of “Home of Bamboo”. Tianhuangping scenic site is the key tourist site within its boundaries. There are so many bamboo scenery and spots in the site. Some of them have become hot tourist spots and places for shooting films as well. The main tourist spots in this site are Tianhuangping Power Station, the Bamboo Museum, the Bamboo Seed-breeding Garden, the Great Sea of Bamboo, Canglong Baipu (Hidden Dragon and Hundred Waterfalls), and Jiulong Xia(Nine Dragons Valley).

Tianhuangping Power Station is the largest water pumping and energy storage power station in Asia. It is a famous landmark of industrial tourism in this country. The Bamboo Museum and the Bamboo Seed-breeding Garden closely combine the study of bamboo together with its production, ecological environment, and eco-tourism. Both of them are renowned in the Yangtze River Delta and titled respectively with the national AAAA-grade tourist spot.Canglong Baipu and Jiulong Xia are wonderful sights in theregion of Yangtze River.Canglong Baipu is situated only 100 meters away from Tianhuangping Power Station.In Chinese，the character of“bai”is for “hundred”，which has a figurative sense of“many”，and“pu”means “waterfall”.The piled waterfalls that come down the rocks form a grand view of multiwaterfall.That is why the picturesque sight is named”baipu”.

It is the greatest group of waterfalls in Zhejiang province.Jiulong Xia，which means Nine Dragons Valley，is also called“White Tea Valley” because of the white tea that grows there.White tea is one of four local specialities produced in Anji County.When tourists visit Jiulong Xia，they may be told some fairy tales and popular legends related to the valley.The Great Sea of Bamboo covers an area of 10，000 mu（a Chinese unit of area，1mu=0.0667 hectares）.It is the largest base for bamboo production.

Visitors can enjoy the unique bamboo sceneries and find various precious bamboos there.At the same time，they can learn bamboo culture and personally take part in those entertaining activities related to bamboo.

Tianhuangping Scenic Site，undoubtedly，will integrate industrial tourism with vacationing，sightseeing，sporting and cultural exchanging.An international tourist site is taking shape.