Press Conference on Creating Natural Oxygen Zone of China was held in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on 18th July, 2019. During the press conference, the list of new Natural Oxygen Zone of China was released, in which Qianshan City was included. Henceforth, Qianshan boasts another national-level honor.

In recent years, Qianshan has acted on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization idea that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Taking the opportunity of creating Natural Oxygen Zone of China and taking advantage of its favorable natural conditions, Qianshan has taken the creation as an important approach to take forward ecological conservation, improve eco-environment and develop ecotourism, transforming green mountains and clear water into productive resources. Till now, the forest coverage rate of the whole city reaches 54.59% of which the core zone  is 98%. With negative oxygen ion being 20 times over that of international standard, it has the reputation of China's quality air. Honored as one of the fifty best forests of health perservationin China, Tianzhushan offers important international high-quality tourist routes in Anhui province, and it attracts thousands of tourists from Russia, Japan, South Korea, the UK, France and other countries.

Meanwhile, efforts have been made in combining the development of meteorological tourism resources with the rural revitalization project. Based on “Company + cooperative + base + farmer” model, Qianshan has taken advantage of its ecological and climatic resources to promote the development of organic and green industry. Standard production model bases of tea, sericulture, camellia tea tree, trichosanthes, covering an area of 250,000 mu (16,666 hectares), have been built. Over 60 flagship products and Geographical Indication Products have been created. The ecological agricultural output of the first half of this year is 796 million yuan, with an increase of 9.6% in per capita income of rural residents year on year, topping the list of the whole province.

Creating Natural Oxygen Zone of China is an important activity to evaluate the climate and eco-environmental quality as well as develop ecological and health tourism, which was initiated by China Meteorological ServiceAssociation (CMSA). The creation is carried out through application, examination, revalidation, comprehensive review and other procedures. The regions are selected according to their ecological environment such as climate, air quality, negative oxygen ion, ecotourism planning, as well as matching items. Examined by CMSA, the region will be conferred with the title of Natural Oxygen Zone of China and awarded a tablet and a certificate. At the same time, the News will be published.

Qianshan has also sent Tianzhushan Tourism Company, Anhui Wangongshan International Travel Agency, Chuanwen Trichosanthis Seed Company, Jiudian Agricultural Products Development Company Limited to attend the first China’s Tourism Festival of Natural Oxygen Zone of China & Agricultural products exhibition