In 1986, Liuminying was formally acknowledged by the UN Environment Planning Office as the “First Village of Ecological Agriculture inChina” and was entitled in the “top500”of environmental protection. Located in the Changziying Township of Daxing District,Beijing, Liuminying Ecological Farm is 15 kilometers away from the downtown, three kilometers away from the entrance of
Jingjintang Expressway and Sixth Ring Road
in the north, and two kilometers away from the104 National Road
in the south. It is a theme park for agricultural sight-seeing.
Liuminying Ecological Farm covers an area of 145 hectares with 250 households and 861 farmers. It is the chief experimental unit for ecological agricultural construction and research forChina. Since the 1980s, through utilizing biological energy and solar energy, adjusting production structure, protecting ecological environment, developing green industry and organic food, the farm has formed a production system that focuses on marsh gas construction and integrates planting with raising, processing, production, and sales, so as to promote the development of ecological system with benign circulation.
In the farm, there are high-tech organic agricultural model gardens, ecological farms, countryside households, agricultural parks, large-scale energy switching stations, conference and recreation centers, and folk customs households in the farm. In the 600 mu of organic vegetable fields in the high-tech organic agriculture model area, there are all kinds of vegetables, fruits, minor cereals, and other organic agricultural by-products wherein tourists can have a field experience. In the area of raising poultry, the number of chickens has reached 200,000 and tourists can pick out eggs with small baskets. There are 26 folk custom households in the folk custom experience area. Eating with farmers, living in farmers’ households, doing farm work, experiencing folk customs, and buying folk custom handicrafts are all favorite activities of the tourists.
Within the new energy switching area, there are large-scale marsh gas fermentation stations and solar energy heating projects operating at an internationally advanced level where the development and utilization of new energy and the importance of saving energy to the existence of human beings is truly shown. In other parts of the farm, there are activities such as feeding animals, turning windlass, appreciating farm tools, grinding flour, riding horses, swimming, and fishing. In the conference and recreation center, there are 13 conference rooms that can hold 1000 people at meeting or at dinner. The “thousand-people dumpling dinner” on the first day of each Lunar New Year is a “luminous point” with its strong characteristics, simple and kind folkway, festive atmosphere and busy scenes.
Location:LiuminyingVillage,ChangziyingTownship, Daxing District,Beijing
Admission: 25 yuan
Bus Routes: Bus 926 zhi (branch) toLiuminyingSightseeingPark
Telephone: +86-10-80266005, 80266003
E-Mail: winkihsu@gmail.com
Website: http://www.liuminying.com.cn/
