Simatai Village of Gubeikou Town in Miyun District

In the Gubeikou Town with a thousand-year history, at the foot of the world-famous Simatai Great Wall, there is a small village related to the Great Wall, which is Simatai Village, the most beautiful village in Beijing. Simatai Village had eight natural villages before 2010, that is, eight teams, distributed in different locations of Simatai Village.

In 2010, China Youth Travel Service (CYTS) developed Simatai Village and built a new scene of Gubei Water Town at the foot of the Simatai Great Wall. The original eight natural villages, assembled together, are the current location of the new Simatai Village, which is about 1.5 kilometers from the Gubei Water Town. It takes just a few minutes by car.

Xibailianyu Village of Fengjiayu Town in Miyun District

When you come to Xibailianyu Village in Fengjiayu Town, it is surrounded by mountains and picturesque scenery, and the village looks extraordinarily neat under the blue sky. In recent years, more and more tourists have visited the village, and  it has become Internet-famous. Xibailianyu Village is also known as the Lotus Village blooming at the foot of the Great Wall.

Nowadays, the rural tourism industry of Xibailianyu Village is still developing, integrating red tourism and Great Wall culture into it, and more and more young people who worked outside are being attracted back to the village. After exploration, Fengjiayu town identified the accommodation model “led by the party and helped by government and state-owned enterprises, with social capital participation and benefiting for villagers”, which provided valuable experience for rural industrial prosperity.