Huaihua Wildlife Park, located in Pailou Village, Zhongfang Town, Zhongfang County, Huaihua City, is a national 3A tourist attraction and popular science education base in Huaihua City. The scenic spot is about 20 kilometers away from Huaihua downtown, with a total area of 400,000 square meters and 324,000 square meters of green space in the park. With convenient and fast transportation and obvious location advantages, it is a must pass for Huaihua’s “Ancient City Commercial Road” boutique tourist route in the light of town integration of Huaihua’s Hecheng-Zhongfang-Hongjiang-Zhijiang, as well as the south cluster of Huaihua. Baotou-Maoming Expressway and Shanghai-Kunming Expressway are close at hand. National Highways 302 and 209 pass through the area. Zhijiang Airport, Huaihua High speed Train South Station, Huaihua Railway Station and Huaihua West Marshalling Station are only 20 minutes’ drive away. The scenic spot is a comprehensive tourist attraction with the theme of visiting animals and popular science education, which combines recreation, animal interaction and catering services. The tourist reception center, parking lot, hiking trails, signs, tourist toilets and other infrastructures in the park are complete, which can provide a safe, comfortable and reassuring environment for tourists.
Huaihua Wildlife and Botanical Garden is the site of the original 303 Factory, a key project of the third line construction in the 1960s. The scenic spot is positioned according to the idea of “three line ruins, animal kingdom and amusement world”, and it strives to build a famous scenic spot and boutique scenic spot in Western Hunan and Wuling Mountain. Here, the trees are verdant, the flowers are in blossom and the grass are luxuriant. All animal cages are arranged in order, hidden in red flowers and green leaves, with the characteristics of southern gardens. In the park, there are tiger hall, monkey hall, elephant hall, hippo pool, giraffe hall, zebra house, bear hall, tiger hall, lion hall and other animal visiting areas, as well as Mengchong Hall, National Geographic Image Hall, Qipa Hall, large parent-child playground, research hall and other experience areas. In the future, there will be Panda Hall, Swan Lake (Encounter Lake), Ice and Snow World, Karting Cart and other featured venues and tourism projects. The park develops in harmony with the surrounding ecological environment, thus forming a high-grade ecological park around the five provinces with Huaihua as pivotal position. As a base for popular science education and research and study with animal and plant tourism as the core content, the park has more than 60 kinds of rare wild animals, with a total number of more than 2,000 animals.
Huaihua Wildlife and Botanical Garden has 7,080 restaurants that can accommodate 300 people for indoor dining and Menghu restaurants that can accommodate 150 people for dining at the same time. It has a number of outdoor terraces that can be used to hold various large-scale outdoor activities. It also has a multimedia classroom that can accommodate 300 to 700 people at the same time, a 30 square meter LED screen, professional audio equipment, etc. It has a professional team that customizes various sizes of group building activities for enterprises.
It is promising to develop characteristic research courses, such as geological examination, animal rescue, plant adoption, specimen exploration and research, field survival, etc., and regularly invite teachers from colleges and universities, scientific and technological workers to the park to impart the professional knowledge of animals and plants in multiple directions.
(Translated by Tian Xia)