In 1986, Liuminying was formally acknowledged by UN Environment Planning Office as the “First Village of Ecological Agriculture in China” and was entitled as “top 500” of environmental protection. Located in the Changziying Town of Daxing District, Beijing, it 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 the 104 National Road in the south. It is a theme park of agricultural sight-seeing.
Liuminying Ecological Farm covers an area of 145 hectares, with 250 households and 861 farmers. It is the experimental unit for ecological agricultural construction and research in our country. Since the 1980s, through utilizing biological energy and solar energy, adjusting production structure, protecting ecological environment, developing green industry and organic food, the farm forms a production system focusing on marsh gas construction, and integrating planting, raising, processing, production and sales, so as to promote the development of ecological system with benign circulation.
There are high-tech organic agricultural model garden, ecological farm, countryside households, agricultural park, large-scale energy switching station, conference and recreation center 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, where tourists can have a field experience. In the area of raising poultry, the number of layer chicken has reached 200,000, and tourists can pick 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 custom, buying folk custom handicraft are all favorite activities of the tourists. Within the new energy switching area, there are large-scale marsh gas ferment station and solar energy heating project at internationally advanced level, where the development and utilization of new energy and the importance of saving energy to the existence of human beings are shown. In other parts of the farm, there are activities such as feeding animals, turning windlass, appreciating farm tools, grinding flour, riding horses, swimming, fishing, etc. In the conference and recreation center, there are 13 conference rooms, which 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. |