Yuxi Municipal People's Government
I have a date with a Museum
Today is International Museum Day, and the theme for 2023 is "Museums, Sustainability, and a Better Life." The Chengjiang Fossil World Heritage Museum is located in the Chengjiang Biota National Geological Park, with an investment of 630 million yuan, covering an area of nearly 200 acres and a building area of 42,000 square meters. The museum primarily focuses on the "Great Explosion of Life, Great Evolution of Life, and Biodiversity," telling the epic story of life on Earth.
On April 19th, the 2nd Cuoke Watermelon Festival was held in Ganzhuang Street, Yuanjiang County. Using watermelons as a medium and the festival as a platform to make friends, it showcased the development achievements of watermelon industry in Cuoke and shared the joy of watermelon harvest. Cuoke Village has been growing watermelons since 1992. Thanks to its climatic advantages of abundant sunshine and large temperature differences between day and night, the watermelons grown here are highly favored by consumers for their sweet taste, large size, and juicy flesh. In 2025, Cuoke Village expanded its watermelon planting area by approximately 100 mu, bringing the total area to over 300 mu. Households engaged in watermelon cultivation account for 75% of the village's permanent population. With continuous improvements in planting techniques, each mu of watermelon field yields about 2 tons of watermelons, generating an output value of 3.6 million yuan.
A few days ago, Yuxi City Tonghai County Dashu Community 5th "fish Festival · Long street banquet" was held alongside Qilu Lake for tourists to experience interesting farming. Dashu community has held "Fish Festival · Long Street Banquet" activities for five years, through the integration of agriculture and tourism, to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture to sightseeing agriculture and leisure agriculture, and to create a new model of experiential rural tourism. Next, Dashu community will continue to explore a new way of integrated development of agriculture and tourism.
The life of the ancient city is always slow, from the beginning of the ancient city of Tonghai, everything slowed down. Here, we can experience the accumulation of history and the culture left to us by the ancient city. The ancient houses preserved in the ancient city are a wonderful world. After their transformation and repair, they glow with new vitality and become a unique inn, bar and coffee house, which has become a leisure fashion for Tonghai people. Whenever night falls, the Tonghai people will enter these old houses with friends. Some drink happily, and some chat with friends.
