(250921) -- JIAXING, Sept. 21, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 19, 2025 shows a bookstore in a barn-modified cultural industrial park in Shendang Town in Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province. Shendang Town has been developing a distinctive cultural and tourism route with its own features, making the town a highly sought-after tourist destination in the Yangtze River Delta region since 2024. It has integrated its most distinctive culture, intangible cultural heritages, landmarks, and surrounding cultural tourism projects with the characteristics of the town, offering visitors exceptional cultural and tourism experiences.
In the first half of 2025, Shendang Town received more than 1.15 million tourist trips, a year-on-year increase of 475 percent. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
