◎Zhouwo Music Town

Located in the southwest of Wuqiang County,Zhouwo Village is the seat of Zhouwo Town People’s Government.There are orderly residential courtyards with typical residential characteristics of northern China,and an ancient village site of the Shang Dynasty at Zhouwo Village.Zhouwo Town has become the first characteristic brand of the musical instrument culture and leisure tourism in China by adhering to driving the new rural construction with the cultural industry,relying on the good industrial foundation and residential characteristics of Zhouwo Village,and striving to create an attractive and high-grade music town in recent years.Zhouwo Music Town was selected as one of “National Top 10 Charming New Rural Villages” and included into the first batch of “Beautiful Countryside” pilot project by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2013; rated as National Ecological Cultural Village,The Most Beautiful Village in China,and “Youth Music Experience Base” by the China Working Committee on Caring for the Next Generation in 2014; identified as “China Model Village for Rural Tourism” by the China National Tourism Administration and “the Third Batch of Famous Tourist Towns with National Characteristics” by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the China National Tourism Administration in 2015; selected into the first batch of National Characteristic Towns in 2016; and titled “Characteristic Town in Hebei Province” in 2017.Its important facilities,night scenes,streets are all unified in the symbols of musical instruments and music as the theme.Even the poles for power lines on both sides of the streets are of a clarinet shape and full of strong artistic feelings.Here creativity is everywhere,and one step makes a difference in scenery.It can be said that “Every door and every family has its own creativity,and every flower and every tree has its own poetry.” Zhouwo Music Town has become a beautiful landscape for the countryside in northern China.(https://www.daowen.com)