Chapter 1 The basic conditions for strong province of cultural tourism industry in Henan 

1. Basic Resources of Henan

1.1 Favorable historical and cultural foundation

1.2 Outstanding cultural tourism resources

1.2.1 Characteristic of cultural tourism resources

1.2.2 Characteristic of cultural tourism products

2. Basic conditions of Henans Cultural tourism industry

development

2.1 Continuous solid economic base

2.2 Gradual perfection of tourism infrastructure

2.3 Cultural tourism city construction beginning to take shape

2.4 Productive institutional innovation of cultural tourism

industry

2.5 Constantly improved tourism industry system

3. Development opportunity of Henans Cultural tourism

industry

3.1 Favorable development opportunity

3.2 Enormous tourism market potential

3.3 The governments vigorous configuration 

3.4 Constantly optimized social environment

3.5 Constant training for talents of Cultural tourism industry

Chapter 2 Theoretical basis of the strong province cultural tourism industry development strategy in Henan

1. Rationale of Henan province development strategy in cultural

tourism industry

1.1 Related theories of leaping development

1.1.1 Leaping development theory

1.1.2 Central Henan rise theory

1.2 Culture soft power theory

1.3 Theoretical basis of industrial clusters 

1.3.1 Studies of neoclassic economics on industrial clusters

1.3.2 Studies of location theory on industrial clusters

1.3.3 Michael Porters studies on industrial clusters

1.3.4 Studies of network theory on industrial clusters

1.3.5 Studies of knowledge creation theory on industrial

clusters

2. Tourism industrial clusters competitiveness theory 

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Chapter 1 The basic conditions for strong

province of cultural tourism

industry in Henan 

Henan province is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in eastern China Located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and as one of the main birthplaces of the Chinese nation, Henan has been the geographical center of the politics, economy and culture for 3,000 years More than 20 dynasties established their capitals or moved their capitals to Henan Four of the eight ancient capitals in China are in Henan province: Zhengzhou as the ancient capital of Shang dynasty with the earliest capital history; Luoyang as the ancient capital of nine dynasties with the longest capital history; Anyang as the ancient capital of Shang dynasty and Kaifeng as the ancient capital of seven dynasties The long history of Henan province leaves a lot of historical and cultural heritages of high value It has the most underground cultural relics and museum collections, and its relics on the ground rank the second in the country There are a great many largescale cultural tourism resources in Henan, including splendid historical and cultural resources, modern cultural resources, distinctive revolutionary cultural resources and folk cultural resources Henan province has complete types of tourism resources, with natural and human landscapes enhancing each others beauty Considering from the quantity, quality and value of the tourism resources, Henan is a big tourism city in the country Splendid historical culture and beautiful natural scenery together build a unique cultural tourism garden of the Central Plains

Henan focuses on making the best of its cultural tourism resources to build a powerful cultural tourism province through innovation, coordination and industry convergence The Overall Tourism Development Plan, made on 2005 Provincial Tourism Industry Development Conference, has set the economic goal of Henan for the next 20year development of tourism Besides, this longterm goal is to build a modern province with powerful tourism economy, thus turning Henan into one of the direct tourist destinations with national and world fame In November 2008, Secretary Xu Guangchun visited Japan and developed an immense interest in the tremendous achievements of Japanese tourism industry So he put forward a strategic vision on promoting tourism industry

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