CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Chongqing has impressed tourists with its efforts to offer a convenient and comfortable travel experience, such as suggesting residents choose off-peak travel, building a viewing platform at Liziba Station, and closing a bridge to vehicular traffic. On June 18, several popular attractions and merchants in Chongqing jointly released the first issue of Chongqing Hand-Drawn Cultural and Creative Map for Visitors, striving to develop Chongqing into the most tourist-friendly city in China.

The hand-drawn map, which aims to provide a vivid, fun, artistic, and functional travel guide for visitors to Chongqing, features Shu Shu and Xiang Xiang as the guides (the characters designed by Huangsi Mama and making their debut in Chongqing Reading’– the national reading festival), and original illustration designs that direct users to different sections like Gourmet Recommendations, Must-have Food, Must-visit Spots, Tourist-friendly Merchants, and Rights and Interests of Tourists.

In the Tourist-friendly Merchants section, popular attractions and high-quality merchants, including Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall, Chongqing Raffles, Chongqing International Circus City, Hongyadong Hot Pot, Chongqing 1949, Winwill Books, Gengu Mansion, Shibati, Datianwan Stadium, Chongqing Huguang Cultural Creation, and Yuansheng Club, offer discounts on attraction tickets, food and beverage, and souvenirs for citizens and tourists holding the map.

The Chongqing Hand-Drawn Cultural and Creative Map is priced at 25 yuan per copy. Citizens and tourists who purchase the map have a chance to win a golden koi map and enjoy a free order of up to one thousand yuan. There are five koi maps among the 5,000 maps launched in the first phase. From now on, the maps will be available in the Traffic Teahouse Cultural and Creative Shop, the Huguang Hall Cultural and Creative Shop, and the Longmenhao Shejin Bookstore, as well as the online store in the WeChat official account of Huangsi MaMA City V Group Purchase.

The map is produced by Huangsi Mama Studio, Chongqing Luhai International Communication Foundation, and Chongqing Qingchuan Zhiwu Cultural Creativity under the guidance of the Chongqing International Culture Association. The city's cultural creations with copyright value are an important carrier of urban humanistic spirit and emotions, said the producers. The map represents a cultural creation project that combines urban public welfare and business rights and interests, which provides travel guides for tourists and supports Chongqing's urban public welfare undertakings. For every map sold, one yuan will be donated to the Special Fund for International Cultural Exchange of Chongqing Luhai International Communication Foundation.

In the future, the producers will launch maps of different regions in Chongqing to help promote cultural tourism consumption in various districts and counties of Chongqing, offer various themed maps for visitors to explore Chongqing, and work with local people to create special maps to show the little-known aspects of Chongqing. (Translated by Yuki, Fathom Language Limited)