No need to travel far during the National Day holiday to discover something fresh! Six premium science exploration routes in Zengcheng await your discovery. The entire district's science points have been linked together like beads on a string, deeply integrating 20 high-quality science resources including science venues, tech innovation enterprises, natural ecosystems, and study bases. This initiative pushes science out of exhibition halls and into city streets, blending with green mountains and clear waters. This holiday, enjoy a rendezvous of science and nature in Zengcheng!

Green Pastoral · Ecological Farming Science Tour Route

Guangdong Xiangfeng Specialty Fruit Industrial Park Address: Pingling, Taiping Village, Lihu Street, Zengcheng District. As a Guangdong Province study practice education base and a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area vegetable basket base, the park spans ten thousand mu and centers on smart agriculture, building a digital orchard that grows premium fruits such as Shine Muscat grapes, netted melons, and blueberries. The park has launched a donate two idle books activity where participants can exchange for handmade lemon green tea, cotton candy workshops, and a fish-catching contest ticket, enjoying both fruit fragrance and book aroma together.

Lychee Culture Expo Park Address: Beside Zhuxian Road, Jigang Village, Xiancun Town, Zengcheng District. The park features Guangzhou's first lychee culture museum, relying on the historical and cultural resources of Zengcheng and Xiancun. The museum integrates lychee culture, production technology, viewing experiences, science training, and product display and sales, weaving lychee culture into natural and humanistic ecological life. The museum interprets the secrets of lychees from four aspects: nature, history, culture, and technology, exploring the mysteries of lychee cultivation and presenting the development of lychee culture over centuries through poetry, calligraphy, folk customs, and historical anecdotes.

Guangzhou Suixin Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. Xianquanhu Dairy Cow Town Address: Fengxing Milk Xianquanhu Pasture, Zhaobu Village, Yuehu, Xiancun Town, Zengcheng District. Xianquanhu Dairy Cow Town is located in the northern part of Xiancun Town, northwest of Yuehu Village. Suixin Animal Husbandry within the town is the raw milk supply pasture for Fengxing Milk's premium product Xianquanhu. The town is a milk source supply base for Guangzhou student milk, incorporating advanced international dairy farming concepts and techniques. It is the first livestock farm in the province to be equipped with an online pollution source monitoring system and is an excellent destination for learning science and leisure experiences.

Green and Beautiful Zengjiang · Landscape and Culture Science Tour Route

Xingluoji Great Forest Scenic Area Address: Erlongshan, Dengshan Village, Xiaolou Town, Zengcheng District. Guangzhou Erlongshan · Xingluoji Great Forest Scenic Area (formerly Guangzhou Erlongshan Garden) has a total planned area of 1,310 mu, with a forest coverage rate of 95% and negative oxygen ion concentration reaching 102,500 per cubic centimeter, offering fresh air and a beautiful environment. The park features rich attractions and entertainment facilities such as Xingluoji Dinosaur Valley, Botanical Science Garden, Erlongshan Glass Bridge, Longxi Valley, and Adventure Forest Park. Additionally, the scenic area is fully equipped with activity lawns, stages, meeting rooms, restaurants, outdoor barbecue areas, and study classrooms, suitable for hosting brand promotions, study trips, and corporate team-building activities. From now until October 7, the scenic area's new Wild Man Valley will operate for an extended 13 days, featuring stunt performances, clown magic, dance flash mobs, wild man NPC interactions, and silver ticket games for prizes.

Zhengguo Station Address: No. 4 Zhengqiao Road, Zhengguo Town, Zengcheng District. Zhengguo Station is located in Fanfeng Village, Zhengguo Town, Zengcheng District, covering about 27 mu. It is far more than just a station; it is a Lingnan cultural living room where you can eat, stay, play, shop, and savor. The station enjoys a prime location, connecting east to the serene Zhengguo Temple, west to the bustling Zhengguo Old Street, north to the rippling north and south banks of the Zengjiang River, and linking to terraced flower fields and other secret spots, creating a 30-minute rural tourism circle for easily unlocking Zengcheng's beauty. Here you can relax and enjoy views, browse specialty shops to bring Zengcheng flavors home, explore intangible cultural heritage spaces to touch Cantonese art, and stroll along waterside boardwalks and leisure paths to enjoy the river breeze, savoring quiet moments where nature and culture blend.

Zhengguo Old Street Address: Zhengguo Old Street Scenic Area, Zengcheng District. Zhengguo Old Street is nestled between Nankun Mountain and Luofu Mountain, winding along the Zengjiang River banks. Together with Zhengguo Station, the regional gateway, it forms the dual-core driving engine of the Zhengguo area within the Nankun Mountain-Luofu Mountain High-Quality Development Leading Zone. As the core cultural landmark of Zhengguo Town with over 1,800 years of history, Zhengguo Old Street boasts profound cultural heritage and simple folk customs, covering 15.3 square kilometers. Traditional buildings from the late Qing Dynasty, early Republic of China, and early liberation period are scattered throughout, with ancient charm complementing new scenery. Surrounding shops line up row upon row, offering local delicacies like Zhengguo wonton and Lanxi rice noodles. From now until October 5, Zhengguo Old Street features live performances by trendy bands, the Leaping Dragon Gate dance show, clown interactive parades, and panda mascot comedy tours, letting visitors eat and play while exploring the millennium-old street.

Rice Fragrance Simiao · Local Craftsmanship Science Tour Route

Colorful Australia Tour World Address: North of Jinxing Road, Lianxing Village, Zhucun Street, Zengcheng District. Colorful Australia Tour World is a parent-child ecological cultural tourism area integrating amusement, education, and wellness. Based on natural landscapes and rural scenery, it introduces white, brown, and gray kangaroos, using kangaroo as its IP and blending parent-child activities, sports, and education. It features attractions such as colorful flower fields, equestrian experience grounds, rainbow slides, central water stage, wedding chapel, wedding plaza, and kangaroo kitchen. The scenic area is a Guangzhou primary and secondary school study practice education base, offering specialized study courses around natural ecology, labor practice, handmade aesthetics, and outdoor sports. Derived study sub-projects include forest ecology, animal science, crop planting, crop harvesting, outdoor cooking, tasting Zhucun chicken rice, exploring Hakka intangible heritage such as ai zi, plant collage, plant rubbing, intangible heritage handmade food such as fried rice cakes, as well as outdoor hiking, outdoor safety, and competitive sports. From now until October 6, the scenic area offers Chinese-style folk custom interactions, themed parades, and mountain outdoor cooking activities. Visitors can also pet white kangaroos up close and ride the popular jungle train.

Fuxi Farm Address: Fuxi Farm, Zhucun Street, Zengcheng District. Fuxi Farm is located within the Zengcheng Simiao Rice National Modern Agriculture Industrial Park in Zhucun Street, under the Zengcheng Agricultural Investment Group's key development of the Zengcheng Simiao rice full-industry-chain labor education practice base. Featuring technology plus farming plus education, it offers courses such as unmanned agricultural machinery operation, smart farm management, and spring plowing and autumn harvest labor practices, allowing youth to touch the pulse of modern agriculture amid ten thousand mu of rice fields.

Zengcheng Nengji Family Farm Address: Longxin Village, Zhucun Street, Zengcheng District. Zengcheng Nengji Family Farm was founded by Mo Lixian, a returning entrepreneurial youth from Zhucun Street. It has 200 mu of premium Simiao rice paddies and 100 mu of vegetable and fruit orchards. Centering on promoting farming culture and applying agricultural technology, it has been rated as a provincial-level demonstration family farm and selected as a Zengcheng District primary and secondary school labor education practice base. The farm has developed a specialty study course called The Fantastic Journey of a Grain of Rice around the rice growth cycle. Through the rice field plus model, it introduces experiential projects such as rice field trains, turning fields into classrooms and villagers into instructors.

Guangzhou Jinhe Soilless Cultivation Vegetable Science Base Address: Lubian Village, Ningxi Street, Zengcheng District. Guangzhou Jinhe Soilless Cultivation Vegetable Science Base covers over 300 mu with a clean natural environment and clean water sources. It is open year-round and features functional areas including fruit and vegetable cognition zone, picking experience zone, educational expansion zone, and modern agricultural technology application zone. It also has dedicated science classrooms and science corridors, making it a high-tech science base integrating planting technology display, sightseeing tourism, educational expansion, and production planting.

Food and Medicine Homology · Intangible Heritage Science Tour Route

Guangzhou Aohai Food Co., Ltd. Address: No. 33 Huancun East Road, Mache Village, Shitan Town, Zengcheng District. Founded in 1988, Guangzhou Aohai Food Co., Ltd. is a seasoning production, processing, and sales enterprise. It currently owns two major brands, Aohai and Zengjiang Bridge, with main products including abalone sauce, abalone juice, concentrated chicken juice, Yipin Soup King, conpoy juice, ham juice, Yipin fresh soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Additionally, the soy sauce brewing technique (Zengcheng Shitan fermented soy sauce) was selected for the eighth batch of Guangzhou municipal intangible cultural heritage representative project recommendation list, and Guangzhou Aohai Food Co., Ltd. was recognized as a Zengcheng District intangible cultural heritage inheritance base. To let more people see and touch this century-old craftsmanship, Aohai created Zengcheng's first intangible heritage concept hall, the Aohai Old Earth Intangible Heritage Workshop. It is open to the public for free and integrates display, experience, and study. Walking into the intangible heritage exhibition hall, you can not only learn about Aohai's century-old soy sauce heritage story but also personally experience the intangible heritage technique of handmade soy sauce brewing.

Eastroc Beverage South China Production Base Address: No. 746 Sanshui Lisansan Road, Shitan Town, Zengcheng District. Eastroc Beverage (Group) Co., Ltd. (SHA: 605499) was founded in 1994 and is a group company integrating technology research and development, production, and sales. It listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2021. As one of the pioneers of energy drinks, Eastroc Beverage has ranked first in China's energy drink sales for four consecutive years and was selected for the Global Soft Drink Brand Value Top 25 and Kantar BrandZ China Top 100 Brands. In 2023, Eastroc Beverage's revenue exceeded ten billion yuan; in 2024, sales receipts exceeded 20 billion yuan. The group fully implements a multi-category strategy, owning brands such as Eastroc Super Drink, Drink Up, Eastroc Grande, Shangcha series, Guozhicha, Duoheduorun, Island Coconut, and VIVI Cocktail. Currently, Eastroc Beverage has 13 production bases nationwide, with over 10,000 employees. Its distribution network covers 33 provincial-level administrative regions and 333 prefecture-level administrative regions across the country, and it is actively exploring overseas markets.

Daxiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Specimen Museum Address: No. 336 Zhongshan West Road, Shitan Town, Zengcheng District. Daxiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Specimen Museum is located at the Zengcheng production base of Guangdong Daxiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. It is a comprehensive professional exhibition hall integrating traditional Chinese medicine specimen preservation, medicinal material identification training, school-enterprise industry-education-research-study, traditional Chinese medicine culture popularization, and industry exchange display. It is also the core carrier for the enterprise to implement industry-education integration and inherit herbal culture. The museum has a building area of about 500 square meters and a collection of approximately 1,800 traditional Chinese medicine and herbal decoction piece specimens, including medicinal plant herbarium specimens, soaked specimens, authentic medicinal materials, processed decoction pieces, and authenticity comparison specimens, plus special exhibition areas for rare and toxic medicinal materials. Specimens are classified and displayed according to the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China, systematically showing medicinal material origins, production area distribution, and character identification points, visually presenting the complete evolution process of traditional Chinese medicine from original plants to cleaning, cutting, and processing into decoction pieces, balancing professionalism and观赏性.

Mountains and Rivers Environment · Nature Exploration Science Tour Route

Sixth Resource Thermal Power Plant Address: Xiancun Circular Economy Industrial Park, Zengcheng District. Guangzhou Sixth Resource Thermal Power Plant is located in Bitan Village, Xiancun Town. The Sixth Resource Thermal Power Plant Environmental Science Education Center was completed and opened to the public on December 19, 2018, and is Zengcheng District's first environmental education exhibition hall themed on municipal solid waste treatment. The Environmental Science Education Center mainly includes environmental science education area, party building activity area, project display area, sand table model demonstration area, multimedia audio-visual hall, and production control area, with beautiful ecological landscapes and scientifically reasonable exhibition hall layout. Various science exhibition projects create a modern technological experiential science education atmosphere, enhancing visitors' experience and interactivity.

Zengcheng Meteorological Science Education Base Address: No. 999 North Lijing Avenue, Licheng Street, Zengcheng District. Zengcheng Meteorological Science Education Base is located by the Zengjiang River, adjacent to Liantang Spring Scenic Area, covering 36 mu. It not only provides high-quality and efficient meteorological services for the district but is also a Zengcheng District science education demonstration base, Guangzhou science and technology popularization base, Guangdong Province science and technology popularization base, Zengcheng District Young Pioneers off-campus practice education base, and a new era civilization practice point. It is a great place to take kids and gain knowledge. The base has Zengcheng Meteorological Culture Science Museum, Zengcheng Emergency Early Warning Information Release Center, Weather Forecast film and television production studio, Zengcheng National Reference Climatological Station, and a field scientific observation and research station co-built with Sun Yat-sen University. It is a comprehensive meteorological science base with reasonable layout, complete structure, and advanced functions, integrating science, experience, and interaction.

Jinshan Geological Museum Address: No. 1 Xiangdong Road, Haojing Village, Zhongxin Town, Zengcheng District. Jinshan Geological Museum is located in Haojing Village, Zhongxin Town. It is a tourist attraction focusing on parent-child tours and study tours with rich collections. The museum was revitalized and renovated from a 600-year-old Ming Dynasty ancestral hall in Haojing Village and is the first rural natural science museum in the country. It displays 1,028 precious fossils and stone tool specimens, as well as 1,343 exquisite meteorite, mineral, and gemstone specimens. It integrates museum display, field scientific research, eight study course contents, Lingnan geological stories, and study travel.

Guangzhou Baishuizhai Geological Museum, Guangzhou Baishuizhai Provincial Scenic Area Address: No. 74-1 Beishan Road, Paitan Town, Zengcheng District (next to Parking Lot 1 of Baishuizhai Scenic Area). Guangzhou Baishuizhai Geological Museum (Jinshan Geological Museum Volcano Theme Hall), which began trial operation on June 11 this year, is Guangzhou's first professional volcano geological theme museum. It is built on the region's 180-million-year-old Jurassic ancient volcanic neck relics and the 428.5-meter drop Baishui Immortal Waterfall. The museum's theme is Water and Fire Splendor, Epic of All Things, displaying nearly a thousand rare geological specimens covering volcanic rocks, paleontological fossils, and rare minerals. AR immersive volcano simulation and interactive science exhibits vividly recreate the shocking scene of a volcanic eruption 180 million years ago, allowing both adults and children to easily understand the geological codes of Baishuizhai's landscape. Guangzhou Baishuizhai Provincial Scenic Area, as a national 4A-level scenic spot, boasts the largest drop Baishui Immortal Waterfall in mainland China, with verdant mountains and babbling streams. The 9,999-step sky ladder is a classic landmark, attracting nearby city tourists year-round to climb and refresh themselves in nature. From now until October 7, the scenic area offers eight major activities including waterfall concerts, landscape carnivals, geological study special sessions, anniversary exhibitions, Cantonese xiehouyu calligraphy exhibitions, waterfall weddings, and youth markets, keeping the excitement going from day to moonlit night.

Zengcheng Smart Manufacturing · Green Low-Carbon Science Tour Route

Nuentai Air Energy Heat Pump Smart Manufacturing Address: No. 125 Chuangyou Road, Ningxi Street, Zengcheng District. As a leading brand in China's air energy heat pump field, Nuentai has three major smart manufacturing bases in Guangzhou Zengcheng, Heyuan Longchuan, and the headquarters new district (under construction), with a total planned building area of 500,000 square meters. It has received multiple national-level recognitions including National Enterprise Technology Center, National Specialized and Sophisticated Key Little Giant Enterprise, and National Green Factory. The company has accumulated nearly a thousand authorized patents, participated in formulating 11 national standards, and owns 34 laboratories (including under construction) recognized by CNAS, SGS, Intertek, and other international organizations, building a full-chain digital-intelligent quality assurance system from research and development to manufacturing.

Pearl River Piano Science Base Address: No. 38 Xiangshan Avenue, Ningxi Street, Zengcheng District. Pearl River Piano Group is a comprehensive musical instrument cultural enterprise integrating piano, digital musical instruments, music education, and cultural media. Pearl River Piano Science Base is located at the Zengcheng Pearl River Piano National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base. It is a great place for citizens to relax, entertain, explore, experience science, and enjoy music, and is an ideal venue for youth to receive science and technology popularization education.

Meiji Food (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. Address: No. 35 Xiangshan Avenue, Ningxi Street, Zengcheng District (within the core area of Zengcheng Economic and Technological Development Zone). Meiji Food (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. is Meiji Group's first milk and yogurt production base in South China and also Meiji Group's first composite factory in China producing dairy products and chocolate snacks. The company is Meiji Group's sixth factory in China, costing 1.5 billion yuan and officially starting production in January 2024. With the production of the Meiji Guangzhou factory, Meiji China's dairy factories have formed a production capacity layout across North China, East China, and South China.

During the National Day holiday, visitor flow will be high. Please follow the WeChat official accounts of various scenic areas and venues in advance to learn about opening hours, reservation methods, and the latest activity arrangements. Some science venues and enterprise production bases require advance reservations or group reservations. Remember to check clearly before departure and arrange your itinerary reasonably to avoid disappointment.

The source: Zengcheng District Media Center Liu Xiaowen/text and photos. Comprehensive editor: Song Yuke. Responsible editors: Huang Jiarong, Chen Cuizhu. Reviewers: Hu Xiaosong, Zhang Huifang.