Catering to discerning travellers and the growing China market, Beijing Tourism Group (BTG) and GHM have unveiled plans to set up a new upscale resort that will be branded, Ahn Luh.

Announced this week with hopes to have the first hotel project, Ahn Luh Dujiangyan, set up in Chengu in the next two to three years, the brand will promote and practise ‘China Services’, according to BTG chairman Duan Qiang which includes old-world Chinese hospitality, contemporary elegance and value added products.

“The Ahn Luh Dujiangyan is a project where the historical and cultural elements feature prominently given that the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, along with Mount Qingcheng, are placed together on the UNESCO World Heritage List,” Ahn Luh group executive chairman Douglas Zhao said.

New Upscale Resort Brand Launched; First Project is in Chengdu

Asia travel Tips; May 30 2012

The Beijing Tourism Group (BTG) and GHM have formalised a joint venture partnership and unveiled plans to launch an upscale resort concept branded Ahn Luh.

The partners, together with a third investor, the Great Ocean Group (GOG), said the group’s first properties will debut in the next two-to-three years.

The hotel group’s first project is the Ahn Luh Dujiangyan in Chengdu.

Over two thousand years old and still operational

Sandra Scott; Examiner; April 22 2012

A must-see when visiting Chengdu, China is the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project is 2,200 years old and eliminated seasonal flooding of the Minjiang River and is still used to irrigate the land. The project is considered one of the Treasures of Sichuan and today plays a crucial role in flood control, irrigation and providing water to many cities. The long walkway from the entrance to river has a beautiful fountain and is attractively landscaped. Along the walkway there are places that show how the original dam was constructed by using rocks held in place by mesh-like weavings originally made of natural fibers and later of metal.

The site is large but a trolley takes visitors up to the Yuzui Water-dividing Dike with an expansive view of the spill water area and the large gates that control the water flow. The river can be crossed via the Couple’s Bridge which is one of the Five Ancient Bridges of China. The current version resembles the 1803 bridge with a wooden plank floor and bamboo rails. While the bridge is sturdy and safe it does undulate giving it a swinging bridge experience that adds a little excitement to the crossing.

The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project can be visited on a day tour that also includes an historic pagoda, a scenic mountain Taoist complex, and an Ancient Village which is a large, beautifully built village that replicates an ancient village.

Dujiangyan Special: Traditional current flows through water festival

By Li Yu; China Daily; April 8 2012

Qingming Festival is usually a private event in which families honor their lost loved ones by burning paper money at their graves, but in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, the occasion is marked by a torrent of rushing water.

On the morning of April 4, the opening ceremony of the 2012 China Dujiangyan Qingming Water Releasing Festival drew thousands to the banks of the Minjiang River, which lies to the west of the city.

The festival will run until April 12.

The Vanishing Spring Light review: Death of a way of life

By Linda Barnard; Toronto; April 5 2012

A documentary about the approaching demise of a Chinese heritage street, directed by Xun Yu. 113 minutes. Opens April 6 at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. PG

Grandma Jiang spends so much of The Vanishing Spring Light wishing to die, it comes as a shock when the chain-smoking elderly matriarch does just that in Montreal-based Chinese filmmaker Xun “Fish” Yu’s award-winning doc.

Born around the time of Mao’s Long March, Grandma Jiang bought a tiny house on a former branch of the ancient Silk Road called West St. in what is now a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan province.

Event opens floodgates of wonder

By Huang Zhiling;China Daily; April5 2012

Thousands view re-enactment of traditional water release

Ante Simonic, Croatian ambassador to China, was impressed when workers cut the ropes to release rafts blocking the water in the Minjiang River in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, releasing a torrent from the mighty river into the fertile Chengdu Plain.

"It's so amazing that the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project is still in operation after more than 2,000 years and benefits people. It represents China's 5,000-year-old civilization," he told China Daily.

Water-releasing Ceremony Opens at Dujiangyan

By DingXiaoXiao; Shanghai Daily; April 5 2012

A man fastens bamboo ropes to a tree trunk after the ropes holding a cofferdam were cut loose during the water-releasing ceremony in Dujiangyan on Qingming Festival on Wednesday.

Dating back to 978 AD at the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site, in southwestern China Sichuan Province, the water-releasing ceremony, an annual event laden with rituals, heralds the advent of the sowing and plowing season in spring after a temporary cofferdam was built in the dry season in winter to block out the Minjiang River waters so that maintenance works can be done on the irrigation system.

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