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一 | 暑期是文旅消费旺季，居民休闲娱乐和出游意愿高涨，为消费市场带来蓬勃活力。离家不远、体验丰富的短途度假，走近山水、乐享自然的户外活动，放慢脚步、融入日常的康养旅居……休闲玩法层出不穷，体现出从“到此一游”转向深度体验的新趋势，为培育文旅消费新增长点拓展更大空间。

    A group photo from the 1999 donation ceremony, where Ronald Sakolsky presents $5,000 for afforestation efforts. Photo: Courtesy of Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School
At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
。    这个暑期，有哪些受欢迎的休闲方式？如何重塑文旅产品供给？记者进行了探访。    短途度假，诗意不必在远方     周末想来一场轻松的微度假，可以去哪里？在江苏南京，距离市中心1小时车程的溧水区成了市民暑期休闲的好去处。

二 | 这里不仅离南京市中心不远，还毗邻常州、镇江与安徽马鞍山，短途游客源丰富。上午10点，溧水区永阳街道凉篷下村，中医药文化体验基地已经热闹起来，20多名从常州来的游客正在听基地主理人丁小芸讲解。

三 | “凉篷下村被东庐山、无想山、秋湖山环抱，历史上一直有种植中药材山栀的传统。我们的中医药文化体验项目，可以教大家制作香囊、药皂、药膳等。”丁小芸说。几名学习制作香囊的游客，挑选了七八味中药混在一起，放进药碾子里碾成粉末，再用精致的香包装起来。“药香浓郁，体验的过程也很有意思。”一名游客说。下午，烈日当空，无想山是放松身心的好去处，茂盛的树木带来大片阴凉，正可供人休憩。行至秋湖竹海处，还可以到“无想咖啡”小坐。落地窗前，美丽的庭院、碧绿的竹海互相映衬，游客们纷纷拍照打卡。

四 | 继续前行，经过无想水库，来到山下的洪蓝街道张塘角村，不少游客选择到非遗主题民宿山南晓筑歇脚。民宿主理人颜雪敏配置好糯米粉，带着顾客制作米糕。调制米粉、筛米粉、填满格子、脱模上蒸柜……十几分钟后，香喷喷的米糕就出炉了。游客还可以去采摘、钓虾、抓鱼、体验茶艺等。傍晚时分，不少游客到石臼湖看日落。

五 | 高耸的灯塔、澄澈的湖水、伸向远方的栈桥、橘红色的落日相映成景。一支来自马鞍山的机车爱好者车队正在拍照。“这个地方出片，我们特意来打卡。

六 | 晚上还打算到晶桥镇的露营基地露营。

七 | ”车队队长秦先生说。 “溧水发挥靠近都市圈的区位优势，用好山水与本土文化资源，走‘小而精’的微度假路径，盘活乡村资源，打造沉浸式体验。”溧水区文化和旅游局党委书记、局长韦仁健介绍，区里打造“无想周末”文旅品牌，全区年接待游客接近2000万人次。微度假拉长游客停留时间，带动餐饮、民宿、农特产品消费，既丰富休闲供给，也带动村民增收，推动生态文旅协同发展。户外溯溪，亲近自然享野趣上午9点半，湖北武汉气温已升至30摄氏度，位于东西湖区柏泉街道的“森森布溪”溯溪营地一开门，就迎来了第一批游客。 “以前一到高温天，只能去商场吹空调。现在带孩子来溪边玩水，既能避暑又能锻炼身体。”正在溪边陪孙子玩耍的市民石冬贵说，他们一早从武汉市区出发，半小时就到了，“沉浸式溯溪，让人完全融入大自然，心情也变得清爽惬意。” 走进溯溪营地，绿树成荫，蜿蜒清澈的溪水穿林而行，游客正在其中嬉戏。“今年溯溪成了市民休闲的热门选择，我们营地日接待游客最多达1500人。”武汉临空港经济技术开发区城发投集团文化旅游发展有限公司负责人东先丹说。 “‘森森布溪’溯溪营地占地2.6万平方米，今年6月开业运营，围绕溯溪体验构建起多样化的游玩产品体系。”东先丹介绍，园区不仅推出露营、轻徒步、萌宠互动等丰富的日间活动，还精心打造了多档次的精品客房，并推出亲子套票，让游客一站式亲近自然、享受野趣。溯溪营地对面，还有一处无动力森林乐园。

八 | “在这儿可以体验攀岩、滑梯、独木桥等项目，一边探秘森林，一边强健体魄。

九 | ”东先丹说，营地还配备天幕、桌椅及烧烤炉具等设施，游客无需自带装备和食材，空手来即可开玩。 “平均每个人100多元，就可以在这里吃三顿饭，从早到晚不用换地方，吃喝玩乐都齐了。

十 | ”石冬贵说，这个暑期全家人都爱上溯溪这项省心又不贵的户外活动。烈日下，武汉许多户外场地细化服务，确保游客享受清凉体验。

十一 | 东先丹介绍，在“森森布溪”溯溪营地，桌椅下方会定时投放冰块；溪流沿线的雾化喷淋系统降低环境温度，其中还添加了驱蚊成分。

十二 | “依托湖泊、溪流、森林等自然禀赋，我们布局生态休闲文旅产业，吸引市民游客在户外活动中感受自然之美。”东西湖区文化和旅游局相关负责人说，下一步当地还将整合周边郊野绿道、生态农庄、特色采摘园等资源，推出更多融合自然体验、文化休闲的主题产品。悠然慢游，探寻别样烟火气清晨散步到凤霞路农贸市场，挑选新鲜实惠的瓜果蔬菜；午后漫步昭通古城寻访古韵，再落座老茶馆歇歇脚；傍晚走到省耕国学文化公园，赏落日铺满千亩湖面……这个暑期，四川宜宾游客张克华再次来到云南昭通昭阳区，开启惬意十足的“慢充游”。 “游在昭通，我们中老年人吃得安心、住得舒心、行得顺心、耍得开心。”退休后，张克华连续多年到昭阳区避暑旅居。今年，在当地组织的文旅大联欢中，广场舞、文艺展演轮番上演，张克华结识了不少新朋友。

十三 | “我打算以后年年都来这里旅居，把这里当成第二个家。

十四 | ”张克华说。今年暑期，长停留、深体验、融市井的“慢充游”正成为文旅消费新潮流。昭通市文化和旅游局局长王昌庆介绍，依托得天独厚的清凉气候和丰富的城乡文旅资源，昭通市精准贴合市场需求，大力培育特色业态，打造宜居、宜游、宜养的高品质避暑旅居目的地。

十五 | 丰富文体活动，让旅居“天天有乐子”。暑期以来，昭通统筹市县资源，联动推出1064场特色文体旅活动，邀请旅居游客与本地市民同台献艺、共娱共乐，在欢声笑语中拉近彼此距离。盘活全域资源，让旅途“处处有景致”。昭通深入推进景区品质提升行动，打造多条全域慢行休闲线路，培育特色市集、非遗小店、文创商铺等新业态，丰富游客旅居体验，让来客尽享移步换景、悠然慢行的山野市井之美。完善配套供给，让游客“居住更舒心”。当地整合酒店、精品民宿、乡村闲置民居等多种房源，搭建多层次、差异化的住宿体系，精准匹配游客短期观光、长期旅居的不同需求。今年6月以来，昭通避暑游客量同比增长7.98%，住宿、餐饮行业营业额同比增长25.8%。吸引游客的是清凉风景，打动游客的是暖心服务。昭通制定落实避暑旅游服务25条等措施，从市场监管、价格规范、柔性执法、交通疏导、志愿服务、优惠让利等方面优服务提效能。针对游客诉求，落实“5分钟响应，24小时办结回访”制度，以精细化、有温度的服务打动游客，守护文旅产业发展。（记者尹晓宇吴君叶传增）返回，查看更多。