The prize-giving commendation meeting of the first "2011 Most Beautiful Villages in Anqing" selection was co-hosted by the Anqing Municipal Publicity Department, Anqing Civilization Office, Anqing Municipal Bureau of Tourism and the Anqing Daily Agency. Yangting village of Wuheng town, Yixiu district is among a total of 20 winners.

Yangting village is located in the northern foothills of the beautiful Dalongshan National Forest Park. It is the hometown of Deng Shiru, famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (AD1636-1911), and Deng Jiaxian, the father of China’s atomic and hydrogen bombs. Across the river lies the former residence of Huangmei opera performing artist, Yan Fengying. The village is reputed as a "cultural village".

In 2009, Yangting village exploited a mountain farm of 100 hectares under the premise of protecting its ecological resources. It has vigorously developed organic green tea travel tourism and established the famous tea making studio, allowing visitors to experience a series of working procedures from picking leaves to tea making.

The village has also set up tea art performance teams and has actively created an atmosphere of tea culture combining demonstrating tea products, tea tasting and watching the tea ceremony. The activities have attracted many sightseeing tourists and thus brought in economic benefits to the local people. The rural tourism is thriving in Yanting village.

Edited by Fu Bo and Rakhee (chinadaily.com.cn)