This is a major highlight in Stone Forest - a leisure park combining modern technology and ecological agriculture, showing fashion by creativity in the countryside park. It includes Jinyuan Flower Park, Leisure Blueberry Manor, Apricot Tree Garden, and Aiboxin Grape Manor, etc.

Leisure Blueberry Manor

This is a comprehensive place for activities and games of visit, leisure, appreciation, study, staying, and food; it is a poetic and picturesque place with flourishing woods, tall bamboos, green grass, beautiful hills, and clear water, functioning as an unforgettable idyllic ecological manor. The manor is 8 kilometers from Shilin Railway Station, 8 kilometers from the world wonder Stone Forest Scenic Area, and 4 kilometers from the Naigu Stone Forest Scenic Area. It is an ideal place for leisure and holidays, covering an area of more than 5,600 mu together with convenient transportation and world natural heritage. The whole manor consists of four major parts including orchard, seedling garden, breeding garden, and leisure park. Fresh fruits are available in the manor all year round: cherries and blueberries in April; nectarines in May; plums, apricots and waxberries in June; grapes in July; pears in August; apples in September; and winter peaches in November and December. All kinds of fresh fruits have passed COFCC certification, and the products use homemade organic fertilizers without pesticide pollution.

Tel: 0871-67717999

Apricot Tree Garden

Apricot Tree Garden is located in the core zone of Taiwan Peasant Entrepreneurship Park in Shilin County, covering over 3,000 mu. In its central area there is Black Stone Forest covering 800 meters long and 30 to 80 meters wide and presenting a state of stone forest with strange and graceful stones. According to legend, this piece of stone forest was created by the Eight Immortals during a magical power competition, therefore vivid Tieguaili Stone, Donkey Stone, Finger Stone, Basket Stone, Vertical Bamboo Flute Stone, and Jade Belt Peak, etc. could be found in the forest; another legend is that Pharmacist Buddha Apodoromi used to appear in the dream of Agumusi, leader of Yi ethic group, instructing him to learn medical knowledge and help people, therefore thousands of herbal medicines are scattered in the stone forest, attracting bird singing and flower fragrance to become a rare “fairyland” in Ancient Dian Kingdom.

Apricot Tree Garden is a comprehensive project that is built on the background of herbal medicine culture with Yunnan characters and on Stone Forest the famous scenic tourist area in Yunnan Province, integrating herbal medical culture display and tourism with Black Stone Forest as landscape foundation and building four major functional zones around it. The project plan of Apricot Tree Garden is divided into six major parts: 1. agricultural high-tech demonstration zone; 2. Chinese medicine culture exhibition zone; 3. outdoor sports & development zone; 4. hot spring health recreation zone; 5.commercial zone of old town; and 6. Health recreation & retirement resorts.

With display and popularization of Chinese medicine culture as goal, tourism and leisure as the carrier, and promotion of Chinese medicine culture inheritance as content, Apricot Tree Garden interacts these three aspects to build a new  cultural tourism resort with unique characteristics for visitors to  comprehensively experience traditional Chinese medicine culture. After completion, this project will be the first scenery spot of national medical culture and the first science popularization and education place of Chinese medication in China. It will play an important role in promoting sightseeing in Stone Forest, protection of Chinese medicine culture, and popularization of medical knowledge. The total planned investment of this project is RMB 2.2 billion and the construction period is 5 years. The company has started construction in December 2012, having made it a unique highlight for tourism of Chinese medicine culture promoting the development of tourism economy around Kunming and Stone Forest.

Tel: 0871-66394026 0871-66394028

Aiboxin Grape Manor

Shilin Aiboxin Grape Manor was settled in Taiwan Peasant Entrepreneurship Park in May 2011. In this romantic season, Aiboxin invested RMB 10 million to build a demonstration base of organic fresh grape cultivation of over 350 mu to build a boutique park for fresh grapes. More than 350 mu of grapes with green leaves and veins produce fruit every month, and over 30 varieties have their own features respectively, Providing beautiful scenery as well as good fruit in the manor. According to the General Manager Li Wendong, Aiboxin uses the most advanced technology and cultivation model, and combines the company’s own grape varieties, becoming the leader of grape industry. It is also the first company in China proposing a new concept of “picking fresh grapes every day all year round”! As it is widely known that people usually have grapes in August to October, “picking fresh grapes every day all year round” from Aiboxin grapes is undoubted good news.

Aiboxin grapes are organically cultivated with no pesticides, fertilizers or hormones. Such grapes are absolutely non-polluting and can be eaten right after picked - “to eat grapes without spitting out grape skin”! If you visit Aiboxin Grape Manor in August, you can enjoy 4 to 5 grape varieties including Sweet peak, Black king with different tastes, and you will surely like them. “Picking fresh grapes every day all year round” is already marvelous while Aiboxin grapes have more than that. New arrival each month is also expected so that you can visit again to enjoy another taste - all regular customers have this idea!

Following Kunming-Shilin Highway till Stone Forest Scenic Area and turning left at the roundabout toward Naigu Stone Forest to enter Taiwan Peasant Entrepreneurship Park, You can enjoy breeze and sunshine along the way as well as sweet life of “picking fresh grapes every day all year round” in Aiboxin Grape Manor!

Tel: 15208711551

Yunyanyinxiang Tobacco Manor

Stone Forest Park of Yunyanyinxiang Tobacco Manor of Hongyunhonghe Group, located in Stone Forest Scenic Area, has been officially open since July 18. Stone Forest Park of Yunyanyinxiang Tobacco Manor covers 2,300 mu, of which 1200 mu is for green tobacco leaves, 600 mu is for plant perfume materials, having superior natural conditions.

At present, among Stone Forest Park, Honghe Park, Qujing Park, Tengchong Park and Weishan Park of Yunyanyinxiang Tobacco Manor, Stone Forest Park has already been completed, and the other four have had site selection for planning and implementation.

Three Major Advantages of Stone Forest Park

Ecological advantage: Stone Forest Park has similar elevation to that of Zimbabwe, favorable climatic conditions, and superior ecological environment for tobacco planting. The radiating area of the park is more than 100,000 mu with annual output of 300,000 dan (1 dan equals 50 kilos) of high-quality tobacco.

Variety advantage: the famous Honghuadajinyuan was first planted here. Among the main varieties in China, there is still none that can surpass Honghuadajinyuan in aroma, elegance, fragrance, sweetness and comfort.

Technical advantage: Stone Forest Park has exclusive technology for “green” production; it also has exclusive technology for “flavor blending at four levels”, which integrates flavor blending in tobacco planting, drying, maturing, and processing - this is an initial core technology that the company proposes after “massive flavor blending”.

Rhino Park (Shilin Longhui Wild Animal Research Center)

Longhui Wild Animal Research Center is one of the projects in Taiwan Peasant Entrepreneurship Park in Shilin County, aiming at research on the ex situ conservation of endangered rare wild animals and accumulating experience for that, saving endangered rare wild animals, and achieving sustainable use of them so that wildlife research in the featured tourism resources of endangered wild animals will become another new highlight for Stone Forest.

Shilin Longhui Wild Animal Research Center, founded on November 13, 2009, is a comprehensive investment and development project integrating breeding, scientific research, tourism and investigation of rare wild animals such as rhino and Siberian tiger. After three years of construction, the first phase of the project has taken shape with 13 wild animal farms (plants)and 10 animal sports fields, keeping 81 African white rhinos breeding (7 of which were bred in Shilin) and having introduced 3 giraffes and 4 zebras with the economic value of animals of about RMB 1.7 billion. Under the joint efforts of Shilin County and Longhui Group, this project is expected to become a research base for the featured tourism resources of endangered wild animals.

Jinyuan Flower

Shilin Jinyuan Flower Industrial Park is located in the Flower Industry Park of Taiwan Peasant Entrepreneurship Park in Shilin County, Yunnan Province. It is invested and constructed since December 2008 by Kunming Jinyuan Flower Industry Co., Ltd. with total investment of RMB 700 million, construction period of 5 years. The construction scale is 10,000 mu, including 3,000 mu for core area and 7,000 mu for production consisting of eight zones (International Flower Zone, Domestic Flower Zone, College Student Entrepreneurship Zone, Central Business Conference Zone, Folk Culture Exhibition Zone, Flower and Ecological Wetland Landscape Zone, New Rural Construction Zone, and Ecological Sports and Leisure Resort Zone) and one center (Reception Center), focusing on creating a modern flower industry cluster that integrates flower seedling breeding, production, display, post-harvest processing, packaging, facility agriculture, agricultural resources, logistics, research and development, eco-tourism, sports and leisure, folk customs and culture, and commercial exhibitions. 

Inside the park, 23 varieties are of independent intellectual property rights; 207 rose varieties, 71 gerbera varieties, and 28 carnation varieties are introduced from foreign countries. The park has also signed development cooperation agreements with Kirin Company (Japan), Delbard Company (France), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2011, the park planted 14.64 million plants of flowers including carnation, gerbera, rose, hydrangea, lisianthus, and lily, etc. and produced more than 200,000 fresh cut flowers daily, achieving sales revenue of RMB 53.7 million and net profit of RMB 17 million. In 2012, the park completed the pilot project of agricultural internet of things, achieving remote monitoring and management of production and planting.

The company has been adhering to equal attention to scientific development and local economic and social development. Since settlement in 2008, it has organized surrounding people to have three training sessions on gardening and flower skills, helping 406 local rural laborers to obtain national vocational and technical qualification certificates and achieve stable employment nearby; it has also influenced 934 households of surrounding ethnic areas for flower planting, promoting the optimization and adjustment of agricultural industrial structure.