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Asia/Shanghai |
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UTC+8 |
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Europe/Madrid |
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UTC+1 |
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Baoying County, belonging to Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the hinterland of the Lixiahe River Plain, where the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through, and is known as the "Hometown of Lotus Roots in China" and the "Hometown of Mushrooms in China". With a dense water network and abundant produce, Baoying is one of the first national ecological demonstration zones and an important node of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Historically, Baoying was named after the "National Treasure", and has a rich cultural heritage, with monuments such as the "Nine Miles and One Thousand Duns" Han Tomb Complex. Nowadays, with lotus root industry as the core, ecological agriculture and rural tourism, Baoying is an ecologically livable city with the warmth of the Jiangnan water town and the abundance of the Central Jiangsu Plain, which makes Baoying a pleasant place to live and work.
Marinaleda, located in the province of Seville in the Andalusian region of Spain, is a village known worldwide as a "happy town". Under the impetus of Mayor Juan Manuel Sánchez Godoy, the village has implemented collective land ownership, free housing policies and democratic community decision-making, and its residents have achieved economic autonomy through cooperative agriculture, with a very low unemployment rate. The town advocates the concept of "slow life" and focuses on community cohesion, and has been awarded "Europe's Best Rural Tourism Destination" many times. Its unique "happiness model" has attracted tourists from all over the world and has become a living example of equality and community development, and has been described as an "anti-utopian utopia".