Chizhou is a tourist city with great reputation. The city is rich in cultural and tourism resources,with over 300 tourist attractions, including one 5A-levelattractionand 17 4A-levelones. There are Jiuhua Mountain,a World Geoparkandone of the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism,Shengjin Lake, the only internationally important wetland in Anhui Province and known as "China's Crane Lake", Xinghua Village,known as the "No. 1 Poetic Village in the World" and described inDu Mu’sline"the cowherd boy points afar" , and Guniujiang, known as "the last primitive forest in East China" and“Gene bank of natural flora and fauna”.The Hualongdong Man, the earliest ancient human evolving into Homo sapiens in East Asia, dating back approximately 300,000 years, wasalsodiscoveredin Chizhou.In 2024, the city received 76.1472 million tourists. Shitai County is honoured as the Most Beautiful Original Ecological Mountain Town and the Most Beautiful Ecological County of Leisure and Tourism in China.