An indoor wine hot spring. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

Shenquan Guyu, a large-scale health and leisure village club, covers an area of more than 4,000 acres in Yanggao county, Datong city in North China's Shanxi province, and is home to one of the largest hot spring bases in North China.

The club offers a variety of leisure activities, including paying a visit to Xujiayao Culture Zone, where visitors can get a better understanding of Xujiayao people, offspring to Chinese sinanthropus, riding the horse, taking a look at Hetian Jade, one the rarest forms of the gemstone, watching the ultra-luxury leisure star cinema, taking a bite of authentic local cuisines, or just enjoying the hot springs of different sizes and with different healthy functions.

It is worth noting that hot spring industry, one of the emerging industries in China, has gained momentum in Datong city thanks to its rich hot spring resources in the Hunyuan, Tianzhen and Yanggao counties. And the local government also has taken the hot spring industry as the driver to boost economic and tourism growth.

A big and clean indoor swimming pool. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

The village club takes advantage of hot spring as the theme in hotel building with a total area of 63,000 square meters, including 24,300 square meters of indoor hot springs, 12,000 square meters of outdoor ones, and 26,700 square meters of infrastructure and functional service areas. The water here is collected from mineral hot springs, and the temperature of the water can be as high as 63.5 degrees Celsius, therefore, visitors can also enjoy outdoor hot springs in winter.

The village club vigorously develops green agriculture industry and has invested more than 200 million yuan in the solar-conservatory botanical gardens for people to appreciate, which acts as a place for visitors to embrace the nature.

The club can receive more than 6,000 tourists at the same time and was awarded as the national-level cultural tourism project in 2017.

After you are tired, you can enjoy a rich meal at the village club. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

An outdoor swimming pool. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

Visitors can ride horses at the village club. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

After you are tired, you can enjoy a rich meal at the village club. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

Statutes adorn the indoors. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

Visitors can enjoy different hot springs indoors. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]