Huma Taoyuan Peak Scenic Area

　　In "The Peach Blossom Spring," a literary work by Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he used positive romanticism to depict an idyllic society where “the grass is fresh and flowers in full bloom.” It is evident that Tao’s “Peach Blossom Spring” could only exist on paper, and people’s longing for it could only remain in their dreams. In fact, in the vast north of our motherland, in the beautiful and fertile Huma County, along the eastward-flowing Heilongjiang River, there is a place even more beautiful and more real than the “Peach Blossom Spring”—the Taoyuan Peak Scenic Area in Huma County.

　　“Taoyuan Peak” is the name of the Heilongjiang Kuankuan Taoyuan Peak Hydropower Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as Taoyuan Peak Hydropower Station). The name is indeed beautiful and enticing. Speaking of “Taoyuan Peak,” the locals in Huma speak with pride: the character “Taoyuan” (Peach Blossom Spring) naturally comes from the “Land of Peach Blossoms” due to the unique geographical location and beautiful natural environment of the hydropower station; the character “Peak” literally means “mountaintop,” but here it is used in a transferred sense—referring to the “highest point” or “pinnacle,” symbolizing the hydropower station’s “abundant water storage and sufficient electricity generation.” One can’t help but marvel at the talent and spirit of the people in Huma County, who have given such a pure and poetic name to a small hydropower station, and even more so at how everything here truly lives up to its name.

　　The Taoyuan Peak Hydropower Station is located within the territory of Sanka Township, Huma County, on the lower reaches of the Kuankuan River, a right-bank tributary of the upper Heilongjiang River. It is less than 10 kilometers from the China-Russia border river—the Heilongjiang River, 20 kilometers from Duliukou, known as the “No.1 Bay Under Heaven,” and 90 kilometers from Huma County. It is the northernmost hydropower station in China. In this sense, the geographical location of the Taoyuan Peak Hydropower Station is truly at the remote northern edge, truly situated in a “land apart.”

　　Transportation Guide

　　Scenic Area Address: Sanka Township, Huma County, Daxing’anling Region, Heilongjiang Province

　　Self-driving Route: Depart from Jiagedaqi, take the Jiamo Highway to Tahe, then transfer to the Heiluo Highway to Huma, then switch to the Heihu Highway to Kuankuan Village, and from there drive directly to the hydropower station.