The first industrial tourism route of Nanjing opened yesterday. Nanjing Cigarette Factory is listed the demonstration spots of national industrial tour firstly.

The industrial tour is very mature in developed countries. The famous world tourism cities have many industrial tourism projects, such as Citroen in France, Toshiba in Japan and Pohang in Korea, attracting the attention of thousands of tourists.

In recent years, industrial tour rises in many countries in China. Bao Steel in Shanghai, Faw-Volkswagen and Shanghai GM have become the hot industrial tourism scenic spots.

According to the introduction, among 103 "China Industrial Tourism Demonstration Spots" released by China Bureau of Tour in 2005, three industrial tourism scenic spots of Nanjing are listed on it, that is, Nanjing Cigarette Factory, Nanjing Gold Foil Group and Nanjing Yunjin Embroidery Graduate School.