The Five-Road Mountain Ecological Travel Zone is located 18 kilometers north of Zuoyun county in the city of Datong. The zone’s northern area connects to a section of the Great Wall. The area includes a forbidding pass with an altitude of 2,041 meters. On the ecological zone, one can enjoy extraordinary scenery including multi-peaked mountains, deep valleys, steep cliffs and a spring creek.

Covering an area of about 117.6 square kilometers, the ecological travel zone has abundant wild animals and songbirds, such as roe deer, rabbits, wolves, snakes, pheasants and owls. There is also a natural mountain spring and more than 200 kinds of Chinese herbal medicinal plants in the region. These unique attributes make the zone a good place for tourism, hunting and vacation.

The construction of the zone is financed by Datong Five-Road Mountain Ecological Construction Development Company, (it has been contracted to develop roughly 79 square kilometers of mountain area with San Tun village in Zuoyun county). The first phase of construction will cost 65 million yuan ($10.44 million) and have a construction period lasting five years. The construction will create hunting grounds, hotels, water conservancy projects, breeding projects, a shooting range and ecological constructions.

A hotel for tourists, which covers an area of 10 mu (0.67 hectares) and has a building area of 3,000 square meters, has been completed and opened for business. The hunting grounds received approval from the Provincial Forestry Bureau. Hunting guns have been approved by the municipal public security bureau. The documents have been sent on to the Provincial Public Security Bureau for examination. The ecological zone has been equipped with livestock farms for cows, wood frogs and pheasants. The farms have already purchased 87 breeding yaks, 180 purebred Holstein cows, 830 Oula sheeps and Boer goats, 200,000 wood frogs and 130 boars.

In 2007, 20 million was invested to improve planting and breeding projects. The funds were also earmarked to bring in Wagyu cattle from Japan, operate the hunting grounds, and assist in the construction of a shooting range, racetrack, indoor swimming pool and ski resort.