Introduction

Hou-tong was famous for its minerals, Jiou-fen and Pinxi nearby in the beginning. They transported minerals in the same railroad. When civilization became more and more progress, the mineral industry was dropped behind, every region became a new characteristic of tour, which was based on tourism. And Hou-tong became the village of cat gradually, which was famous in the world.

The village of cat originated from Jian-Pei-Lin who is the madam of cat. As a photographer, after she came to Hou-tong and took the pictures of street cats, she guided the public about the health and hygiene of the street cats, and appealed that not to abandon the pet cats as you wish. In the beginning, only the residents fed food to the street cats, they didn’t expect that it lead many street cats to go there. When the quantity of cats became more and more, Hou-tong became to the village of cat unconsciously, and chosen as the “six cat viewing spot in the world” of CNN in 2013.

When the mineral industry went into decline, miners got older, the young people went out to work in the city, the population decline, but Hou-tong region created a new type because of cats, many people went there, many cats needed to be taken care of, so Hou-tong established the volunteer association, and the cats in Hou-tong was taken good care. But the number of cats didn’t decrease, more and more cats were abandoned, which is the important problem that Hou-tong faced to. There are negative problems, which have to be concerned in the meantime when tourism is in vogue.