Wulao Peak mountaineering festival is a scenic area through the combination of tourism and fitness activities, actively promote and popularize mass mountaineering activities with the theme of "national fitness", gradually formed the atmospher of masses love sports and consciously participate in sports training in the whole city and some provinces, cities, regions.
In May 2000, the fitness mountaineering competition was held in the Wulao Peak scenic area. Yongji Sports Committee took the lead and Wulao Peak Company was responsible for organizing more than 2,000 cadres and employees in the whole city, which initially formed the prototype of mountaineering festival. In April 2001, also with Yuncheng Municipal Party Committee Publicity Department, Yuncheng Sports Committee, Yongji Sports Committee Publicity Department, Yongji Sports Committee jointly hosted the first national fitness mountaineering festival of Wulao Peak, and more than 200 athletes from 13 counties, cities and districts of Yuncheng participated in the competition.
On April 25, 2002, the second national fitness mountaineering festival of Wulao Peak opened. This activity was jointly sponsored by the Publicity Department of Yuncheng Municipal Party Committee, Yuncheng Municipal Sports Bureau, Yuncheng Municipal Tourism Bureau and Yongji Municipal People's Government. In addition to the 13 counties (urban districts) of Yuncheng, there were 42 teams of Shaanxi Weinan City, Henan Sanmenxia City and the national healthy old people's teams, with about 500 athletes participating.The competition starts from Zhongyukou to Wulao Temple. The whole course is 7.3km, forming a standard track. This activity, instead of the previous single mountaineering competition, has been expanded into a varied and healthy self-entertainment program for people, such as mountaineering challenge, mountaineering treasure hunt, mountaineering exploration, literature and art performance, famous mountain parade, etc.
In 2003, despite the impact of SARS, the Organizing Committee of the third Wulao Peak Mountaineering Festival took a decentralized, batch by batch and flexible form to carry out mountaineering activities.
The activities of Wulao Peak mountaineering festival were identified as "Shanxi Venue of National Mass Fitness Mountaineering Conference" by mountaineering management center of General Administration of Sport of China in the year of 2004.The activity of this year, which was sponsored by Shanxi Provincial Sports Bureau and Shanxi Provincial Tourism Bureau, and nearly 800 athletes from the national mountaineering management center and 62 delegations from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces were invited to take part in the competition.
In 2005, on the basis of the original items, the fifth Wulao Peak Mountain Climbing Festival increased some new sports items, such as ten thousand people's long-distance running around the city, Chinese chess and Chinese chess competition. In the same year, it was awarded "National Advanced Unit of Mass Mountaineering Activities" by mountaineering management center of General Administration of Sport of the People’s Republic of China.
In April 2010, the National People Mountain Climbing and Fitness Congress, the 10th Wulao Peak National Fitness Climbing Festival was held in Shanxi province. The purpose of this activity is to "Imagine National Exercise, Display the Yellow River Feelings, Build Sports Brands and Improve the Taste of the City". The activities are strongly supported by the mountaineering management center of the State Administration of Sports, the Provincial Sports Bureau, the Provincial Mountaineering Outdoor Sports Associations and governments at all levels. The activities are rich and diverse. On April 25, Shanxi TV held a grand opening ceremony performance. At the same time, more than a thousand mountaineering enthusiasts and foreign friends from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Sichuan, and Tibet gathered together for the challenge of mountaineering.
