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CHONGQING, China, Sept. 24, 2020 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Featuring touching natural beauty and radiating prosperity, the Rongchang

District in west China's Chonqing Municipality held a livestreaming promotion

campaign as part of the 2020 Chongqing Showcase on Sept. 21. Livestreamed on

over ten online platforms, the promotion featured rich local tourism and

cultural products, gaining over 16.68 million views and 1,558,500 likes,

according to the Publicity Department of Rongchang District.

The 2020 Chongqing Showcase is a large-scale cultural tourism promotion

activity guided by the local government and widely participated by the society.

Rongchang District of Chongqing is located at the junction of Sichuan and

Chongqing. It was called Changzhou in ancient times and nicknamed a kingdom of

cherry-apple trees. It was an important gathering place for a major immigration

campaign in the Qing Dynasty and is known as "Living Fossil of Hakka Culture".

Rongchang, together with Foshan in Guangdong and Yixing in Jiangsu, is known as

China's three great pottery towns. Rongchang pottery is as famous as Jianshui

pottery, Qinzhou pottery and Yixing pottery, which make up "China's Four Best

Potteries". Rongchang folding fan, Suzhou silk fan and Hangzhou calligraphy and

painting fan are also called "China's Three Best Fans. The Xia cloth, one kind

of hand woven linen, has been a traditional craft for thousands of years.

Rongchang is a city of emerging industries. It has a "6+1"industrial system

dominated by consumer goods (food, medicine, ceramics, clothing), new

materials, intelligent equipment, electronic information, digital block chain,

sports health and high-tech agriculture and animal husbandry.

It is aslo a city of animal husbandry science and technology. There are

first-class animal husbandry teaching and research institutions in China such

as Rongchang Campus of Southwest University and Chongqing Academy of Animal

Husbandry. Rongchang pig is one of the world's eight largest and China's three

largest excellent local pig breeds, and its brand value ranks first in the

national local pig brand value list.

Rongchang is an open and innovative city. Rongchang is a national pilot city to

promote intellectual property development, a national foreign trade

transformation and upgrading base (textile), and a demonstration area of

innovation-driven development in Chongqing. Chengdu-Chongqing Railway,

Chengdu-Chongqing Intercity Railway, Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, Tongrong

Expressway and Dane Expressway under construction run through the whole

territory. Rongchang is currently actively integrating into the Belt and Road

Initiative, the development of the western region, the Chengdu-Chongqing

economic circle, and the new land and sea corridor in the western region.

It is also pushing forward with the construction of inland open highland with

Rongchang freight transport airport as the engine, and accelerating the construction

of a multimodal transport system integrating railway, road, waterway and air.

Rongchang is a happy and livable city. There are Laixi River National Wetland

Park, the "Top Ten Most Beautiful Towns in Chongqing" Wanling Ancient Town,  

the "Most Popular Tourist Destination" Antao Town, Xia Cloth Town, one of the

first batch of intangible heritage towns in Chongqing, as well as the ancient

Foshan Mountain with high and green mountains.

In recent years, Rongchang District has posted steady and healthy economic and

social development. In the first half of this year, Rongchang District realized

a GDP of 31.644 billion yuan, up 2.8 percent year on year, 2 percentage points

higher than that of the whole city. At present, Rongchang is focusing on the

goal of innovating and developing a new platform, a new high ground for

industrial economy, a new pattern of opening and integration, and a new green

and livable home. To speed up the construction of Chengdu-Chongqing integrated

development demonstration zone, national integrated urban-rural development

experimental zone, the country's first national high-tech zone with

agricultural and animal husbandry characteristics and the national animal

husbandry science and technology city, and strive to become an important growth

engine in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle.

Source: The Publicity Department of Rongchang District, Chongqing Municipality