Xinhua Silk Road: International economic, trade, tourism festival spurs dev. of E China's Yangzhou
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The 2020 China Yangzhou Flowery March International Economic, Trade and Tourism
Festival kicked off on April 18 in Yangzhou of east China's Jiangsu Province
with 36 key projects contracted at the opening ceremony.
It is learned that 178 projects with a gross investment of 187.83 billion yuan
will be contracted during the festival, involving advanced manufacturing,
modern services and sci-tech cooperation.
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During the festival, the city will issue tourism and catering cards to visitors
through online and offline channels to let them enjoy a cash rebate, aiming at
expediting the building of a well-known international cultural tourism city and
fostering the recovery of the service sector.
The festival also witnessed the unveiling ceremony of "Food Capital of the
World".
As a city with a history of 2,500-odd years, Yangzhou was rated as China's
fourth "Food Capital of the World" in 2019 after Chengdu in southwest China's
Sichuan, Shunde District of Foshan in south China's Guangdong, and Macao.
As a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Yangzhou has taken a
comprehensive set of actions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, and
introduced specific measures to support local catering sector, Ernesto Ottone
Ramírez, Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO, said via video
connection.
He believed Yangzhou has the ability to get through the crisis with its strong
cultural resources and gastronomic traditions.
Yangzhou will ramp up efforts in developing industrial clusters involving
automobiles and parts, high-end equipment, and new power equipment,
microelectronics and software and information service, and high-end textiles
and clothing, ocean engineering equipment and high-tech ships, biomedicine and
new medical devices, food, and aviation, said Zhang Baojuan, Mayor of Yangzhou.
The city is facing unprecedented development opportunities brought by the
Yangtze River Delta integration, the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and other
national development plans. The convenient modern transport, profound cultural
heritage and sci-tech innovation, international and standardized business
environment, and convenient living environment together make Yangzhou an ideal
place to live, work and start businesses, said Xia Xinmin, Secretary of CPC
Yangzhou Municipal Committee.
It's reported that the Flowery March International Economic, Trade and Tourism
Festival has been held for 19 consecutive years, and has become an important
platform for promoting Yangzhou's economic and trade cooperation and cultural
exchanges at home and abroad.
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