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HAIKOU, China, Nov. 26, 2020 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Recently, the 2020 (21st) Hainan International Tourism Island Carnival officially

kicked off in Hainan, China. More than 170 activities, including concerts, beer

festivals, beach sports and culture week, are carried out in the province. Hainan

Free Trade Port welcomed the first joyous event in its opening year.

This Carnival's activities are more abundant than those of previous years,

including the 2020 Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week, 2021 "Voice of

Free Trade Port" New Year Concert, "Add Flowers to the Brocade" Classical Folk

Concert, 2020 BMW Hood to Coast China-Hainan Relay, etc. More than 170

activities covering conventions and exhibitions, culture and art, sports

events, sales promotion and other fields are held simultaneously in Haikou, as

well as in Sanya, Danzhou, Qionghai, Wanning and Lingshui.

Hainan International Tourism Island Carnival, as Hainan's signature tourism and

culture event, has had 20 successful sessions. It has become an important

platform for Hainan to strengthen tourism and cultural exchanges and

cooperation with the world and an important window for Hainan to fully display

its image of opening up to the world. This Carnival is co-sponsored by the

Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the People's Government of Hainan Province.

Fu Caixiang, Vice Governor of the People's Government of Hainan Province, said

in her speech that this Carnival is a large-scale tourism festival held in

Hainan amid regular pandemic prevention and control, and the first Carnival

held in Hainan Free Trade Port in its opening year. It is an internationally

influential cultural and tourism signature event that Hainan strives to create,

and an effective way to construct an international tourism consumption center

and to promote economic development and the upgrading of tourism consumption.

Source: The People's Government of Hainan Province

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   Caption: Actors perform Hainan-style dance at the 2020 (21st) Hainan International

Tourism Island Carnival.