Officials in Anshun city in the southwestern Guizhou province have pledged to push for rural tourism growth in the coming years at the third session of the Anshun Tourism Industry Development Conference.
The conference took place on May 28 at a leisure agricultural park in Puding county, Anshun. The park, named Baihua Huanle Dashijie ("happy world of flowers" in Chinese) is one of the rural tourism projects the city is promoting. Orchid cultivation and exhibition will be a feature of the park to entice horticulture lovers from far and wide.
Foreign diplomats, local dignitaries, and representatives of travel agencies from across China attended the event. They were treated to folk art performances and learned about the diversity of local culture and recent tourism developments in the city.
A Dixi opera performance is staged at the third session of the Anshun Tourism Industry Development Conference in Anshun, Guizhou province, on May 28. [Photo by Liu Sitong] |
Luis Jorge Roa Corredor, Minister Counselor at the Embassy of Colombia in China, attended the event to identify cooperation opportunities in the tourism industry. Ukrainian Ambassador Oleg Dyomin, Ecuadorian Ambassador Jose Maria Borja Lopez and Iraqi Ambassador Abdul-karim Hashim Mostafa also made appearances at the event.