The annual Yalu River International Tourism Festival is to be held from Sept 9 to 13 in Dandong city, Liaoning province, according to news released by the Information Office of Dandong Municipal People's Government on Aug 31.

The festival is co-sponsored by the Dandong Municipal People's Government and Liaoning Provincial Tourism Bureau. A series of activities will be carried out during the festival, including commercial tourism exhibitions and negotiations, contract signing ceremonies and theme tourism activities. A night yacht parade on Yalu River will be promoted as a major event of the festival.

Dandong is located at the easternmost tip of China's Great Wall and the northernmost beginning point of China's territorial seas, facing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the other side of Yalu River.

Edited by Chen Zhilin and Clark Cahill