“Baoji Cultural Tourism Festival 2023: Opening Ceremony Highlights and Activities”

The 12th Baoji Cultural Tourism Festival opens

On the morning of May 13, the opening ceremony of the 12th Baoji Cultural Tourism Festival was held in the square of Baoji Bronze Ware Museum. The theme of this year’s Baoji Cultural Tourism Festival is “Looking at China in Baoji” and “Traveling in Beautiful Baoji and Sharing a Happy Life”. Mayor Wang Yong attended the event and announced the opening of the 12th Baoji Cultural Tourism Festival.

This year’s Cultural Tourism Festival plans to hold 21 categories and more than 130 cultural tourism activities on a time-sharing basis throughout the year to promote regional tourism cooperation and polish the city’s tourism brand of “Seeing China in Baoji”.

Jing Yaoping, director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, and Zheng Xiaoyan, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, attended the opening ceremony. Zheng Xiaoyan pointed out in her speech that culture is a strategic resource of Shaanxi, and tourism is a symbolic business card of Shaanxi. In recent years, Baoji has firmly grasped the new trend and new characteristics of the integrated development of culture and tourism, aiming to build a “strong cultural city and a famous tourist city”, continuously promotes the deep integration of culture, tourism, business and sports, and promotes the high-quality development of the tourism industry for three years Actions, so that the development of Baoji’s cultural tourism industry has entered the province’s first phalanx. It is hoped that Baoji will take this cultural tourism festival as an opportunity to further expand the supply and demand platform, actively “attract tourists into treasures”, and create a new situation for the high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry.

Duan Xiaolong, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, introduced the development of Baoji’s cultural tourism in his speech. He said that the Baoji Cultural Tourism Festival has been held for many years and has become an important window and platform to display the city’s image, enhance the city’s charm, and expand Baoji’s influence. We sincerely invite you to enter Baoji to appreciate the beauty of nature, appreciate the beauty of culture, cultivate the beauty of the soul, and appreciate the beauty of manufacturing. Baoji will create an upgraded version of Baoji cultural tourism with better products, better services, and a more beautiful environment. Let the masses Enjoy the beautiful Baoji.

Shi Zhen, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor, presided over the opening ceremony; Bian Yani, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Propaganda Department, awarded plaques to the newly created national 4A-level tourist attractions Xifu Old Street Cultural Tourism Scenic Spot, Fengxiang East Lake Scenic Spot, and Shuicheng·Three Kingdoms Town Scenic Spot.

Leaders from the Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Provincial Sports Bureau and the Departments of Culture and Tourism of Northwest provinces and regions, city leaders Ding Shengren, Che Shuang, Li Xiaohong, scenic spots in 15 provinces and regions including Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Ningxia, More than 1,000 people including representatives of tourism industry associations and media reporters from central provinces and cities attended the opening ceremony.