For years, the city home to multiple world- and national-level intangible cultural heritages (ICH) has been engaged in holistic protection, systemic inheritance and innovative revitalization of local historical and cultural heritages.

With concrete efforts, Quanzhou managed to preserve the original appearance of historical and cultural relics.

For instance, the renovated Dacheng Hall of Confucius Temple there reserves the original style and the recovered historical and cultural streets well balance the needs of daily life and landscape protection.

Such pragmatic preservation practices together with the establishment of protection centers of various levels help the city craft a "living ancient city" and a basket of model zones for stellar cultural relics protection.

In the ancient-style alleys and streets there, cultural heritage is brought into everyday lives of locals, who are free to immerse themselves in the slow-paced but elegant melody of Quanzhou Nanyin, dramas of lifelike puppets, or the engaging beauty of floral wreaths from Xunpu Village.

When a well-planned public culture regime functions smoothly, exquisite cultural works flourish in Quanzhou where cultural and art teams and talents gather for cultural communication activities and diverse performances.

Currently, rich cultural heritages-driven cultural industry has grown as a competitive engine propelling high-quality development of the city.

In Anxi County, Tieguanyin represents not only a popular tea, but also a burgeoning sector encompassing tea manors, cultural study tours and homestays.

In Yongchun County, potential of traditional incense-making culture was unlocked through incense product R&D, incense therapy-based wellness, creative incense cultural products production, and related sales at home and abroad.

In Dehua County, white porcelains have walked into modern home furnishings market, artistic collections, and creative fashion products sector and became a sensation amid the trending China-chic.

Last year, output value of Anxi's tea industry, Yongchun's incense industrial chains and Dehua's ceramic industrial clusters reached 46.05 billion yuan, 13.5 billion yuan and 76 billion yuan respectively.

In Quanzhou, other ICHs such as stone carvings from Hui'an County are also being explored to contribute to the clustering of local cultural industries with distinctive characteristics.

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These teams, comprising high-quality tech talents from 425 reputed colleges and universities from 19 countries and regions, are vying not only for the competition rewards, but also for support from the event's full-cycle support regime.

In Hefei, GUiTEK Service Platform (Anhui Province) Co., Ltd., one of the event organizers, has prepared a range of facilitation measures for participating teams, from support for competition participation to matchmaking with market resources.

Available now are ready accesses to preferential policies, fund roadshow resource offering, startup loans and other sci-tech innovation financial products, free accommodation at Hefei's tech talent stations, channels to industrial chain resources, and related training as well.

It is thus unsurprising that this year's program teams altogether contribute programs in 19 cutting-edge fields, including 555 programs in emerging industries such as artificial intelligence (AI), low-altitude economy and commercial aviation, 501 ones in major industries of Anhui, and 146 programs for future-facing industries including quantum technology and embodied intelligence.

They, over half of which are tech talents with doctoral degrees or master degrees, are bringing advanced technological visions for Anhui as the competition is not only an arena of technological competition, but also a wind vane for future industrial trends.

These "sci-tech innovation dream-seekers," referring here to tech talents coming to Hefei and Anhui for sci-tech outcome transformation, stand currently for an invitation that Hefei sends to global business starters to craft it into a highland of tech innovation.

Later in August, appraisal of the 1,202 registered programs is scheduled to begin and the finals are due in September for these dream-seekers, partially from Harvard University, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, Stanford University, Yale University, and famous Chinese universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) to go with their dreams.

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The concert drew crowds of audiences to recapture the reality-based touching ecology preservation stories of the TV play.

Early in 2026, screening of "Born to be Alive" through mainstream TV channels in China made part of its main shooting locations in Delingha become household names and its original theme songs got popular as distinctive art IPs among the TV play fans.

For instance, Keluke Lake, Tuosu Lake and Baishu Mountain in Delingha City of northwest China's Qinghai Province are known to the public for their serenity, gem-like water or idyllic beauty.

Amid the catchy tunes of symphony classics such as "Ode to the Red Flag" and "Reba Dance," and local ethnic songs, the 80-minute-long concert reached its climax as the scenery-specific scenarios resonated with audiences' in-person feelings of environmental changes brought by Qinghai's ecology protection.

On August 4, the concert jointly performed by Tianjin Symphony Orchestra and Qinghai provincial performing arts group was reproduced at Qinghai Grand Theater of Xining, capital of Qinghai Province to extend the high-quality artistic offering to locals.

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Famed for cool waterside scenery and picturesque mountain views, Weihai is an ideal summer resort where many Chinese, Russian and Thai travelers have lingered lately to escape the summer heat.

Boasting gentle sea breezes during the daytime and comfortable land winds at night, the city enjoys a relatively low summer temperature averaging around 27-28˚C and has been marked on a map of recommended summer resort resources across China.

The map, which highlights four types of summer resorts including seaside ones, was released by the National Climate Center under the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Weather China, a meteorological public service brand of CMA as well.

Last week, even rain showers failed to deter tourists from visiting Weihai. From Anyang of central China's Henan Province, a Chu-surnamed visitor and his family members toured Weihai for three days to experience a cool summer and joy of sand playing there.

Similar to them, other tourists from south China's Guangdong Province and localities steeped also in scorching summer are broadly impressed by its pleasant environment.

As Russian visitor Osipovaiana said, Weihai is an amazing coastal city with clean shorelines, towering mountains and lush greenery, making her friends eager to tour the city again in the future.

Other friends from Thailand were equally fond of Weihai, where they spent days taking double-decker buses to feel the charm of Chinese-style architecture set against blue skies and waters there.

Getting on the bus, Thai tourist Nattawipa Chantori was surprised by the vehicle's rain and ultraviolet ray-resistant glass, saying passengers could see the scenery around without getting off, and that such new energy buses are not available in Thailand.

These tourism service upgrades are complemented by ticket-stub-based benefits launched by nearly 200 local merchants this summer and diverse sought-after activities including the digital imaging and live performance-featuring historical drama Ode to Dingyuan Ship, sea sightseeing cruises, seafood search or beach musical festivals, and beer-offering buses amid optimized multilingual travel services in Weihai.

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At the current prime time of summer vacation, waterside coffee, aquatics, outdoor musical events, mountainside lifestyle and parent-child study tours are what Rizhao focuses on to blend experiential consumption with sightseeing to enliven citywide tourism.

For instance, tourists strolling along the golden beaches of Rizhao can find vessels leading to Taohua Island where they can enjoy the serene seaside romance amid scent of coffee from the Sun+Water island coffee store.

As a tourist from Ji'nan, capital of Shandong Province said, the store was the first stop of her tour in Rizhao and the combination of picturesque island scenery and yummy coffee impressed her deeply.

In local Olympic Aquatics Center, the new Lakeside Star Isle Coffee store is also engaging young coffee lovers who can easily spot the nearby aquatic fun such as dragon boat and paddle board rowing.

Such new popular local attractions are typical embodiment of how creative micro-scenarios are reshaping Rizhao's tourism landscape currently.

From its lighthouse scenic zone to seaside national forest park, ultra-long coastlines offer the city supreme spaces to house coffee stores of varied styles.

Similar experiential consumption is also occurring at a host of China-chic tea stores there, with 35°Tea and TEATAO'S among the local sector leaders.

In Wanpingkou Seaside Scenic Zone, micro-scenarios that highlight sunrise, dynamics, romance, trendy toys and sports are bringing cool experiences for young visitors such as low-altitude helicopter tours, drifting "in the air", etc.

When quality musical performances are ongoing in local canyons and mountains, aural entertainment blends better with visual leisure there together with camping, drifting, stream tracing alongside natural spring waterways, off-road races, and outdoor study tours.

To better cater to summer travel needs of the young visitors including schoolchildren, local scenic areas and venues have rushed to offer cool study scenarios.

At a space exploration wonderland that debuted in Rizhao International Expo Center on July 5, fresh scenarios such as the giant 10K resolution stellar-showing screen, meteorite crater landscaping, space training camp, and Mars amusement spaces are inviting parents and children to explore the magic of aerospace.

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The event, entitled Guotai Haitong AI Investment and Financing Forum under the theme of "AI Foresight, Co-Creating the Future", reflects the company's latest efforts to implement its "All in AI" strategy and promote financial technology (fintech)-driven capital market development.

Apart from a panoramic presentation of its deployment across the entire securities industry chain, Guotai Haitong Securities also showcased a number of eye-catching AI fintech innovations at the conference.

For instance, its reliable and controllable AI-Ready financial large language model (LLM) was unveiled to the public together with Lingxi 3.0, the latest iteration of the company's AI investment companion application and Vintex enterprise version, the company's comprehensive investment service platform.

So far this year, such AI fintech innovations of the Chinese securities broker have been widely applied in more than 260 scenarios across six categories of institutional users, including investment banks and wealth management institutions.

Already serving over 400 million investors, Guotai Haitong Securities' AI innovations marked the broader progress of fintech which has evolved from "concept exploration" to "mass application".

During the forum, a report named "A Panoramic View of Global AI Trends (2026)" that probed into the public listing pathways of AI companies in China was released by Guotai Haitong Securities.

As the broker suggested, quality AI firms could prepare in growth phases for initial public offerings such as listing on the sci-tech innovation board (STAR Market) and ChiNext board to access funding for sci-tech innovations.

Optimistic about China's capital market over the long run, the Chinese securities company expected that, with the support from the capital market, the promising sci-tech industry represented by AI could bring about dual growth in corporate profitability and valuation.

In the future, Guotai Haitong Securities pledged to further leverage its "All in AI" strategy to help more sci-tech businesses go public, reinforcing the capital market's role in enabling high-quality innovation.

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The tea, once winner of a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, was first crafted by tea makers in Tanyang Village in Fu'an, southeast China's Fujian Province, with locally-grown tea leaves during the Qing Dynasty, and rose to global fame thanks to its rich flavor and mellow taste.

While preserving traditional tea-making techniques, Fu'an is embracing modern technologies to establish a digital industrial chain covering seed breeding, eco-friendly plantation and quality traceability. The adoption of technologies is continuing to drive quality improvement and local industrial upgrading.

Backed by the tea research institute of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fu'an has made sustained efforts in seed breeding of superior tea varieties, preserving more than 4,000 tea genetic resources and developing dozens of premium varieties.

In 2020, China's first 5G smart tea plantation demonstration zone was established in Tanyang. Equipped with Internet of Things sensors, drone inspections and integrated irrigation and fertilization systems, the demonstration zone has enabled more precise and standardized plantation management, significantly improving tea quality and production efficiency.

In recent years, Fu'an has introduced a series of supportive measures to promote the high-quality development of the Panyong Congou tea industry. It invests more than 20 million yuan (about 2.95 million U.S. dollars) annually to facilitate industrial upgrading, while encouraging the integration of tea with tourism, consumption and technological innovation, transforming the industry from traditional tea production into a diversified industry.

Statistics show that Fu'an produced 28,000 tonnes of primarily processed tea in 2025, generating an output value of 2.3 billion yuan  (about 339 million U.S. dollars). The tea industry's total value across the entire industrial chain reached 13.8 billion yuan (about 2 billion U.S. dollars), while the brand value of Panyong Congou rose to over 9.5 billion yuan (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars).

From time-honored tea that scented the world to a tech-driven innovative specialty tea, and now to a tea that boosts rural prosperity, the century-long evolution of Panyong Congou offers a vivid example of the high-quality development of Fujian's distinctive tea industry. 

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With its second generation of sodium-ion batteries coming off the production line recently, Shandong Dejin New Energy Science and Technology Co., Ltd. received sufficient orders from home and abroad.

Scheduled to fulfill these orders by November, the Longkou-based company produces 85 percent of the ordered batteries widely used in energy storage stations, new energy vehicles and special equipment for overseas buyers.

Currently, its upgraded high-end battery products available for mass production at its two manufacturing bases are undergoing multi-scenario performance testing and are expected to be officially released within the next year.

Such bustling production scenes of the local manufacturer offer a chance for people to feel the heartbeat of Longkou's multi-pillar-featuring industrial layout where emerging and upgraded traditional industries jointly underpin its high-quality growth fundamentals.

For years, the county-level city has delved into developing strategically emerging industries such as new energy and new materials and managed to cultivate a batch of sci-tech innovation-driven backbone enterprises.

By encouraging local high-tech businesses to seek breakthroughs in related core technologies, Longkou saw overall upgrading across certain emerging industrial chains and accelerated the smart and green transformation of traditional industries.

For instance, a fully automated industrial pallet production project in Nanshan Industrial Park of Longkou is poised to vitalize the existing production system of a local chemical producer as recycled modified plastic product manufacturing well practices the green development philosophy.

Designed with nine smart production lines, the project is capable of producing as many as three million pieces of recycled plastic-based industrial pallets upon operation after the current equipment testing.

While bolstering emerging industries and upgrading traditional sectors, Longkou also made efforts to advance intelligent agriculture, farm produce deep processing and agricultural tourism to strengthen the pillars of its local economy.

Nowadays, characteristic industrial clusters for new energy batteries, high-end aluminum materials, digital economy and auto parts have taken shape there, pooling nearly 500 related enterprises which generate over 250 billion yuan of gross output value annually for the city with the largest number of listed companies across all county-level localities across Shandong.

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21 elite provincial teams and nearly 300 professional athletes gathered at the Liaoning Gymnasium to compete for team glory.

By creating a unique experience featuring "Traveling with Sports Events", Shenyang took badminton as the medium and promoted the integrated development of culture, tourism, sports and commerce.

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Crafting one of the optimal destinations for county tourism across China represented what Tengzhou did in recent years to reshape its development strengths in cultural tourism sector, noted Wang Guangbu, Party Chief of Tengzhou.

While leveraging its rich natural, cultural and historical resources, Tengzhou has profoundly fostered all-for-one tourism and sharpened its public cultural tourism brand that highlights its identity as a "land of goodness" and its deep cultural bond with ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi, said Wang.

In the county-level city, visitors can always savor local cuisines, bask in the charm of local mountains and waters, and draw insightful inspirations from the ancient Chinese civilization.

For instance, tourists from near and far may find it captivating to catch a glimpse of the vast wild lotus fields in Weishan Lake red lotus wetland scenic area and to wander through local countryside to enjoy tranquility.

Talking "face to face" with Mozi in his memorial hall in Tengzhou, travelers can also opt for inheriting the spirit of his scientific endeavors and immerse themselves in the joys of whole-area study tours there.

During the event's opening ceremony, recommendations by cultural tourism influencers, the release of a promotional video and partnership agreements signed between two cultural tourism groups from Tengzhou and Hubei Province added to the bustling vibe of the tourism season.

Setting 12 sub-events, the 23rd China (Tengzhou) Weishan Lake red lotus wetland cultural tourism season brought together 80-plus lotus exhibitors from home and abroad to present more than 10,000 pots of pretty lotus flowers of over 800 varieties.

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Attendees at the forum are engaging in in-depth exchanges on a wide range of international communication topics, including world heritage protection, and regional and country-specific studies. They noted that Yunnan's well-recognized achievements in Asian elephant conservation have offered a vivid example of China's efforts to advance ecological civilization and promote harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature.

Since its launch in 2022, the forum has built itself into an influential international communication platform using the beloved Asian elephant as a bond, and has evolved into an important window for sharing China's stories, presenting Yunnan's development, and facilitating exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.

During this year's event, a report from the Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with Xinhua News Agency, titled "Living in Harmony with Nature: The Ecological Civilization Behind China's Wild Elephant Sanctuary" has been released. The report offers an in-depth analysis of the Chinese practice of wild elephant protection, and summarizes experiences and inspirations for pursuing modernization featuring harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature.

A launch ceremony for the global release of a documentary film on Asian elephants has also been held on the sidelines of the forum, to further amplify the international communication appeal of the "Asian elephant IP."

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Since the 2026 Xiao County Fuyang Cultural Festival kicked off on July 15, the local food streets have been teeming with flavorful mutton cuisines including the widely acclaimed mutton soup.

Diversified thematic activities such as cultural performances, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) exhibitions, sports carnivals, quality local produce sales, and cultural tourism experiencing events are being staged there.

At Xiao County Sports Center Square, crowds of spectators are spotted cheering for the dazzling light and shadow shows presenting stories of historical figures and local opera performances.

During the festival's opening ceremony, programs combining drum music, street dance, folk dance and scenario role-play were put on stage to depict the heroic life journey of Liu Yu, a Southern Dynasties (420-589) emperor.

Amid a standing ovation at the end of the opening ceremony, a reputed actor portraying Liu Yu started a monologue reminiscent of his beloved mutton soup, saying that despite his decades of eventful life, mutton soup from the hometown remained his favorite.

When these history-involving scenes echo with the enduring charm of local mutton cuisines, the characteristic food streets and zones exhibiting northern Anhui ICH items outside the Sports Center Square also remain a fascination for visitors.

Elsewhere in Xiao County, parallel celebrations for the festival are ongoing in the picturesque Shengquan Ancient Town, a village tourism site in Baitu Town, Dingli Town, Huangcangyu Scenic Area and Dai Lake Park.

Apart from food fairs offering Xiao County summer mutton banquet enrolled in Anhui provincial ICH list, the county promises visitors a visible, enjoyable and purchasable touring experience.

In the past week, traditional local handicrafts including paper-flipping flowers, embroidery works and paper art works have attracted a great number of locals and tourists to linger.

In the following days until August 4, the Fuyang Cultural Festival is expected to attract more visitors to tour the county where a 2.4-billion-yuan annual white goat output value makes it one of Anhui's top 10 animal husbandry counties.

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Known as the "king of mushrooms," morel mushrooms are of high economic value. However, traditional cultivation approach of continuous cropping has long posed a challenge, disrupting soil ecology and causing significant yield declines, thereby constraining the sustainable development of the local morel mushroom industry.

To address this challenge, the cooperative has strengthened collaboration among universities, research institutions and industry partners. With technical support from experts at Qingdao Agricultural University (QAU), agricultural technological personnel and local agricultural authorities, it has introduced an innovative crop rotation system that pairs morel mushrooms with radishes, corn and shepherd's purse.

The model has helped improve soil quality, suppress harmful fungi and overcome the continuous-cropping problem, enabling two harvests a year from the same plot while ensuring stable, high yields of morel mushrooms for four consecutive years.

Assessment conducted by the QAU shows that the base produces more than 1,250 kilograms of morel mushrooms per mu (about 0.067 hectares), meeting the benchmark for high yields. The mushrooms generate an average net income of around 40,000 yuan per mu, far exceeding income earned from conventional grain crops.

The Shizhong District has established an integrated support system that provides farmers with mushroom spawn, technical guidance and producer-consumer match-making services, helping create local jobs, raise rural incomes and strengthen collective economies in the village.

Leveraging diversified online and offline sales channels and a complete cold-chain logistics network, local producers have expanded market access and increased the value of their products.

Empowered by technologies and innovative cultivation practices, Shizhong District has charted a path toward green, efficient and sustainable agricultural development, providing a model for the transformation and upgrading of the edible mushroom industry. 

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At the launching ceremony of the 3TREES Quality Homes Technology Experience Center, Hong Jie, Chairman and CEO of 3TREES, and Guinness World Records Adjudicator Luo Qiong jointly unveiled the commemorative plaque. Nearly a thousand attendees, including representatives from all walks of life, business partners and staff, participated in the ceremony.

The experience center aims to build a one-stop delivery system for future quality homes, better satisfy people's yearning for a better life, steer the industry toward coordinated progress of product quality and services, and advance high-quality industrial development.

Transformed from an over-20-year-old industrial workshop, the venue is renovated with eco-friendly materials developed by 3TREES. While retaining the historical marks of the industrial age, innovative materials and intelligent construction techniques inject modern vitality into the entire space.

Designed by the world's top design institutions and experts, the center is positioned as an international, industrial-style one-stop super exhibition hall. It integrates brand display, cultural inheritance and immersive scenario experience, and adopts scenario-based, digital and humanized design, comprehensively presenting full-scenario solutions covering 3TREES' retail, engineering, industrial coatings, intelligent construction, traditional lacquer and better living sectors.

The renovation retains the original main structural frame of the workshop, serving as solid evidence of 3TREES' stable product quality and reliable on-site delivery capability.

Open to upstream and downstream industry players, the center acts as a platform to convey 3TREES' culture and strength, and facilitates supply-demand matching, joint technological innovation and resource exchange.

It also embodies 3TREES' social commitments, including developing green building materials, supporting urban renewal, and accelerating domestic substitution of high-end industrial coatings.

The renewed workshop leads the industry in three dimensions -- scale, scene construction and industrial chain integration, creating a replicable and promotable model for the aging factory renovation. It represents an exemplary exploratory practice integrating urban renewal and industrial tourism.

Earning the Guinness World Record for the world's largest coatings showroom demonstrates that Chinese coatings brands are stepping onto the global stage with broader international vision and stronger cultural confidence, showcasing an innovative integrated model combining green intelligent manufacturing and spatial aesthetics to the whole world. 

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Co-hosted by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, Russia's Ministry of Culture, and the Government of Russia's Amur Oblast, this year's fair adopts a "two countries, four provinces and regions, six cities" format. On the Chinese side, the main venue is located in Heihe, Heilongjiang, with sub-venues established in the province's Jiamusi and Mudanjiang.

Bordering Russia's Khabarovsk, the city of Jiamusi has continued to leverage its geographical advantages to deepen China-Russia cultural and tourism cooperation. A total of 19 events will be held at the Jiamusi sub-venue during the fair.

Coinciding with the opening of the Jiamusi sub-venue, Chinese and Russian artists jointly performed at a gala show themed on China-Russia friendship and culture exchanges at a theatre in Jiamusi, blending the intangible culture heritage of the Hezhe ethnic group with Russian songs and dances, while the Peking Opera met with folk melodies from Russia's Far East.

Representatives from Khabarovsk promoted the region's featured tourism resources, local customs and natural landscapes at the event, further promoting cultural and tourism exchanges and mutual learning between the two sides.

From July to September, Jiamusi will host a series of China-Russia cultural exchange activities across the city, including tourism and culture promotion events, intangible cultural heritage and creative markets, food festivals, artistic performances, and film and television programs broadcasting.

Some tourism activities featuring youth study tours, wetland sightseeing and visits to historical sites will also be provided.

Through these activities, Jiamusi aims to build an internationally influential platform for China-Russia cultural and tourism exchanges, create new cultural tourism consumption scenarios, strengthen its role as a hub for border tourism in Heilongjiang, and contribute to the province's efforts to build a new gateway for opening-up to the north.

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Integrating Sushen Culture, one of the earliest fishing and hunting civilizations in northeast China, border landscapes, red cultural heritage, the epic of pioneers, industrial and mining heritage and vibrant cultural and tourism elements, the event featured a spectacular performance for the audience, highlighting its endowment in culture and tourism.

Xu Peng, vice chairman of the World Tourism Alliance, said in his speech that as a globally significant tourist destination and source of tourists, China is currently promoting cross-border tourism development with unprecedented efforts.

"In recent years, Heilongjiang has been committed to promoting the high-quality development of its cultural and tourism industries. It has sped up the construction of a world-class ice-and-snow tourism destination and summer retreats, accelerating the transformation of cold-climate resources into a thriving economy."

As the host city of this year's tourism industry development conference, Jixi has explored a distinctive new path for hosting the conference by leveraging its strengths as "China's graphite capital and an ecological tourism city".

The city has developed an all-round tourism map by tapping its diverse resources, upgraded visitor experiences with digital technologies, and expanded the source of tourists market through consumer-friendly measures and greater openness.

During the tourism industry development conference, a series of activities was held, including a provincial cultural and tourism industry promotion conference, the national travel agency promotion conference, signing ceremonies for key culture and tourism investment projects, and field visits showcasing the province's cultural and tourism industry development.

These activities brought together industry experts, cultural and tourism enterprises, and business representatives to jointly discuss pathways for industrial upgrading, explore new opportunities for cultural and tourism development, and share successful models for cultural and tourism transformation.

Capitalizing on its unique resource endowments, such as forests, wetlands and border rivers, Heilongjiang has also launched a "100-day campaign" for summer tourism, rolling out ten high-quality themed travel routes, and fostering a province-wide cultural and tourism consumption ecosystem.

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The city has established a comprehensive and dynamic service system to improve the investment environment through tailored, full-lifecycle support for foreign-funded enterprises.

The municipal commerce bureau conducts regular monitoring and analysis of foreign-invested enterprises to keep track of their business performance. Leveraging Shandong Province's service platform for stabilizing foreign trade and investment, the city ensures that issues encountered by foreign businesses can get prompt responses and effective settlement.

Weihai has established a multi-department collaborative regulatory and service mechanism covering the entire lifecycle of foreign-invested enterprises, providing coordinated support from business registration and information updates to foreign exchange transactions and daily operations.

The city has introduced a series of reforms in government administrative services for foreign businesses and talents working here, further improving the efficiency and quality of dealing with related issues, making it rank among China's top 10 cities in terms of the attractiveness index for international talents.

In 2025, Weihai took the lead in piloting a one-stop service window for foreigners working in the city by combining five procedures, namely work permits for foreigners, residence permits, social insurance registration, professional title evaluation, and registration for electronic social security cards.

To facilitate access to government services, the city issued a trilingual service package in Chinese, English and Korean on policies for foreigners working in China, providing comprehensive guidance on application scenarios, policy requirements, procedures and frequently asked questions. Government service centers also offer consultation services in English and Korean, along with end-to-end assistance throughout the application process.

As a frontier gateway for China's opening-up, Weihai's port ranks 1st among coastal ports in Shandong Province in customs clearance efficiency, driven by accelerated smart-port development.

The city has advanced the construction of smart ports while continuously expanding the coverage of the international trade "single window" to logistics, financial services and other sectors.

It has also continued to innovate its regulatory measures and introduced a non-intrusive inspection model integrating pre-arrival scanning, AI-assisted image inspection and risk-based control, and a smart telecommunications-based quarantine system that has reduced vessel quarantine time by 80 percent.

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As part of a series of events of the "Liangzhu and the World" program, the dialogue attracted over 100 participants from China and Uzbekistan gathering at the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City in Hangzhou, discussing topics including heritage values, conservation and management, and approaches to revitalizing cultural heritages. 

First discovered in 1936 in the lower reaches of China's longest river, the Yangtze River, the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019. The historic town of Samarkand, considered as a crossroad of cultures along the ancient Silk Road, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.

The dialogue not only provided a high-level platform for exchanges between the two cities, but also marked the first time that the "Liangzhu and the World" program has partnered with an Asian world heritage site.

During the dialogue, participants discussed topics focusing on heritage revitalization and mutual learning among civilizations of Silk Road cities, consolidation of China-Uzbekistan cooperation in archaeological research, earthen-site conservation, digital technologies and the integration of culture and tourism, offering an Asian model for coordinated world heritage conservation and dialogue among civilizations.

Ahead of the dialogue, the Uzbek delegation visited the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City and a world heritage monitoring center, where they explored Liangzhu's integrated approach to heritage conservation and public engagement with the help of digital technologies, including AI-powered smart glasses.

Farhod Nishonov, deputy mayor of Samarkand, spoke highly of Liangzhu's systematic conservation model, saying it offers valuable experience for the management of Samarkand. He said Samarkand would draw on Liangzhu's practices and, leveraging the sister-city relationship with Hangzhou, promote joint exhibitions, two-way cultural and tourism exchanges, and youth exchange programs.

"This is the fifth year since the inauguration of the 'Liangzhu and the World' program. We hope not only to share Liangzhu's experience in heritage conservation but also to learn from Central Asian cities in heritage operation and management, bringing the people of our two countries closer through these two civilization landmarks," said Yang Xiaoping, deputy director of the Management Committee of the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City.

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For the city, capital of Heilongjiang Province, the event that has been held for 24 consecutive years is a core component of its "enchanting summer in Harbin"-themed cultural tourism campaign.

Dedicated to showcasing urban landscapes, boosting summer consumption and deepening cultural exchanges between Chinese and foreign friends, this year's festival features eight functional zones to accommodate visitors of all ages.

Specifically, the eight zones include ones for beverage and cuisine, performances, creative cultural products, Chinese-style night tours, ice and snow activities, camping, contests and entertainment.

Compared with past sessions, this year's Harbin International Beer Festival, which will last until late August, boasts broader venues and is more interesting.

For instance, five beer stands, 11 beer gardens, and scattered beer exchanges are rolled out this year to offer citizens and visitors a trendy beer culture experience.

What's more, traditional Chinese lantern fairs, market fairs for creative local cultural products, floral float parades, interactive activities, campgrounds, sports fields and a cute pet amusement zone are also available for the public to experience the summer fun in Harbin.

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