As the hometown of tofu is in Huainan, and the tofu in Bagongshan in Huainan is well-known at home and abroad, the Huainan Municipal People's Government actively won the right to host the China Tofu Culture Festival at the beginning of 199 1, which was strongly supported by the Anhui Provincial People's Government. The former Ministry of Commerce decided to hold the second China Tofu Culture Festival at 19965438+. Later, the Huaihe River Basin suffered a flood disaster that was rare in history, so it was postponed to 1992. As the second China Tofu Culture Festival was very successful, it was approved by the former Ministry of Commerce and the provincial people's government.
Zhang Runxia, former vice governor of Huizhou City, announced at the closing ceremony of the second China Tofu Culture Festival that the China Tofu Culture Festival will be held in Huainan from September 15 every year.
Because the second China Tofu Culture Festival was held in Huainan for one year, but it was held in Taiwan Province Province at that time, there was a problem that the sessions of China Tofu Culture Festival on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were inconsistent. In order to solve this problem, 1993, the former Ministry of Commerce came forward to negotiate and decided to use the year number instead of the year number for the China Tofu Culture Festival held on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the future. Later, in order to show the continuity and venue of the Tofu Festival, the 14th China (Huainan) Tofu Culture Festival was held in 2002 with the consent of the organizer China Chamber of Commerce and the Anhui Provincial People's Government.
Since 1992, Huainan City has successfully held 13 China Tofu Culture Festival (1998, 1999 closed for two years due to the Asian financial crisis and domestic floods). During the festival, * * * received more than 20,000 Chinese and foreign guests, including foreign guests and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan 1000. Leaders from Tian Jiyun, Malaysia, Li Desheng, Hui Liangyu and other countries and provinces, thousands of leaders from municipal and provincial departments, hundreds of experts and scholars such as Niu and Hong Guangzhu, and dozens of cultural and economic delegations attended the festival. More than 200 Chinese and foreign journalists have visited Huainan successively. On May 29th, 1993, our city successfully held a press conference in the Great Hall of the People. Hong Xuezhi, Li, Wang, Chen and other leading comrades attended the meeting, and comrades delivered warm speeches. 1996 Huainan City has designed and issued 468,000 sets of "China Tofu Culture Festival Telephone Magnetic Card" by the National Telecommunications Bureau, which is the first national telephone magnetic card for local festivals. 1997 also distributed the beautifully printed 200 calling cards of China Tofu Culture Festival through Anhui Post and Telecommunications Bureau, which also had a good influence. China Tofu Culture Festival (three episodes), China Tofu Cookbook (three episodes), China Bean Products and Bagongshan Tofu were compiled by the organizing committee, which expanded the tofu culture to a deeper level.
China Tofu Culture Festival has arranged more than 60 large and medium-sized activities in six aspects: opening and closing ceremonies, international symposium on tofu culture, cooking contest of tofu dishes, economic and trade activities, cultural activities and sightseeing.
-The opening ceremony was grand and warm, attended by leaders of central provinces and cities, Chinese and foreign guests and hundreds of thousands of people. The opening ceremony was spectacular, rich in content and elegant in style, which fully demonstrated the ancient rhyme of Huaihe River, national culture and the great achievements of Huainan's modernization.
-Hundreds of schools of thought contend at the International Symposium on Tofu Culture. More than 300 experts and scholars at home and abroad participated in it, published more than 100 papers and compiled 6 sets of tofu culture papers. The scientific and technological achievements in some papers have been transformed into productive forces. In 2000, Huainan successfully developed and produced "Yiyi" brand instant tofu powder, a pure natural sugar-free convenient green food, which integrates soybean milk, bean brain and tofu, solved the problem of preservation and transportation of tofu, and created conditions for Huainan tofu to go global.
-"The First National Tofu Cooking Competition" was jointly sponsored by China Chamber of Commerce, China Cuisine Association and Huainan Municipal People's Government, with high specifications, strong authority, wide participation and great influence. It attracted 26 teams and 2 17 players from 6 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide. Famous chefs gathered to show their skills, fully demonstrating the latest cooking level of tofu dishes today. Tens of thousands of people visited and received extensive attention and praise from guests and society. It has become an activity with strong vitality and great development potential in the tofu festival.
-Economic and trade activities closely focus on attracting investment and expanding sales, focusing on product fairs, commodity fairs and economic and trade fairs. The product fair consists of more than ten kinds of fairs in the whole country, the whole province and Huainan City. Tens of thousands of products from nearly 1,000 enterprises in more than 20 provinces and cities (including Taiwan Province Province) participated in the exhibition, with rich products and active transactions. Jia Commodity Fair integrates exhibition, ordering, negotiation and trading, and arranges more than 30 activities every year. During the Tofu Culture Festival, * * * launched more than 400 investment projects and signed more than 200 projects. Foreign-funded groups from South Korea, the United States, Germany and other countries and regions have successively invested in Huai. The total economic and trade turnover of the Tofu Culture Festival reached 8 billion yuan, of which the contract amount was 6.4 billion yuan, and more than 4 billion yuan has been implemented, with considerable economic benefits.
-the conditions for holding festivals and the investment environment have been effectively improved. With the cultural festival as the driving force, Huainan has intensified the construction of a civilized city, building a new city stadium, city museum, Chen Dong Road overpass, radio and television building, electric power building and post and telecommunications building, widening the 206 national highway, building and maintaining dozens of urban roads, beautifying the city appearance, improving the city service function and improving the investment environment.
China Tofu Culture Festival fully embodies the purpose of "tofu as a medium, culture as a platform, and singing opera in economy, trade and tourism", and fully demonstrates Huainan's good economic foundation, good investment environment, stable and United political situation and great achievements in the construction of two civilizations. The holding of China Tofu Culture Festival has played a positive role in promoting national culture, developing Chinese cuisine, opening wider to the outside world, raising Huainan's popularity, making Huainan go global, letting the world know about Huainan, and promoting economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation between Huainan and domestic and foreign countries. China Tofu Culture Festival is moving towards the level of international business travel culture festival.
China culture is extensive and profound, and tofu culture has a long history. The rich accumulation of tofu culture needs us to develop and prosper. Huainan people, as the hometown of tofu, have the responsibility, obligation and ability to run the China Tofu Culture Festival continuously, and make greater contributions to promoting the national essence of tofu, developing Chinese cuisine and promoting human health.