April 18 Yangzhou is one of the first 24 famous historical and cultural cities in the State Council and the first outstanding tourist city in China. /kloc-On the afternoon of 0/8, Shen Yu, vice mayor of Yangzhou, told investors and travel agencies at home and abroad at the "Fireworks March" tourism investment promotion conference that Yangzhou should become a well-known tourist city at home and abroad with equal emphasis on sightseeing, leisure and holiday tourism.

The history of more than 2,500 years of building a city has accumulated rich cultural heritage for Yangzhou, leaving a beautiful natural ecology. Shen Yu said that exquisite Yangzhou cuisine, beautiful Yangzhou gardens, unique Yangzhou crafts, famous eight eccentrics of Yangzhou and exquisite Yangzhou "three knives" skills are all world-renowned unique tourism resources. From ancient times to the present, Yangzhou has always been a place for literati, bearing the "Yangzhou dream" of many people.

Talking about the past and the present, Yangzhou has the reputation of "seeing the present from the past" in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is worth noting that when Yangzhou officials "marketed" the ancient city to international people, they no longer stuck to the traditional scenic spots such as Slender West Lake, Ge Yuan and Heyuan. They told the outside world that they profoundly expounded the characteristic connotation of Yangzhou from Longqiuzhuang culture, canal culture and Confucian culture to Chinese studies, national operas, national music and Chinese paintings, and made great contributions to the utilization of world cultural heritage and the creation of tourist towns.

Yangzhou seized the opportunity of tourism development, adhered to the development concept of "city is tourism", positioned tourism as a permanent basic industry, and comprehensively strengthened the structural reform of tourism supply side. Since last year, Yangzhou has issued the "No.3 Document" to build a tourist-friendly city. This red-headed document of Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, compiled as document No.3, is another document No.3 issued in the name of Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government focusing on serving tourists after document No.2 1 serves people's livelihood and enterprises. This shows the importance of tourism in this city. On the morning of the same day, Xie Zhengyi, secretary of the Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee, said at the opening ceremony of this year's "Fireworks March" International Economic and Trade Tourism Festival in Yangzhou, "We will fully implement Document No.3 for serving tourists, so that tourists can come to Yangzhou not only in March, but also all year round." 、

Nowadays, the world has entered the "tourism era", and the tourism demand is exploding, and the tourism economy is gradually becoming one of the pillar industries of the national economy. Shen Yu said that Yangzhou will unswervingly implement the global, integrated, intelligent and international tourism development strategy, take the development of tourism as the top priority, further expand the tourism development framework, introduce major tourism projects, build major tourism brands and promote the great development of tourism. "And this requires not only Yangzhou's own efforts, but also the participation and support of external resources and external forces. We sincerely hope that investors and travel agencies at home and abroad will participate in the tide of Yangzhou tourism development and jointly paint a new picture of Yangzhou in people's minds. "

Axel de Beaumont, director of the Tourism Bureau of Orleans, France, told reporters, "Like Yangzhou, Orleans is also a tourist city. We look forward to more cooperation projects between the two sides to promote common development. " At the same time, Orleans and Yangzhou have strengthened cooperation in tourism standardization, especially in urban tourism volunteer service standards, urban professional talent evaluation system, historical and cultural heritage protection and development system, urban central park construction and management system, and world famous tourist city construction standard system.

At the tourism investment promotion meeting that day, Zhang Guilian, director of Yangzhou Tourism Bureau, made a theme promotion entitled "Work together to create Yangzhou tourism that people all over the world yearn for", and 18 tourism projects were signed on the spot, making rural leisure tourism and new tourism projects a hot spot for Chinese and foreign businessmen to invest. In addition, with Yangzhou's efforts to create theme tourism festivals such as "Yangzhou Summer", the formats of new tourism products are more abundant, and festivals such as music festivals, boat races, self-made tourism dramas, marathons and guzheng competitions are also held in Yangzhou, greatly enriching Yangzhou's tourism products. The content comes from People's Daily Online.