- 9th Dunhuang Tour-Silk Road International Tourism Festival to commence from July 30
BEIJING, China – Vice Governor of Gansu Province, Ms He Wei has said that the 4th Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo and 9th Dunhuang Tour-Silk Road International Tourism Festival would commence at the Great Hall of the Peoples from July 30.
Ms He Wei told a press conference here that the expo and festival work as a broad platform for expanding people-to-people exchanges along the Silk Road and it inject cultural tourism into poverty eradication effort for benefits of the people.
The festival will be held in Dunhuang, Gansu, China for one month from July 30 to September 5, 2019, he added.
The expo and festival will be hosted by Gansu provincial government, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the state administration of press, publication, radio, film and television and the China Council for the promotion of international trade.
She said theme of expo and festival is to facilitate Silk Road boom and poverty alleviation via cultural tourism. She mentioned that the Silk Road (Dunhuang) international Culture expo has been successfully held three times as the only comprehensive international expo in China with the Theme of “Belt and Road” cultural exchange.
The Expo and Festival has become an important platform for implementing the initiative, a bridge and link to promote cultural exchanges, mutual learning, opening up and cooperation among countries along the Silk Road, she added.
The event will attend senior officials of cultural tourism authorities of countries along the belt and road and heads of international organization such as UNESCO, the world Tourism organization, the world tourism alliance, the World Bank and the Pacific Asia Travel Association.
