(On the afternoon of June 22, Xu Zhongjian, secretary of the CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee, held a forum with a delegation of entrepreneurs and experts from Hainan International Culture & Creativity Week. Photo / Yang Zhiwei)
On the afternoon of June 22, Xu Zhongjian, secretary of the CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee, held a forum with a delegation of entrepreneurs and experts from Hainan International Culture & Creativity Week to conduct an in-depth exchange and make a contact with each other on jointly accelerating the transformation and upgrading of Huaihua cultural tourism industry. Municipal leaders Li Weilin, Zou Xingwang, Zhou Zhongyan and Hu Chen attended the forum.
At the meeting, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Broadcasting and Sports presented the status quo of the development of cultural tourism industry in Huaihua. Wang Xu, founder of Hainan International Culture & Creativity Week, deputy secretary-general of Institute of Cultural Creativity of Tsinghua University and co-founder of Boao Institute for Culture and Creativity, Luo Qingqiu, founder of Wukong Research Institute, Xia Yuqing, convener of Suji Yingzao Society and founder of StrayBirds Homestay, Han Yongkun, consultant of Rongjiang Cultural Tourism in Guizhou and founder of Qingyulan Company, Wang Wanyu, founder of Orion Company, Chen Changchun, founder of Yinju Xiangli Homestay, Xie Chi, chairman of Haohaoshenghuo Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., Liu Zheng, manager of Spartan Race Brand, and Wang Qiu’an, founder of Anzhe Architecture, made a speech one after another. It is believed that Huaihua boasts a rich historical and cultural deposits, obvious advantages in tourism resources, especially unique in many aspects, and enjoy great potential and space for the development of cultural tourism. Attendees put forward constructive suggestions on the development of Huaihua’s cultural tourism industry, saying that they would work to make greater efforts to the inspection and connection, seek more cooperation projects, and jointly promote the high-quality development of Huaihua’s cultural tourism industry.
On behalf of the CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee and Huaihua Municipal Government, Xu Zhongjian thanked the delegation of entrepreneurs and experts from Hainan International Culture & Creativity Week for their solicitude and support for the development of cultural tourism industry in Huaihua. Xu said that Huaihua is implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on tourism, seizing the opportunity to host the Fifth Hunan Tourism Development Conference, and speeding up the development of the cultural tourism industry. We sincerely hope to accelerate the high-quality development of the Huaihua’s cultural tourism industry through the Hainan International Culture & Creativity Week platform, and sincerely invite entrepreneurs and experts to work towards the same goal with Huaihua to achieve more project cooperation and make new greater breakthroughs in the transformation, upgrading and development of the cultural tourism industry in Huaihua. Huaihua will set up a special agency to boost the guarantee of essential factors and provide the best service.
Principal responsible comrades of Chenxi, Xupu, Xinhuang, Zhijiang, Hecheng, Zhongfang, Hongjiang City, Hongjiang District and the relevant units directly under the municipality were present in the forum.
（Translated by Yang Sigui）