Hefei, September 9 (Reporter Zhang Jun) On September 21, the Ninth Chinese Farmers' Song Festival opened in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province.

Chuzhou is the birthplace of China's agricultural and rural reform, and the Chinese Farmers' Song Festival has been sung here for nine consecutive times. At the scene, with "song" as the medium and "agriculture" as the theme, the theme is distinct, the local atmosphere is strong, and the cultural charm is rich. Investors, travel agents, channel providers, cultural tourism enterprises, heads of self-driving tour operators and tourists from all over the country participated in the event.

The scene of the 9th China Farmers' Song Festival. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Chuzhou Municipal Party Committee.

Ding Guangqing, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Anhui Province, said in his speech that in recent years, the brand influence and city popularity of "Drunken Beauty Chuzhou Tinghao Chuzhou" are constantly increasing, and this event is conducive to better promoting Chuzhou and Anhui to key cultural tourism enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta, better promoting inter-regional exchanges and cooperation, and making greater contributions to the high-quality development of cultural tourism in Anhui.

Su Hong, Vice Mayor of Chuzhou Municipal People's Government, said that Chuzhou City will take this promotion conference as an opportunity to focus on the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism and high-quality development, and strive to build an industrial radiation hinterland, a high-quality agricultural product supply base, a health tourism destination and a gathering place to attract talents in the Yangtze River Delta.

During the event, Chuzhou also held the 2023 Nanjing Metropolitan Area Culture and Tourism Special Committee Work Conference and the High-quality Development Promotion Conference of Agricultural Cultural Tourism to promote agricultural cultural tourism resources and projects, release agricultural cultural tourism routes, and carry out channel docking.

At the same time, a self-driving tour with the theme of "driving in the field of hope" was launched in Chuzhou. All counties and municipalities in Chuzhou display cultural and tourism resources such as high-quality agricultural products, characteristic cultural and creative products, and intangible cultural heritage products. (End)