Learned from the Guangxi Tourism Bureau that in order to exhibit the special regimen culture, the Bama County in Guangxi will hold the first International Long Regimen Cultural Festival on 12TH November to 16th November.
The Bama County is located in the west north of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is one of the five famous longevous towns in the world. At present there are five international recognition longevous towns in the world. They are the Caucasian in Soviet Union, the Hansa in Pakistan, the Billban in Ecuador, the Nanjiang of Sin kiang in China and the Bama in Guangxi China.
This longevous cultural festival include the following theme activities: the opening ceremony, thousands of people drink the longevous soup together, the international proseminar on regimen tourism development, the lecture on regimen knowledge, the cate food festival and ect.
Like our city, Bama county of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is the world famous land of longevity, in the morning of Mar. 29, a delegation from the county CPC Committee and the government came to Rugao, inspecting development of long-life relate industries. City officials Chenhuiyu and Shaoxiaoquan warmly received the guests.
Secretary of the city politics and law commission Chenhuiyu made an introduction of the culture-based economic development of the city to the guests. He said: ¡°the city has successfully delivered the long-life culture festivals three times, through the cooperation with some mainstream media such as CCTV, China elders times, etc, a string of theme activities have been delivered, which greatly popularized the charm of longevity phenomenon in Rugao to the outside world. It¡¯s reported, during the 2006 year round festival, the city invited a total of 814 businessmen from home and abroad with 326 from overseas, signed a total 117 contracts with an investment of 21Byuan, which greatly stirred up the sound and fast economic and social development of the city.
Like our city, Bama county of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is the world famous land of longevity, the people of over 100 years old cover 0.03% to the total population. The guests indicated, they would actively absorb the successful experiences of Rugao city in hope of better stimulating the local economic development. |
