From Changbai Mountain to the Alps, the spring snow across the longitude and latitude distant; From the shores of Lake Chagan to Lake Geneva, spring tides embrace each other with vitality. On April 4, "Hello! The Jilin Province Culture and Tourism Promotion Conference was held in Bern, the capital of Switzerland. This event aims to rely on the unique advantages of both sides in the same world skiing latitude zone, with "ice and snow + intangible cultural heritage culture" as the "stepping stone", to build a bridge of cultural tourism exchange and cooperation across national borders.
At the event, Jilin promoted cultural tourism resources. The pure and beautiful ecological environment, unique snow and ice resources, and profound historical and cultural heritage made Swiss friends yearning for it, and the wonderful artistic performances made the audience intoxicated. In addition, the site also set up the "Warm meet, wonderful Jilin" theme tourism photography exhibition and intangible cultural heritage project exhibition area. The exquisite photographic works show the beautiful scenery of Jilin in four seasons, from the wonders of rime in winter to the sea of forest flowers in summer, attracting many visitors to stop and enjoy. The intangible cultural heritage project exhibition area showed Jilin's traditional handicrafts such as paper cutting, rope weaving, fish skin painting, etc. The inheritors of the Chinese intangible cultural heritage project explained the knowledge of four seasons of health care to the guests and demonstrated traditional Chinese medicine treatment techniques, allowing Swiss friends to feel the unique charm of Jilin intangible cultural heritage at close range. Many people also participated in the experience themselves and were amazed at the traditional Chinese skills.
This event not only enhanced the Swiss friends' cognition and yearning for cultural tourism in Jilin, but also built a platform for exchanges and cooperation between cultural tourism enterprises of the two countries, and injected new vitality into the cultural tourism exchanges and cooperation between China and Switzerland. Many Swiss cultural tourism enterprises expressed their hope to cooperate with Jilin to jointly develop tourism products and expand the tourism market.
During their stay in Switzerland, the Jilin Provincial delegation also visited the Chinese Tourism Office in Zurich and held talks with the representative office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in Switzerland, introducing in detail the cultural protection and inheritance of Jilin Province, and conducting in-depth discussions on further strengthening cooperation and better serving the high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry of the two places. Swiss Chinese Tourism Federation Chinese Culture Promotion Association and Jilin Provincial Tourism Association signed an agreement, the two sides will focus on the mutual transport of tourists to establish a close cooperative relationship.