On May 14th, president Xi Jinping hosted the forum of High Quality Follow-up Work of South-to-North Water Diversion Project in Nanyang City of Henan Province.To be fully prepared for the forum, on the afternoon of May 13th, the president went to see the water conservancy and new village for emigrants who had moved for the project, so he could learn the management and processing condition of the project construction for the middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project as well as the settlement of emigrants who originally lived in or near today’s reservoir. On May 12th, he also conducted a research of Nanyang City’s economic and social development.
Important speeches given by the general secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection was well-received by cultural and tourism circles. Listeners were all encouraged by his arrival. Bearing his instructions in mind, their next step was to carry out their respomsibilities and be innovative, to inherite and develop, to explore and make the most of local advantage resource and to make a plan of the coordinated development of industries, science and culture, so a new chapter of Henan Province can be written.
On May 12th, during Xi Jinping’s research of the economy and society of the Nanyang City, he came to Yishengci (literally memorial temple to medical sage) first. This is a momerial place whose origin was a cemetery for Zhang Zhongjing who was a medical sage in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220AD). President Xi visited here to have a better understanding of Zhang Zhongjing’s life, the contribution he made to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the effect of TCM in the provention and treatment of the COVID-19 and the inheritance and innovation of TCM.
The visit of the general secretery Xi Jinping also encouraged local officals and residents. His comment on time-honored TCM inspired local cultural and tourism practitioners.
Liu Haiyan, the curator of Nanyang Zhang Zhongjing Museum, introduced that traditional Chinese medicine has been an important carrier and a representative of outstanding Chinese culture. When Zhang Zhongjing was a government official, he kept abreast of public feeling, took extra attention to all kinds of illness and searched for various prescriptions invented by ordinary people. Due to a spike of typhoid fever, he decided to study the cause and treatment of the illness and eventually wrote Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases which included 16 volums, but only Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of Golden Chamber were passed on, both of which were adapted by Wang Shuhe, a famous doctor in Jin Dynasty.
“The general secterary Xi Jinping came to Yishengci first for inspection and research. He gave important instructions for work relating to traditional Chinese Medicine and spoke highly of contribution made by the medical sage--Zhang Zhongjing in medicine science”, said by Liu Haiyan, “TCM and other outstanding traditional culture are precious treasures of Chinese culture. I hope everyone can contribute to the protection, development and spread of Chinese culture and let it be known in the world.”
“General secretary Xi Jinping’s inspection in Henan Province represents the attention he attaches to the economic and social development of Henan Province, his earnest care for the water source of South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the encouragement for the inheritance and development of TCM culture and inspiretion to culture and tourism in Nanyang City”, said Zheng Wenming,the director and the seceretery of leading party members’ group of Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism in Nanyang City,“we feel that we are inspired, taken care of as well as that the responsibility is heavy and mission is honorary. We will remember what general secretary Xi Jinping has told us. We will continue to explore and promote the unique innovation, values, beliefs and distinct features of outstanding Chinese culture. The spiritual asset of Chinese nation is the fundation of our tourism, so we will strive to make Nanyang cultural and tourism idustries with stronger ability and large scale.”
On May 12th, Xi Jinping arrived at Nanyang Rose Garden. During his visit, he listened to the brief of rose industry development and of income groth thanks to the rose industry, had a look at the garden by car and received greeting from tourists. According to Xi Jinping, because of the great potential of local characteristic industries, it’s important to explore and make the most of local advantage resource, spend more effort to protect local rose species of high quality and promote the integration of enterprises, research institutes and institutes of higher learning, so as to realize the coordinated development of industries, technology and culture.
10 colors, 2000 species and an annual production of 2.5 billion yuan... are all used to describe Chinese rose, the flower representing Nanyang City. Rose planting of Nanyang City started in Tang Dynasty, became famous in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty and still develops at current era. Now, it’s being called the “the town of Chinese rose in China”. Not only eco-project to enrich people has been benefiting from the rose industry, but also local tourism industry. Since the October, 2010 when the garden construction was complete, more than 3 million tourists had visited there.
As a matter of fact, flower economy has became a strong driving force of social and economic development of Henan Province. In the recent two years, with flower-seeing economy as dominance, landscape full of flowers as a feature and unique festivals as a lead, Luoyang City has been promoting the integration of the first, second and tertiary industries and has formed a gradual-complete industrial chain including sight-seeing, planting, processing and sale. Hu Dapeng, the director and the secretary of leading party number group of Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism of Luoyang City, said following steps of Luoyang City's culture and tourism system are to study and adhere to the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speeches, attach great importance to the coordinating development of industries, techology, and culture, support industrial integration and develope the integrated innovation between culture and tourism and technology, industry, ecological, exhibition, sports and agriculture and continuously extend industries, modes and business to new ones, so the attractiveness, competitiveness and influence of Luoyang can be improved constantly.
Wei Peishi, the director and the seceretary of the party leading group of Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism of Kaifeng City, said that Kaifeng is a city famous for it’s chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum book was written in as early as Song Dynasty. The next step for the city is to entend industrial chains, uplift the level of industries and promote the integrated and high-level development of agriculture, culture and tourism through “culture+”, “technology+” and “internet+”.
The Zouzhuang Village of Jiuchong Town is home to 750 people of 175 family. It originally situated near Nanyang City, the water source of Middle Route Project of South-North Water Diversion. On June, 2011, they moved to the current location because of the construction of water diversion program. On May 13th, Xi Jinping went to the Danjiang Green Fruits and Vegetables Base build with development fund for industries of migrant village. He observed the growing condition of kiwi fruits and asked about migration, employment and income growth. The president stressed that the government must do good subsequent work of asistance and migrant settlement, promote rural revitalization compresively and carry out coordinated development of farming, new business and works done by employees who are farmers previously and multiple measures should be taken to guarantee income growth and to be sure that those who moved due to the construction can lead a stable life with potential of development and affluence.
At present, infrasture system including schools, clinics, exercise parks, villager service halls and all kinds of other servicing departments is more and more complete. Those in rural area are also leading an increasingly better life.
Zhao Cheng, the director of Tourism and Development Center in Xichuan County, said that the general secretary Xi Jinping pays great attention to the project construction, management and migrant settlement of the South-North Water Diversion Program as well as cares from the bottom of his heart the development of migrant village and the life of migrants. As residents living here, we are deeply moved by his important speeches, so we’ll spend more effort to promote migrant spirit of building new homes by overcoming uneven landscape and starting new businesses by changing ideas. We will implement principles of rural revitalization and common prosperity by combining rural tourism and the development of migrant village.
In recent years, with the principle of culture leading, industrial integration, ecological priority, openness and cooperation and innovation driven force, the theme of protection and promotion of Yellow River culture, the main work of deepening the supply-side structural reform of culture and tourism industries and the leading factor of all-for-one tourism, Henan Province will speed up the cultural and tourism development structure of “one belt, one core, three mountains and five districts”(the structure includes Yellow River Culture Tourism Belt, tourism core district composed of Zhengzhou City, Kaifeng City and Luoyang City, natural ecological scenic areas and red tourism scenic areas composed of Taihang Mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Dabie Mountain, five districts composed of Heluo culture district, Yinshang culture tourism district, Yuandian culture tourism district, Yellow River Jinsanjiao tourism district and Danjiang River Wolong culture tourism district) and transform itself from a province boasting a large mount of cultural and tourism resource to an economically-strong province supported by cultural and tourism resource.