On October 25^th, China International Health Tourism Forum was held in the Haozhou City of Anhui Province. Zhang Xu, vice cultural and tourism minister, and Wang Cuifeng, vice governor of Anhui Province People’s Government, attended and delivered speeches.

    Zhang Xu said that people’s health was the basis of the progress of society and civilization, an important symbol of nations’ and China’s prosperity and a common pursuit of the masses. The CPC Central Committee, State Council and relating bureaus and departments attached great importance to the development of health tourism, which created a favorable environment of policy and public opinion. China had achieved strategic results in the fight against the pandemic and measures to prevent and control the pandemic had became regular moves. Against such background, the forum responded to people’s concern of their health and thusly implement “healthy China strategy”.

    Wang Cuifeng said that under the guidance of the general secretary Xi Jinping, the government and the CPC committee of the Anhui Province followed the tendency of the upgrade of cultural and tourism consumption and build bases for healthy tourism with complete industrial factors, industrial chains and public service. The next steps of Anhui People’s Government were to focus on the market hotspot; to keep an eye on demand guidance; to innovate supporting measures; to optimize products and service supply of the health tourism; to construct a more complete industrial system and to improve health development to the next level.

    The theme of the forum was “new demand for health and new development for tourism”. Attendees discussed several aspects, including strategies and methods in market expansion; the support for the sustainable development of the health tourism and new opportunities for health tourism, new ideas in the academic circle and new demand and products in the market against the backdrop of regular measures to fight against the pandemic. Health Tourism·Haozhou Initiative was established during the forum. A batch of high-quality products for health tourism was released by the health tourism conference, a brunch of the China Tourism Association.