On April 22, the 2nd China (Wuhan) Cultural and Tourism Expo opened in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Li Shulei, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department, attended the opening ceremony and announced the opening.

With the theme of “Beautiful China, Better Life”, the Expo highlights culture shaping tourism, tourism showing culture, highlighting innovation-driven, science and technology-enabled, highlighting openness and cooperation, and building and sharing, and focuses on showcasing new modes, new forms and new scenarios for the integrated development of culture and tourism on the new journey of the construction of a strong nation and the rejuvenation of the nation. The expo set up a main venue, six branch venues, a cloud trading exhibition platform and a series of cultural and tourism product trade fairs, the exhibition covers a total area of 80,000 square meters, attracting a total of more than 2,000 domestic and foreign cultural and tourism exhibitors, France, Germany, South Korea, Portugal, Serbia, Thailand, the United States and other 15 countries, cultural and tourism authorities and international tourism organizations to participate in the exhibition. The Expo set up the “Beautiful China Pavilion”, integrating the representative elements of national parks and national cultural parks, showing the beauty of China's ecology and the beauty of Chinese humanity. The theme pavilions and the “Meet in Hubei Pavilion” and other exhibition areas displayed the colorful natural and humanistic sceneries of different parts of the country, and demonstrated Hubei's profound historical and cultural heritage as well as the achievements of culture, tourism and science and technology innovations. World River Civilization Pavilion, international tourism and shopping exhibition area shows the colorful world of colorful civilizations and key cultural and tourism resources. The Expo also organized a series of cultural activities, art auctions, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and sales and network live with goods and other activities, attracting domestic and foreign enterprises and organizations and the general public to actively participate.