Huai'an, Jiangsu was selected as "World Capital of Food"

　　China News Service, Nanjing, November 9th (Xu Shanshan) UNESCO announced on the 8th that Huai'an, Jiangsu has been selected as the "Global Creative City Network-Food Capital", following Chengdu in Sichuan, Shunde in Guangdong, Macau, and Yangzhou in Jiangsu. The fifth selected city in China.

So far, the "Huai" and "Yang" of Huaiyang cuisine have joined the ranks of the "Food Capital of the World".

　　Huai'an is one of the main birthplaces and inheritance places of Huaiyang cuisine.

In 2017, Huai'an initiated the work of applying for UNESCO's "Global Creative Cities Network-Food Capital".

　　Huai'an has a profound food culture, with high-quality and rich ingredients such as hairy crabs, gorgon, pucai and so on.

Statistics show that there are more than 1,300 kinds of classic Huaiyang dishes in Huai'an, and 298 dishes have been selected into the Jiangsu Provincial Intangible Heritage List.

As of the end of 2020, Huai'an has more than 40,000 restaurants of various types, employing more than 250,000 people, and catering annual sales of 21 billion yuan.

There are 10 colleges and universities in the city that offer cooking majors, which have trained more than 100,000 middle and senior chefs. There are currently 120 national “cooking masters”.

　　Huaiyang cuisine, as one of the four major cuisines in China, has long been a household name in China.

In 2017, Jiangsu Yangzhou, which also belongs to the Huaiyang cuisine area, was selected as the "World Gourmet Capital". The selection of Huai'an means that Jiangsu Shuangcheng on the "tip of the tongue" will further enter the world with the "Huaiyang flavor".

　　As one of the eight major plans of the "Overseas Chinese Project", the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council has launched the "Chinese Food Prosperity Plan" with a view to enhancing and innovating the level and level of the overseas Chinese food industry, using the influence of Chinese food culture to promote Chinese food culture, and to enhance China's peace Friendly relations among countries in the world have developed.

In 2016, the first "Overseas Chinese Food Prosperity Project for Overseas Chinese" settled in Yangzhou University, and Huaiyang Cuisine became the "vanguard" of the "Chinese Food Prosperity Plan".

　　Xu Zhihao, deputy director of the Huai’an Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that after being ranked as the “Gourmet Capital of the World”, Huai’an will better inherit and promote the Huaiyang cuisine culture on a global scale, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the Huaiyang cuisine industry to a distinctive and internationalized industry. And deeply dig into the food elements of literature, film and television and other works, and promote the closer and in-depth integration of food and tourism, culture and creativity.

　　"Huaiyang cuisine is a gift from China to the world." Yu Xuerong, president of Jiangsu Catering Association, believes that Huaiyang cuisine focuses on freshness, peaceful taste, and healthy nutrition.

China's Yangzhou and Huai'an are selected as the "World Food Capitals", which can better promote the Huaiyang food culture and allow more diners to understand and taste Huaiyang cuisine.

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