China News Service, Tokyo, February 27 (Reporter Zhu Chenxi) The "Dalian Week" series of activities co-sponsored by the Dalian Municipal People's Government, the China Tourism Office in Tokyo, and the China Cultural Center in Tokyo "Dalian City and Japan Cultural Tourism Industry Exchange" Cooperation Conference” was held grandly at the Chunsanso Hotel in Tokyo on the 26th.

  Luo Songtao, Minister Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, Ouyang An, Director of the China Tourism Office in Tokyo, Luo Yuquan, Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Tokyo, Wang Wenyong, Deputy Director of Dalian Culture and Tourism Bureau, Dalian Cultural Tourism Delegation, Dalian City (County) Nearly 200 people attended the event, including representatives from key cultural and tourism enterprises, as well as representatives from the Japanese culture, tourism and aviation industries.

Luo Songtao, Minister Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, delivered a speech.

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  Luo Songtao, Minister Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, pointed out in his speech that the leaders of China and Japan met in San Francisco, the United States, in November last year, reaffirming the positioning of bilateral relations to comprehensively promote strategic and mutually beneficial relations, and are committed to building a strategic partnership that meets the requirements of the new era. Constructive and stable Sino-Japanese relations.

Culture and tourism are important areas of cooperation between the two countries and an important channel for people-to-people connections.

It is hoped that this promotion event will be used as an opportunity to further expand exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in the field of culture and tourism.

Ouyang An, Director of the China Tourism Office in Tokyo, delivered a speech.

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  Ouyang An, director of the China Tourism Office in Tokyo, said in his speech that with the current international tourism market showing a good recovery trend, China has continued to relax various conditions for foreign tourists to travel to China and vigorously develop the Chinese inbound tourism market.

In this context, the China Tourism Office in Tokyo is willing to work together with friendly people from all walks of life in Japan, including people from the tourism, aviation, and media circles, to jointly promote the healthy and stable development of Sino-Japanese cultural tourism exchanges and cooperation and Sino-Japanese friendship.

Wang Wenyong, deputy director of Dalian Culture and Tourism Bureau, delivered a speech.

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  Wang Wenyong, deputy director of the Dalian Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, combined with Dalian's location and geographical advantages, gave everyone a comprehensive introduction to Dalian's rich cultural and tourism resources and Dalian's efforts to build an international coastal tourist destination that is livable and tourist-friendly. He warmly welcomed more Many Japanese friends come to Dalian for investment, business, tourism and vacation.

Event site.

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  Shinichi Chiba, representative of the Japan Travel Industry Association (JATA), said that Dalian has close cooperation and exchanges with Japan and has a profound historical tradition.

He hopes that this event will make the Japanese cultural and tourism industry focus on Dalian again, and is willing to work together with Japanese travel agencies to promote more Japanese people to visit and sightsee in Dalian.

  At the meeting, the organizers also used various forms such as promotional videos, cultural tourism promotion, intangible cultural performances, and exchange symposiums to focus on Dalian’s characteristic tourism products, high-quality tourism routes and projects, cultural and sports festival activity arrangements, policy support, In terms of cooperation and docking of specific cultural tourism projects, the cultural tourism resources of Dalian were comprehensively introduced to the Japanese cultural tourism industry, paving the way for China and Japan to promote exchanges in the cultural tourism industry, open up tourism group channels, and promote project cooperation.

  Representatives of the Japanese tourism industry at the scene said that through the all-round introduction and publicity of this event, they had re-understood and felt the unique cultural and tourism charm of Dalian.

They are willing to recommend Dalian to more Japanese people and look forward to sharing development opportunities with Dalian cultural and tourism units and groups to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

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