The Jinjiang Hall of Chengdu Jinjiang Hotel is full of friends.With the big screen showing the Zigong Lantern Festival and the city image propaganda film of Zigong City, pictures show the charm of Zigong lanterns, and the videos reproduce the new style of the millennium salt city, bringing a shocking visual feast to the domestic and foreign journalists.He Shuping,the municipal party secretary and mayor of the Zigong sent out invitations to friends all over the world to watch the lanterns, and sincerely invite guests from all over the world to appreciate the "First Lantern in the world"! As the main production company of the 24th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival, our company was invited to participate in this conference.
Mr.He said that Zigong is an old industrial city with a glorious history.In 1939, the city was established because of salt.It has unique cultural and tourist resources, such as hundreds of millions of years of dinosaur relics, two thousand years of well salt production history, and nearly a thousand years of lantern culture, which give this city its unique charm. Zigong enjoys the reputation of a thousand-year salt capital, the hometown of dinosaurs, the Chinese lantern city, and a hometown of food. It is a world geological park, a national historical and cultural city, an excellent tourist city in China, and a national garden city.Zigong lanterns have a long history dating back to the Tang Dynasty. In 1964, the Zigong Municipal People's Government held the first Spring Festival Lantern Festival, which developed the traditional folk custom of admiring lanterns in the New Year into a cultural event with strong regional characteristics. So far, 7 Spring Festival Lantern Festivals and 23 International Dinosaur Lantern Festivals have been held locally, and the annual lantern festival receives more than 2 million tourists. So far, Zigong lanterns have been exhibited in more than 500 large and medium-sized cities in more than 60 countries and regions in the world, attracting more than 400 million domestic and foreign audiences, and are known as "the world's first light."
This year's Zigong Lantern Festival was approved by the provincial government, with the theme of "Splendid China•Ode to Joy", co-sponsored by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and the People's Government of Zigong City.This year, we have innovated the contracting model and co-hosted with Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Group. Using big creativity, freehand brushwork, big production, and big scene methods, more than 130 sets of large and medium-sized lanterns in the park and hundreds of lighting works in the main urban area are used to showcase the splendid The Chinese civilization and the new style and appearance of the new era,and demonstrate the urban charm of Zigong, which is "Castle Peak, green water, tall buildings, colored lights"In addition to the Zigong, Zigong lanterns will also be illuminated in 9 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an, and Kunming at the same time. At that time, the "Ten Cities Linkage" Zigong Lantern Festival will provide the most gorgeous, brightest and most shocking feast of lanterns for domestic and foreign audiences.At present, all preparations for this year's Lantern Festival are ready. And the Lantern Festival will be held in Zigong Lantern Park from February 2 to mid-March, 2018. Every night during the Lantern Festival, lanterns in garden , river and street complement each other. The whole city of Zigong will become a sea of "lanterns", and the "Chinese Lantern City" will show its brilliance to the world.
Chinese and foreign reporters and new media live video broadcasts focus on the publishing station.After Lu Feng, deputy inspector of the Provincial Department of Culture introduced the situation of Sichuan's cultural industry dominated by Zigong Lantern, reporters rushed to ask questions of interest such as the highlights of the Zigong Lantern Festival.Tang Jie,deputy publisher,member of municipal committee，director of Publicity Department and officials of Administration for Culture and Radio and TV and News and Publishing,municipal public security bureau and OCT West Investment Co., Ltd respectively answered questions from reporters.According to reports, the Zigong Lantern Festival has established a smart information system that integrates services such as viewing lanterns, accommodation, parking, shopping, entertainment and transportation.Visitors can also participate in and appreciate cultural tourism activities such as the 2nd Rongxian Giant Buddha Cultural Lantern Festival, the 1st Zigong International Light Show, the 1st Chinese Folk Lantern Boutique Exhibition, and the Works Exhibition of Masters of Fine Brushwork in Sichuan Province.At the same time, relying on the Lantern Festival , the 4th Southern Sichuan Famous, Excellent, Special and New Commodities Fair, the 2018 Sichuan•Zigong Spring Festival Shopping Month, the 8th "Hand in Hand with Lantern City • Longju Salt City" Investment Promotion Conference, and the 9th Salt Gang will also be held. 13 major economic, trade, cultural and sports activities such as the Food Culture Festival.At the same time, relying on the Lantern Festival, Zigong will also hold 13 major economic and trade cultural and sports activities such as the 4th Southern Sichuan Famous, Excellent, Special and New Commodities Fair, the 2018 Sichuan•Zigong Spring Festival Shopping Month, the 8th "Hand in Hand with Lantern City • Long Ju Yan Du" Investment Promotion Conference, and the 9th Salt Food Culture Festival...
The heads of the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Development Committee and the Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, officials from the consulates of the Czech Republic, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand in Chengdu, and representatives of 7 foreign business associations including Malaysia and Singapore were invited to attend.People's Daily, China News Service, Xinhua News Agency, China Central Television, China National Radio, Economic Daily, People's Daily, China Economic Net, China Net, International Online, Sichuan Daily, Sichuan Radio and Television, Sichuan News, Tencent Dacheng, West China Journalists from Metropolis Daily, Sichuan Online, Chengdu Daily, Chengdu Radio and Television Station, Chengdu Commercial Daily, Phoenix Network, Hong Kong Satellite TV, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong Bauhinia Magazine and other news media were invited to interview.