On the evening of January 22, the 23th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival hosted by the Zigong Municipal People's Government and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture was grandly opened in Zigong Lantern Park.At 7 o'clock in the evening, Liu Yongxiang, the deputy secretary of the Zigong Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, announced: "The 23th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival lights up!" In an instant, more than 130 sets of large and medium-sized lanterns illuminated the Zigong Lantern Park.
It is reported that the theme of this lantern festival is "the colorful new silk road, the most dazzling Chinese style", with the image of China, global vision, Chinese stories, Chinese history and culture, and the ideas and minds of international expression as materials.The lantern groups in the park includes six sections ,with a total of 130 sets of lanterns,such as colorful new silk road, the most dazzling Chinese style, the beauty of Bashu, the trend of fashion light and shadow, the north-south lantern , and the auspicious Chinese New Year.In addition, the activities during the Lantern Festival are large in scale, large in quantity, and high in quality, all exceeding than previous years.For example, the "Rongxian Giant Buddha Theme Lantern Festival" will open on January 16, and more than 50 sets of large and medium-sized lanterns were exhibited.This lantern festival will last until mid-March.
About the development of the Zigong Lantern Festival, the Zigong Municipal Party Committee and Government plans: first,we should try our best to organize the lantern festival.We need continue to organize the lantern festival, form a normalized tourism industry, drive the lantern enterprises to go out, expand the lantern industry, and benefit the people of Zigong.In addition, the China Lantern World Park will be built to create a large-scale cultural tourism complex integrating creative design of lanterns, lantern exhibitions, research and development exchanges, lantern corporate headquarters, and leisure amusement. It will become the large-scale lantern cultural tourism project and the national 5A-level scenic spot of the world's only and unique feature. The main construction content includes lantern theme park, public cultural service, water park, five-star hotel, city park, and Zigong Cultural Center.This will be an upgraded version of Zigong Lantern Park, and will build a 5 square kilometer "lantern town" with this as the core and become a tourist destination for watching lanterns in China.
On January 10 this year, the Zigong Municipal Government released the Zigong Lantern Festival "Global Lantern Festival" action plan in Beijing:1.Successfully hold the 23th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival;2.Launch the "Zigong Lantern Festival Double Hundred Action" and hold at least 100 lantern festivals in 100 cities at home and abroad in the next 5 years, and promote the growth of Zigong Lantern Festival into a "Global Lantern Festival".3.Implement the "One Belt One Road" initiative and launch a special action "Chinese Lantern Light The Silk Road".At present, there are 28 lantern festivals confirmed to be hold overseas in 2017. This year Zigong lanterns will also light up in Hamburg, Germany during the 2017 G20 Forum.