Jiangsu Cultural and Tourism Promotion Seminar Held Successfully in Singapore

2022-08-29

Singapore, 25 July, 2022-The Jiangsu Cultural and Tourism Promotion Seminar which is organised by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, co-organised by the Jiangsu Tourism (Singapore & Malaysia) Promotion Centre, and fully supported by the China Cultural Centre in Singapore, the China National Tourist Office in Singapore and the Jiangsu Association (Singapore), was held on 23 July,2022 (Saturday) at the 4th-floor theatre of theChina Cultural Centre in Singapore.

Li Chuan, Deputy Director General of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, participated in the event through online connectivity. Honoured Guests such as Christina Chan–Assistant Director of Singapore Tourism Board (International Relations), Xiao Jianghua–Director of the China Cultural Centre in Singapore and the China National Tourist Office in Singapore, Shen Liguo–representative of the Jiangsu Provincial Economic and Trade Office in Singapore, and more than 200 audiences from Singapore’s arts and culture sector, tourism sector,  business community, associations, news media and the general public attended the event. During the hour-long seminar, attendees appreciated the beauty of Jiangsu’s landscape, water resources and culture through the literature, tea culture and wine culture of Jiangsu, as well as the latest tourist attractions in Nanjing.

Li Chuan, Deputy Director General of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, said in a video message that the establishment of the Suzhou Industrial Park between Jiangsu Province and Singapore in 1994 has laid a deep and strong foundation for the friendship between Singapore and Jiangsu. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented travel between the two places in the past two years, the friendship and exchanges between Singapore and Jiangsu have not been hindered. As a cultural province, Jiangsu is endowed with profound cultural heritage. In recent years, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism has been promoting the integration of culture and tourism resources and has created a number of outstanding literary works and high quality tourism products with the characteristics of Jiangsu, which Singaporeans are invited to experience in person.

Xiao Jianghua, Director of the China Cultural Centre in Singapore and the China National Tourist Office in Singapore, also mentioned other good examples of close exchanges and cooperation between Singapore and China in his speech–the 2019 Cultural and Tourism Year of Jiangsu  held at the China Cultural Centre in Singapore gave a new impetus to the cultural exchanges between China and Singapore, and the “Ride Jiangsu” event organised by the Singapore Jiangsu Association in the same year took more than 30 Singaporean friends to visit Jiangsu. He said that Jiangsu is a very important province in Eastern China and the seminar brought out the deep-rooted charm of Jiangsu from different perspectives, which can be used as references for future trips to Jiangsu.

The seminar was divided into four sessions on literature, tea, wine and Jiangsu Nanjing’s new attractions. At the opening performance, Singapore’s renowned Wind Percussion ensemble, Reverberance, brought the audience music with rich traditional Chinese characteristics. For the literature session, Lee Ye Ming, Editor-in-Chief of sgwritings.com, led the audience to learn about Jiangsu from the perspectives of poems, the Four Great Classical Novels, literati, as well as movies and tv series; and for the tea session, Kenry Beh, the owner of a nearly century-old tea house, shared with the audience the knowledge of Biluochun, the number one tea in Jiangsu produced in the Dongting Mountains of Suzhou. As for the wine session, it brought out the beauty of Suqian with Jiangsu Yanghe wine. The seminar highlights one of the hottest attractions in Nanjing today–the Jinling  Town and takes the audience on a video tour of this new attraction. Additionally, the host also linked up with Gu Wen, a veteran travel agent in Nanjing, to take the audience on a tour of the Confucius Temple and the Qinhuai River, and experience the fun of travelling around Nanjing.

In addition to the seminar inside the theatre, the lobby outside the theatre is also very eye-catching, with pictures of the 13 cities in Jiangsu and a specially designed photo booth with the Yangzhou Slender West Lake, which attracts many people to take photos before and after the event. Furthermore, the audience also responded enthusiastically to Jiangsu’s promotional items, the tote bag with Jiangsu’s characteristics becoming a “favourite” of the audience. Many of the attendees expressed their anticipation that tourism between China and Singapore could soon resume as soon as China further relaxes its entry restrictions so that they could experience Jiangsu for themselves.

■ Li Chuan, Deputy Director General of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, delivered a speech via video.

■ Xiao Jianghua, Director of the China Cultural Centre in Singapore and the China National Tourist Office in Singapore, delivered a speech.

■Xiao Jianghua (centre), Director of the China Cultural Centre in Singapore and the China National Tourist Office in Singapore, Christina Chan(6th from right), the Assistant Director of Singapore Tourism Board (International Relations), Paul Chin (5th from right), Head of Jiangsu Tourism (Singapore & Malaysia) Promotion Centre and General Manager of Travellution Media Pte Ltd, with a group of guests.

■ Xiao Jianghua and Paul Chin posed for a photo at the “Slender West Lake” photo booth.

■Xiao Jianghua (centre), Christina Chan (4th from left), Zhou Zheng (3rd from left) and Jiang Hong (2nd from left)–Deputy Directors of the China National Tourist Office in Singapore, taking pictures with a group of attendees in traditional Chinese costume.

■ Paul Chin (from left), Xiao Jianghua, Christina Chan, Zhou Zheng and Jiang Hong posed for a photo in front of the photo board of 13 cities in Jiangsu.

■Reverberance was invited to be the opening guest performer of the seminar.

■Li Yeming took participants on a literary tour of the humanities and beauty of Jiangsu.

■Kenry Beh, the lecturer for the tea session, is a fan of Dongting Biluochun.

■Gu Wen, a veteran travel industry professional, introduced participants to Nanjing’s new attraction by online connectivity.

■As the “main protagonist”of wine session, the Yanghe wine produced in Suqian is world-renowned.

■ The public lined up to register for the seminar.

■Before entering the venue, the public received brochures about Jiangsu tourism.

■People gathered in the lobby to take photos and enjoy the beautiful pictures of the 13 cities in Jiangsu before the event started.

■Beautiful pictures of 13 cities in Jiangsu attracted people to stop and have a look.

■ Participants dressed in traditional Chinese costume posed at the photo booth.

■ A participant filling out the Jiangsu Tourism Questionnaire.

■The seminar was well supported by the public and was well attended.