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2023-09-23 15:51:51

Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, September 23 (Reporter Yang Chi) On September 23, the 2023 Guangxi Celebration Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival and the Guigang Selenium-Rich Crayfish Series were held in Guiping City. With the theme of “Celebrating Harvest and Promoting Harmony and Beauty”, this series of activities uses activities with Guangxi characteristics, ethnic characteristics, and local characteristics to set up a stage for farmers in the region to display their style and start their own businesses, creating a platform that embodies the inheritance of excellent farming culture and contains the new era. Spiritual folk festival.

In 2023, Guangxi’s series of activities to celebrate the Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival will be held in Guiping. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chi)

This harvest festival adheres to the purpose of “celebrating the harvest, promoting culture, and revitalizing the countryside”. A kilometer-long “harvest scroll” was set up at the event site. Guiping Xishan tea, Qintang Maojian, Liuzhou snail noodles and other regional specialty agricultural products are displayed at more than 70 “Harvest Long Roll” booths. Representative folk intangible cultural performances of Guiping City such as Tea Picking Opera, Spring Ox Dance, and Guiping Stick Puppet Show were also performed on site. At the same time, the harvest calligraphy and painting photography exhibition and harvest display check-in point held on site also attracted many tourists to visit and experience it.

At the event site, exhibitors were displaying their harvest of crayfish. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chi)

At the event site, a series of activities such as the Field Harvest Carnival Special Sports Games and the Rural Cooking Competition attracted contestants from all over the region to compete together. The event combines agricultural product display and sales, intangible cultural heritage, interesting events, rural tourism, special food, etc. into a colorful and integrated harvest celebration, fully demonstrating the new changes in Guangxi’s countryside, new agricultural development, and new styles of farmers.

At the event site, tourists were experiencing Guiping Xishan Tea. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chi)

In recent years, Guangxi has relied on its unique resource advantages such as forests, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and sugar to vigorously develop modern characteristic agriculture, creating a number of tens of billions of industries such as grain, sugar cane, and fruit. Grain and important agricultural products have achieved stable production and bumper harvests for many years. Huang Zhiyu, director of the Autonomous Region’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said in his speech that this series of events adopts the model of “1 main venue + 2 branch venues + celebration activities throughout the region”. More than 100 harvest celebration activities will be held in the region. Let farmer friends truly become the protagonists of the festival.

At the event site, exhibitors were introducing Jintian Huaishan noodles. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chi)

Guigang City, where this event was held, has vigorously developed the selenium-rich crayfish industry in recent years, and has built a comprehensive rice and shrimp cultivation area of ​​more than 100,000 acres, successfully creating “a hundred catties of shrimp, a thousand catties of grain, and a ten thousand yuan field” per mu. Lin Haibo, Mayor of Guigang City, said in his speech that Guigang City will take this event as an opportunity to strive to embark on a path of rural revitalization with beautiful countryside, prosperous industries, wealthy farmers, and excellent governance.

At the event site, tourists were tasting Gulianxiang mooncakes. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chi)

It is understood that this series of activities is guided by the People’s Government of the Autonomous Region, sponsored by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the Autonomous Region and the People’s Government of Guigang City, and co-organized by the Guiping Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the People’s Government of Guiping City, and the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guigang City.

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