Xinxiang shares Spring Festival happiness with the outside world by showing itself at Dragon Year Lantern Festival in France

2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. During the Chinese New Year, beautiful pictures from Xinxiang, Henan Province is being exhibited at a conspicuous location of the Lantern Show in Paris Jardin d'Acclimatation in France, fully showcasing the charm of Xinxiang and enhancing its overseas popularity, allowing global tourists to see the beauty of China and share the joy of the Spring Festival with the world. The image exhibition will continue until February 25th.

Xinxiang was first established at the sixth year of Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty (A.D.586) over 1400 years ago. It is now an important part of the compound metropolitan area of Zhengzhou, a national central city, and is the core development region of Central Plains Cities Group.

Xinxiang has a long history where remains of Yangshao Culture and Longshan Culture can be seen, and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. Yellow River runs 170km in Xinxiang, opening up the longest ecological corridor in Henan Province. Beach land along the river reaches 1290 sq km, ranking No.1 in Henan Province. Within this area, forest parks and wet lands form a graceful ecological tourist industry belt along the river. Taihang Mountains offer its best to Xinxiang. It is reputed that "Taihang stretches one thousand miles long but its soul is in Xinxiang".

Global innovation lies in the Silicon Valley, and the Central Plains Agricultural Valley depends on Xinxiang. The Central Plains Agricultural Valley is located in Xinxiang City, Henan Province, China, with a total planned area of 1612 square kilometers. Under the guidance of building a national highland of modern agricultural scientific and technological innovation, Xinxiang has been implementing the development strategy of "one nucleus and three zones" and has made fully effort to build "four centers and two demonstration zones". The "four centers" are a national seed industry sci-tech innovation center, a modern grain industry sci-tech innovation center, an agricultural sci-tech achievements transfer and transformation center, and an agricultural foreign cooperation and exchange center. The "two demonstration zones" are an agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone and an intelligent (digital) agricultural demonstration zone.

*综合新华社、新乡日报、美国新闻(US News.Net)报道。

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