A video featuring a number of distinct local elements of Jinjiang and Nan’an, Quanzhou, Fujian province was aired on the big screens in Times Square, New York, the United States, on Dec 24. 

It will be played 72 times a day until Jan 2. At the same time, the square screen in front of the Beijing Station will also play the promotional video on Dec 27, which will be played for seven consecutive days and 60 times a day. 

The video played in the two metropolitan cities is expected to showcase the charm of Jinjiang and Nan’an culture. 

Jinjiang is a county-level city in the coastal city of Quanzhou in Fujian province with a history of about 1,300 years. 

During the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, the Zayton Port in Jinjiang was known as the "largest port in the east", and was recognized as the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. 

The city is also the ancestral home of about three million overseas Chinese living around the world in more than 60 countries and regions. 

It is only about 9.82 km from Taiwan's Jinmen county. There are more than one million Taiwan compatriots whose ancestral home is Jinjiang. 

Since China's reform and opening-up began in 1978, Jinjiang vigorously developed its private and real economy, and has formed a characteristic development path. Jinjiang's economic aggregate has been the first among Fujian's county-level cities for 25 consecutive years. 

While Nan'an is a another county-level city that has listed as one of China's top 100 small and medium-sized cities in comprehensive strength and one of the top 100 cities with the most investment potential. 

It is also a national intellectual property rights pilot city and a national ecological civilization construction demonstration city. 

Nan'an has a history of 1,759 years, and was once the political, economic and cultural center of southern Fujian. 

During the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, many fine porcelain pieces, and a great deal of tea and other commodities were transported from Nan'an to the world. 

Today, more than six million Nan'an people are distributed in 58 countries and regions around the world, and they have set up 71 chambers of commerce at home and abroad.

It now gathers the world's largest stone design, production and trading center, China's largest hardware and plumbing production base, and the fourth-largest grain and oil processing and distribution center. 

Times Square is a major tourist destination and entertainment center located at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue in the Manhattan section of New York City, the United States. 

As one the world’s busiest area, it is often dubbed "the crossroads of the world" and "the center of the universe". 

A video featuring a number of distinct local elements of Jinjiang and Nan’an, Quanzhou, Fujian province is aired on the big screens in Times Square, New York, the United States, on Dec 24. [Photo/qzwb.com]

An aerial view of Jinjiang, a county-level city in the coastal city of Quanzhou in Fujian province with a history of about 1,300 years. [Photo/qzwb.com]