Danzhou offers various events for 21st Hainan Island Carnival

Cigar making techniques are displayed during the eighth Danzhou Cigar Cultural Tourism Festival, which was launched on Nov 27. [Photo/chinanews.cn]

The city of Danzhou, one of the sub-venues for the 21st Hainan Island Carnival, has been hosting an array of sports and cultural events for both tourists and local residents.

The eighth Danzhou Cigar Cultural Tourism Festival was launched on Nov 27, seeking to inject vitality into the cigar industry, as well as to cultivate new forms of cultural tourism consumption and new economic growth hot spots. The event is becoming an important platform for Danzhou to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative and expand its opening up efforts to the outside world.