Yizhou grape festival ends

Many people gather in Yizhou for the grape festival. [Photo by Jiang Kuan/hcwang.cn]

Yizhou's first grape festival ended on June 30 after half a month, reported Hechi Net.

Lasting from June 13 to 30, the festival included activities such as grape picking, cycling, a grape trade fair, a grape selection competition, a grape eating competition, a children's painting exhibition and a photography competition.

People compete in the grape eating competition during the Yizhou grape festival. [Photo by Jiang Kuan/hcwang.cn]

The festival was sponsored by Yizhou municipal people's government to improve Yizhou Modern Characteristic Agricultural Demonstration Zone, increase brand awareness of local grapes and promote rapid development of local leisure tourism agriculture.

According to Zhou Fei, Yizhou municipal Party secretary, Yizhou is one of the 20 characteristic tourism counties in Guangxi. Yizhou's focus this year is rural tourism and many works have been done in this field to improve local tourism industry.

Yizhou, a county-level city in Hechi, Guangxi, is a cultural old city with a history over 2,100 years. As the hometown of the singer Liu Sanjie and the birthplace of China's first villagers' committee, Yizhou has beautiful scenery, folk culture and abundant tourism resources. It is also the biggest silkworm producing county nationwide and Guangxi's cocoon silk recycling economic demonstration base.

Edited by Andrew Ancheta