XI'AN, China, Nov. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The closing
ceremony of the 2018 "China-EU Tourism Year" (CETY) was held in
Xi'an, Northwestern China's Shaanxi Province on November 17. Officials at all levels
congratulated and expressed best wishes for the end of the
year-long event.
The ceremony was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Culture
and Tourism of China (MCT) and
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship
and SMEs of the European Commission (DG GROW). The Department of
Culture and Tourism of Shaanxi
Province co-sponsored it.
Yu Qun, committee member of MCT,
Zhao Gang, Vice Governor of
Shaanxi Province, Lowri Evans, Director General of DG GROW
delivered speeches respectively. Diplomatic envoys and
representatives of Chinese and European tourism enterprises
attended the event.
In his speech, Yu said that the successful implementation of the
2018 CETY and the booming tourism in China and Europe have once again confirmed the love for
life among the people in China and
Europe, their enthusiasm for
exploring the world and their aspiration to understand each other.
China is willing to take the event
as an opportunity to deepen its cooperation in the field of tourism
with the EU and its member states so as to inject new impetus into
the development of China-EU relations.
Zhao said the closing ceremony of the 2018 CETY provides the EU
and the world with an opportunity to understand and cooperate with
Shaanxi. In light of "Belt and
Road Initiative", Shaanxi will
continue to promote exchanges and cooperation in tourism with EU
countries.
Evans spoke highly of the fruitful achievements of the 2018
CETY, thanked China for its
contribution to the successful implementation, and said she would
continue to work with China to
lift China-EU relations to a new level.
On January 19, 2018, the 2018 CETY
kicked off in Venice, Italy. In
the past year, China and the EU
have organized more than 100 promotional events in various forms
under the framework of the CETY and the events have aroused
extensive interest from all sectors in China and Europe.
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