It is reported that this Lantern Festival is hosted by china tourism association, China Folk Writers Association Lighting Art Committee, Shaanxi Tourism Development Committee, undertaken by hancheng city People's Government, and co-organized by relevant industry associations and enterprises.
Hancheng is the hometown of Sima Qian, a world famous historical and cultural figure, a famous historical and cultural city in China, an excellent tourist city in China and the pepper capital of China. Hancheng is rich in cultural relics, including 15 national cultural relics and 3 national intangible cultural heritage projects. The ancient buildings in the Yuan Dynasty accounted for one sixth of the country, and it has the reputation of "Sima in the history of China, with the most cultural relics in Guanzhong". In recent years, Hancheng has made every effort to build a regional central city and a world-class tourist destination along the Yellow River, and made new breakthroughs in tourism development supported by "six core scenic spots" such as Sima Qian Temple, Ancient City, Dangjia Village, Liangdai Village, Zhao Pu Temple and Dayu Temple. In 20 15, Hancheng was named as the first pioneer area of tourism reform and innovation and the first national demonstration city of global tourism creation by the National Tourism Administration. On 20 17, the tourism industry alliance of cities along the Yellow River was established, with its headquarters and secretariat located in Hancheng, and the Shaanxi Tourism Industry Development Fund was established, with the first total capital of 20 billion and the first investment of 2 billion. The development of modern tourism in Hancheng has entered a new stage of "panoramic tourism in Hancheng". The comprehensive influence of Historical Records Hancheng Yellow River Special Zone Newspaper has been greatly improved. In 20 16, the comprehensive strength of Hancheng rose from the 78th place in "Top 100 Western Countries" to the 30th place, and from the 6th place in "Top 100 Shaanxi 10" to the 2nd place. The gross national product is 32 billion yuan, the local fiscal revenue is 2/kloc-0.60 billion yuan, and the per capita annual income of urban and rural residents is 3/kloc-0.30 billion yuan respectively.
It is understood that this year's Lighting Art Festival is roughly divided into four sections according to the idea of "highlighting key points, making details, creating bright spots, giving consideration to the whole world and promoting industries": new town section, ancient city section, Lishui section and national cultural and historical park section. The new town plate will focus on Taishi Street, Huanghe Street and Longmen Street, and display creative lighting works with historical stories, regional culture and other themes. At the same time, light sculptures with the themes of family, children, youth, love and sports will be arranged in various parks in the city. The ancient city plate will rely on the long history of the ancient city to show the traditional culture of Hancheng, and dress up by combining traditional lighting with modern light and shadow art to show the new charm of the ancient city; Laishui River Plate will set up domestic exhibition area and international exhibition area respectively to display modern lighting works with the theme of Hancheng historical and cultural lighting group and Yellow River Tourism Alliance city and county characteristic lighting group, and according to the idea of "ten miles of Laishui, ten thousand red lanterns", a lantern wall will be set up on Hexi levee; In the National Literature and History Park, a large light group "Shi Sheng Huazhang" will be arranged in the Literature and History Park, and colorful works with the theme of "Historical Records" will be arranged in Sima Qian Temple Square. In addition, road flags and LED art sketching lights will be laid on both sides of the expressway from Zhichuan to downtown, Chengdong Avenue, South Second Ring Road and Yellow Highway to connect the exhibition areas in series to form a big ring road.
In this year's Lighting Festival, in addition to enjoying the splendid lighting feast, Hancheng will also hold the first national lantern creative design competition. Lantern designers from all over the country will gather in Hancheng to learn skills and show the charm of lighting. At the same time, during the Lantern Festival, the Cultural Theme Museum of the Ancient City Lantern Festival will officially meet with tourists. By then, the lighting art will meet the history and culture of Hancheng, and Hancheng will show new fashion charm.
This year's Lighting Festival adopts the market-oriented operation mode of "the government sets up a stage and enterprises sing a play", with the goal of making the city better, the citizens more civilized and the industry more modern through tourism, and with the direction of promoting the transformation of the Lighting Art Festival into a national brand, a national strategy and the benefits of Hancheng, focusing on showing the development and changes of Hancheng in recent years through the Lighting Art Festival, telling the story of Hancheng, and finally realizing the promotion of activities by culture, benefits by activities, industries by benefits and cultures by industries.
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