As the hometown of tofu is in Huainan, and the tofu in Bagongshan in Huainan is well-known at home and abroad, the Huainan Municipal People's Government actively won the right to host the China Tofu Culture Festival at the beginning of199/kloc-0, which was strongly supported by the Anhui Provincial People's Government. The former Ministry of Commerce decided to hold the second China Tofu Culture Festival at 19965438+. Later, the Huaihe River basin suffered a rare flood disaster in history, so it was postponed to 1992. As the second China Tofu Culture Festival was very successful, the former Ministry of Commerce and the provincial people's government unanimously agreed and approved it.
Zhang Runxia, former vice governor of Huizhou City, announced at the closing ceremony of the second China Tofu Culture Festival that the China Tofu Culture Festival will be held in Huainan every year from September 15.
Because the second China Tofu Culture Festival was held in Huainan for one year, but it was held in Taiwan Province Province at that time, there was a problem that the sessions of China Tofu Culture Festival were inconsistent between the two sides. In order to solve this problem, in 1993, the former Ministry of Commerce came forward to negotiate and decided to use the year number instead of the number of sessions for the China Tofu Culture Festival held on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the future. Later, in order to show the continuity and venue of the Tofu Festival, the 14th China (Huainan) Tofu Culture Festival was held in 2002 with the consent of the organizer China Chamber of Commerce and the Anhui Provincial People's Government.
Since 1992, Huainan City has successfully held 13 China Tofu Culture Festival (1998 and 1999 were closed for two years due to the Asian financial crisis and domestic floods). During the festival, more than 20,000 Chinese and foreign guests were received, including more than 1,000 foreigners and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Leaders of Tian Jiyun, Malaysia, Li Desheng, Hui Liangyu and other countries and provinces, thousands of leaders of municipal and provincial departments, hundreds of experts and scholars such as Niu and Hong Guangzhu, and dozens of cultural and economic delegations attended the cultural festival. More than 200 Chinese and foreign journalists have visited Huainan successively. 1993 On May 29th, our city successfully held a press conference in the Great Hall of the People. Sun Qimeng, Hong Xuezhi, Li, Wang, Chen and other leading comrades attended the meeting and delivered warm speeches. 1996 Huainan City has designed and issued 468,000 sets of "China Tofu Culture Festival Telephone Magnetic Card" by the State Telecommunications Administration, which is the first time that the national telephone magnetic card has been issued for local festivals. 1997 also distributed 200 business cards of China Tofu Culture Festival through Anhui Post and Telecommunications Bureau, which also had a good influence. China Tofu Culture Festival (III), China Tofu Cookbook (III), China Bean Products and Bagongshan Tofu were compiled by the organizing committee, which expanded the tofu culture to a deeper level.
China Tofu Culture Festival has arranged more than 60 large and medium-sized activities in six aspects: the opening and closing ceremonies, the international symposium on tofu culture, the cooking contest of tofu dishes, economic and trade activities, cultural activities and sightseeing.
-The opening ceremony was grand and warm, attended by leaders of central provinces and cities, Chinese and foreign guests and hundreds of thousands of people. The opening ceremony was spectacular, rich in content and elegant in style, which fully demonstrated the ancient rhyme of Huaihe River, national culture and the great achievements of Huainan's modernization.
-A hundred schools of thought contend at the International Symposium on Tofu Culture, with more than 300 experts and scholars from home and abroad attending, publishing more than 100 papers and writing 6 sets of tofu culture papers. The scientific and technological achievements in some papers have been transformed into productive forces. In 2000, Huainan successfully developed and produced "Yiyi" brand instant bean curd powder, a pure natural and sugar-free convenient green food integrating soybean milk, bean brain and bean curd, which solved the problem of preservation and transportation of bean curd and created conditions for Huainan bean curd to go global.
-"The First National Tofu Cooking Competition" was jointly sponsored by China Chamber of Commerce, China Cuisine Association and Huainan Municipal People's Government, with high specifications, strong authority, wide participation and great influence. It attracted 26 teams and 2 17 players from 6 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide. Famous chefs gathered to show their skills, fully demonstrating the latest cooking level of tofu dishes today. Thousands of people visited it and received extensive attention and praise from guests and society. It has become an activity with strong vitality and great development potential in the tofu festival.
-economic and trade activities are closely focused on attracting investment and expanding sales, focusing on holding product fairs, commodity fairs and economic and trade fairs. The product fair consists of more than ten kinds of fairs in the whole country, the whole province and Huainan City. Tens of thousands of products from nearly 1,000 enterprises in more than 20 provinces and cities (including Taiwan Province Province) participated in the exhibition, with rich products and active transactions. The Fair integrates exhibition, ordering, negotiation and trading, and arranges more than 30 activities every year. During the Tofu Culture Festival, more than 400 investment projects and more than 200 contracted projects were launched. Foreign-funded groups from South Korea, the United States, Germany and other countries and regions have successively invested in Huai. The total economic and trade turnover of this tofu culture festival reached 8 billion yuan, of which the contract value was 6.4 billion yuan, and more than 4 billion yuan has been implemented, with considerable economic benefits.
-The conditions for holding festivals and the investment environment have been effectively improved. Taking the Cultural Festival as an opportunity, Huainan intensified the construction of a civilized city, building a new city gymnasium, a city museum, an overpass on Chen Dong Road, a radio and television building, an electric power building and a post and telecommunications building, widening the 206 national highway, building and maintaining dozens of urban roads, beautifying the city's appearance, perfecting its service functions and improving its investment environment.
China Tofu Culture Festival fully embodies the purpose of "taking tofu as the medium, taking culture as the platform, promoting economy and trade, and singing opera through tourism", and fully demonstrates Huainan's good economic foundation, good investment environment, stable and United political situation and great achievements in the construction of two civilizations. The China Tofu Culture Festival has played a positive role in promoting national culture, developing Chinese cuisine, opening wider to the outside world, raising Huainan's popularity, making Huainan go global, letting the world know about Huainan, and promoting economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation between Huainan and domestic and foreign countries. China Tofu Culture Festival is striding forward to the level of international business travel culture festival.
China culture is extensive and profound, and tofu culture has a long history. The rich accumulation of tofu culture needs us to develop and prosper. As the hometown of tofu, Huainan people have the responsibility, obligation and ability to run the China Tofu Culture Festival continuously, and make greater contributions to promoting the national essence of tofu, developing Chinese cuisine and promoting human health.