On October 19th, the press conference of the 9th China International Food Tourism Festival was held in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan, and Weimin Li, deputy director of the festival, informed the media about the situation.
Deputy Director Weimin Li is pleased to tell you that in October, as the "International Food Capital" awarded by UNESCO, Chengdu will have another food feast. After intensive preparations, the 9th China International Food Tourism Festival will be held in Chengdu from October 26th to November 4th.
This press conference highlighted the features and highlights of this year's Food Tourism Festival, and the main points are as follows:
The joint exhibition of food industry is more abundant
This year's Food Tourism Festival will set up a "global food exhibition area" in the main venue, bringing together for the first time three award-winning brand foods from international, domestic and provincial food, local famous snacks, Chinese time-honored brands and annual folk food selection, snack competition and classic Sichuan cuisine selection; "Brand Agricultural Products Direct Selling for Huimin" will directly sell fresh products and deep-processed agricultural products including vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry, grain and oil, aquatic products, edible fungi, forest and bamboo, Chinese herbal medicines and other ten agricultural industries; "Condiments and raw materials industry exhibition" will display Sichuan brand condiments and food raw materials; "Special Foods Taste Fresh" will focus on the exhibition of famous and special foods, organically certified foods, geographical indication foods, Chinese time-honored foods, halal foods, tourist foods and snack foods that are representative at home and abroad; The "Tea Tea Tasting Party" will display tea and deep-processed products, tea meals, tea utensils and tea crafts, and show the unique charm and cultural heritage of "Sichuan Tea" through the tea tasting party.
A series of gourmet tourism competitions and evaluation activities are splendid
One of the most important highlights of this year's gourmet tourism festival is to explore folk cuisine and inherit the cuisine culture of Sichuan cuisine. To this end, the Organizing Committee has set up three major food events: the annual folk food selection, the annual classic Sichuan cuisine selection competition and the second snack competition. Since June this year, various appraisal activities have been carried out one after another, and food experts, folk judges and folk food groups have been organized to participate extensively, and activities such as "food bus search" have been carried out. CDTV-3 has produced and broadcast 6 series of "food bus" programs throughout the city, setting off a wave of food selection in the whole city. Through the sea election, weekly competition and final competition, 1 "Golden Pepper" awards and 2 winners were selected by the folk food sea election and snack competition. There are 1 winners in the annual classic Sichuan cuisine selection activity and 2 winners in innovative Sichuan cuisine. These award-winning delicacies will be presented in a joint exhibition area at the main venue of the Food Tourism Festival for the public and tourists.
At the same time, this year's Food Tourism Festival is the first time to hold the "Selection of Tourism Boutiques in Characteristic Townships" in Chengdu. The activity was launched in an all-round way on August 21st, and received strong support and extensive participation from the news media and citizens and tourists. Among them, in online voting, the cumulative number of people who visited the website reached 1,65,342, and 873,349 votes were effectively cast by clicking. Through recommendation, preliminary evaluation, market survey, online voting, on-the-spot (in-kind) evaluation and comprehensive evaluation, 5 fine farmhouses (including rural hotels), 5 rural cuisines, 1 rural beautiful scenery, 1 rural tourism boutique routes and 2 famous rural tourism native products have been preliminarily selected. This selection activity closely combines characteristic tourism with rural cuisine, which is a comprehensive and systematic combing and inspection of rural tourism products in Chengdu. Through the selection, the brand is further established, the demonstration effect is formed, the development mode of rural tourism is promoted, and the file is continuously upgraded.
Business, culture, entertainment and interaction add to the charm of the festival
For the first time, the main venue of this year's Food and Tourism Festival was introduced to Russia, China, Kazakstan and other five countries jointly with Royal International greatest show on earth, with three performances every day and a welcoming parade every day, creating a "food carnival" integrating program performance, entertainment and thrilling experience. Well-known anchors of Chengdu Radio and Television Station will jointly stage an "anchor song meeting" to sing golden songs, taste delicious food and comment on delicious food with citizens and tourists. During the Gourmet Tourism Festival, the Second International Gourmet Capital Summit Forum will be held. At that time, representatives of some catering enterprises in the province will get together with well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad and overseas communication ambassadors of Gourmet Capital to share special speeches and catering brands around the theme of "Internationalization and Construction of Gourmet Capital". At the same time, this year's Food Tourism Festival will also invite journalists from major national broadcast media to Chengdu to carry out the "Discovery Tour of Food in Chengdu" and interact with the general public and tourists to taste, taste and comment on Chengdu cuisine.
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The foods included in the interactive experience area of the 1th China (Chengdu) International Food Tourism Festival are: Zhou Goose, Shanqiang Rabbit Head, Yuji Pig Liver, Halal Ding Goose, Yang Chicken, Crispy Bean Flower and Hibiscus Bag in Pixian County; Frozen cakes in Chongzhou, Ye Erba, Guanyin salted duck, chicken in Catholic Church, chicken with fat intestines and blood in Dayi, stewed chicken with yam, yellow chicken with Anren, spicy sauce with Zhang Bapo, and tofu pudding without meat at night; Qionglai's Jiang beef, Luoji spicy duck skull, Guyi Zhaoji roasted duck with sweet skin ... can all be eaten here, which saves you the trouble of traveling by boat. These interactive food experience zones not only integrate local traditional folk customs, local culture and special food in Chengdu, but also allow the general public and tourists to enjoy the ecological beauty and food culture while enjoying the flavor food.