The history of Huai'an becoming the world's gastronomic capital. The history of Huai'an becoming the world's gastronomic capital. Jiangsu has always been a place where northern and southern cultures blend. Whether it is personnel structure or cultural traditions, it has both the strengths of the north and the south and is well integrated.

Such delicacies born from the soil have helped Huaian become the world's gourmet capital.

The journey of Huai'an becoming a World City of Gastronomy 1 UNESCO official website announced: 49 cities have joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network after being appointed by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay in recognition of their commitment to

Putting culture and creativity at the heart of its development and sharing knowledge and good practice.

Huai'an successfully applied for the title of "World Culinary Capital". This is the fifth city in China to successfully join the list of the world's "Course Capital" after Chengdu in Sichuan, Shunde in Guangdong, Macau, and Yangzhou in Jiangsu.

Huai'an Shenchuang's "City of Food" has four major advantages: Profound food culture.

Huai'an is one of the main birthplaces and inheritance places of Huaiyang cuisine.

Huaiyang cuisine began in the Spring and Autumn Period and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the benchmark cuisine of "the first banquet of the founding of the People's Republic of China".

There are more than 1,300 kinds of Huaiyang classic dishes and snacks, and 298 dishes and cooking techniques have been selected into the provincial intangible cultural heritage list, the most among all districts and cities in the country.

Huai'an has built the country's largest theme cuisine museum - China Huaiyang Cuisine Culture Museum, established the Huaiyang Cuisine Culture Industry Working Committee, established the Huaiyang Cuisine Group, and allocates special funds every year for the inheritance and innovation of Huaiyang Cuisine Culture Industry

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Huaiyang cuisine is also an important part of the "Chinese Food Prosperity Plan" of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.

A solid foundation for the food industry.

Huai'an is a famous food city in China. The output value of the city's food industry has exceeded 100 billion yuan, and it has gathered a large number of key leading enterprises such as Wangwang Food, Jinshiyuan Wine Industry, and Quanwen Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

As of the end of 2020, the city has more than 40,000 restaurants of various types, employing more than 250,000 people, with annual catering sales of 21 billion yuan, and has geographical indication trademarks represented by "Xuyi Lobster" and "Huai'an Red Pepper"

129 cases, ranking among the top among districts and cities in the country.

High-quality culinary talent resources.

Huai'an's culinary education is relatively developed. There are 10 colleges and universities offering cooking majors, and a total of more than 100,000 intermediate and senior chefs have been trained. There are currently 120 national-level "cooking masters" and more than 30 cooking master studios and intangible cultural heritage food studios.

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Excellent green ecological environment.

Huai'an is located on the geographical dividing line between north and south of China, with four rivers running through the city and five lakes inlaid in it. The water area accounts for 1/4 of the city's area. It is known as the "city floating on the water."

The unique green ecological environment creates high-quality and rich ingredients such as lobster, hairy crabs, gorgon seeds, and cattail vegetables.

The journey of Huai'an becoming a "City of Food" In the past five years, Huai'an has deepened international exchanges and promoted mutual learning among civilizations.

We went to the UNESCO headquarters to hold the Huaiyang Food Appreciation Fair, and went to more than 20 countries and regions to promote food, and deepened exchanges with the "City of Food" cities through "Going Out", "Invite in" and "Cloud Interaction".

Over the past five years, Huaian has developed brand festivals to showcase the charm of gourmet food.

The China (Huai'an) International Food Expo has been held for four consecutive years, and a series of activities such as the Huaiyang Cuisine Master Invitational Competition have been held.

Create a "one county, one special" brand, hold Xuyi International Lobster Festival, Hongze Lake International Hairy Crab Festival, etc. every year, and spread them in more than 50 domestic and foreign media including People's Daily, CCTV, European Times, and Toutiao.

In the past five years, Huaian has focused on policy support and accelerated industrial development.

Implementation opinions were issued to further accelerate the development of Huaiyang cuisine industry, and the municipal finance allocated 10 million yuan each year to support and guide the inheritance and innovation of food culture.

A total of 112 innovative dishes have been developed, 62 famous gourmet restaurants have been launched, 45 leading catering companies have been cultivated, 40 cooking masters have been selected, and 16 special food and cultural districts have been built.

In the past five years, Huai'an has practiced the concept of serving the people and promoted food to benefit the people.

Promote the return of fishing to the lake, and realize the resettlement of 100,000 fishermen in Hongze Lake through food and employment.

Promote lobster to enrich the people, take advantage of the Xuyi lobster brand value of 21.5 billion yuan, open more than 3,000 lobster chain stores, and 200,000 people in the city are engaged in related industries.

Promote free tastings, benefiting more than 20,000 low-income residents each year.

Over the past five years, Huaian has explored cross-border integration and strengthened collaborative innovation.

The filming of gourmet film and television works such as "Kimchi Falls in Love with Crayfish" and "Food Adventure" were completed.

The food novel "Going North" won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award.

The food new media video "Gift to the World - Huaiyang Food" won the 2019 Miami-America China Television Art Week Short Video Gold Award "Golden Pearl Award".