Yangzhou college spruces up for annual festival

As the main venue for the 2018 Yangzhou International Economy, Trade and Tourism Festival, Jiangsu College of Tourism has been freshened up to welcome guests from all around the world. 

Lasting from April 18 to May 18, the annual festival has been held in Yangzhou city since 2002. It plays an increasingly significant role in raising the city’s international profile and helps to promote regional economic development, improve livelihoods of local people, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation with other countries and regions. 

Li Bai (701-762), a great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), wrote the well-known verse "Heading east for Yangzhou among hazy vernal hues in the lunar March". Yangzhou, the pearl on the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, is embracing its best time of the year.                 

An aerial view of Jiangsu College of Tourism, main venue of the 2018 Yangzhou International Economy, Trade and Tourism Festival. [Photo/yznews.com.cn] 

Miniascape, one of the delicate cultural legacies from Yangzhou Garden, is readied with decorations at an entrance of Jiangsu College of Tourism in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province. [Photo/yznews.com.cn]