Review of Gushi Genqin Culture Festival

On the morning of June 26th, 2009, 10, the "First China Gushi Root-seeking Culture Festival" hosted by China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference and All-China Federation of Taiwan was held in Chenggong Square. The cultural festival highlights the theme of "roots and relatives" and focuses on promoting the top ten cultural exchanges and economic and trade negotiations.

Huang Rulun, president of the World Huang Clan Association, invested more than 20 million yuan to build the lowered Huang Clan Association Hall, and also donated 3 million yuan to build the Gushi Genqin Museum. The four-star Gushi State Guesthouse, which was built with an investment of 200 million yuan by the World Ho Clan Association, was completed and put into use in 2009. Stone's Hong Kong Xinyi Group invested 20 million yuan in Gushi to build a comprehensive rice project with an annual processing capacity of 300,000 tons, and actively participated in the economic construction of its hometown. 20 12,101On the morning of October 26th, the 4th Central Plains (Gushi) Roots Culture Festival, hosted by the Central Committee of the Taiwan Alliance, the Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference and the All-China Federation of Taiwan Affairs, and undertaken by Xinyang Municipal People's Government, the Taiwan Affairs Office of Henan Province, the Overseas Chinese Federation of Henan Province and the People's Government of Gushi County, was grandly opened in the Roots Culture Park Square of Gushi County. Qiao Wei, Vice Chairman of China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Long Mingbiao, Assistant Director of Taiwan Affairs Office of the Central Committee and Taiwan Affairs Office, Huang Jinhua, Assistant Chairman of China Federation of Taiwan Affairs, Wang Tie, Vice Governor of Henan Province, Deng Yongjian, Vice Chairman of Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Guo Ruimin, Secretary of Xinyang Municipal Committee, Chen Yi, Vice Chairman of the Ninth Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference and Executive Vice President of Heluo Culture Research Association, attended the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony was attended by 10 politicians, scholars, clansmen, cultural celebrities, journalists representing business elites, and 1000 people from Taiwan Province, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as Fujian, Zhejiang and Beijing.

On the basis of the previous three sessions, this year's Roots-Seeking Cultural Festival highlights the feelings of ancestors and pays more attention to economic and social benefits. The root-seeking festival lasts for three days, and its main activities include: the opening ceremony, cultural exchange activities between Fujian and Wang on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the first Dabie Mountain Green Agricultural Products Fair, the fifth seminar on the relationship between the Central Plains (Gushi) and Fujian and Taiwan, the signing and achievement exhibition of investment promotion projects in cultural festivals, the discussion and creative exchange of ancient root-seeking calligraphy and painting between Fujian and Taiwan, and the grand prize of root-seeking cultural and artistic creation. Among them, the first Dabie Mountain Green Agricultural Products Fair mainly exhibited green agricultural products in Dabie Mountain, attracting nearly 100 agricultural enterprises and more than 200 factory representatives from 36 counties and districts in Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces 12 to Gushi for exhibition, visit, exchange and cooperation, which became the biggest highlight of this root culture festival.