Speech at the International Tourism Development Forum

Speech at the International Tourism Development Forum Dear leaders, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends,

In this beautiful autumn season, the first China Western International Tourism Development Forum jointly organized by China National Tourism Administration and Sichuan Province was grandly opened. We are very happy to meet with leaders, guests and friends in the magical Jiuzhai to discuss the development plan of western tourism cooperation and look forward to the bright future of western tourism in the century. This is a great event in the history of Sichuan tourism development, and also a landmark event in the history of western tourism development. We believe that the success of the forum will have a great and far-reaching impact on the tourism industry in the western region and inject new vitality into the prosperity of the western region. Here, on behalf of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Congress, Provincial Government and CPPCC, I would like to express my warm congratulations on the convening of the forum! I would like to extend my sincere welcome to all the guests attending the forum!

As we all know, the development of tourism in western China has extremely rich and unique resource advantages. The west is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Yellow River, covering 20 provinces and cities, covering an area of 1 10,000 square kilometers, accounting for% of the country's total population, and is the main birthplace of the Chinese nation. In the long historical process, it has formed a magnificent natural landscape, accumulated a long and profound cultural heritage, and continued the quaint and rich ethnic customs. It is known as the "World Museum of Nature" and the "World Museum of History and Culture". Since the reform and opening up, especially since the development of the western region, the tourism industry in the western region has developed by leaps and bounds. In the past, the total tourism revenue in the western region exceeded 100 million, accounting for about one-third of the total tourism revenue in the country. But generally speaking, the development level of western tourism is commensurate with the special position of our own resource advantages. How to transform resource advantages into economic advantages faster, better realize the transformation of tourism resources into tourism capital, and accelerate the development of tourism has become a major practical issue that we are concerned about.

With the acceleration of regional economic integration, regional tourism cooperation has become a major trend of tourism development. In order to adapt to this trend, China successfully held the Boao Forum for Asia Tourism and the "+"ASEAN Special Meeting of China, Japan and Korea Tourism Ministers in Guilin and Beijing in XX and XX respectively, which played a great role in promoting Asian tourism cooperation and realizing the same journey. Domestic cross-regional tourism cooperation has also begun, and the Yangtze River Delta has established a "+"barrier-free tourism circle; Hubei and Chongqing integrate the tourism resources in the Three Gorges area and build a "Three Gorges Barrier-free Tourism Economic Cooperation Zone"; Pan-Pearl River Delta tourism cooperation has taken substantial steps, opening a new chapter in domestic tourism regional cooperation.

The western provinces and cities are geographically connected, with their own characteristics and related interests. Under the background of deepening regional cooperation in tourism, it is the general trend to comprehensively strengthen tourism cooperation in the western region, and it is also the only way to realize the rapid development of tourism economy in the western region. Strengthening tourism cooperation in the west is not only conducive to giving full play to the comparative advantages of western tourism resources and forming complementary and coordinated development, but also conducive to optimizing and integrating western resources and enhancing overall strength and competitiveness; It is not only conducive to the development of tourism between the western regions, but also to the interaction and exchange with the eastern tourism market, as well as to improving the level of opening up and accelerating the pace of integration with the international tourism market. At the same time, it also creates conditions and paves the way for the western tourism industry to face various opportunities and challenges in the future development.

We are glad to see that tourism cooperation in the western region has begun to take shape. At the end of May this year, Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet reached an important understanding on the project of jointly building "Shangri-La Eco-tourism Zone in China" and established a set of cooperative operation mechanism. Tibet, Qinghai and Dunhuang in Gansu announced the official launch of regional tourism cooperation to jointly shape the overall image of China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau tourism. These explorations and attempts have played a leading and exemplary role in promoting comprehensive tourism cooperation in the western region. At the same time, it also fully shows that strengthening regional cooperation in tourism has become a common understanding and concerted action of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the west. All-round cooperation in western tourism is like an arrow on the string and has to be made. ,