Tass
Date: 29 AUG, 09:19
HAIKOU, August 29. /TASS/. The Hainan Province and the Chinese island of Taiwan are ready to boost cooperation in joint projects concerning garden tourism — a form of recreation with field trips and visiting tropical plantations and rural households, www.hinews.cn reported.
In order to promote such projects, the authorities of Haikou (the administrative center of Hainan) held a special seminar on the prospects of enhancing the contacts in this area between Taipei and the Hainan Free Trade Port.
"Our task is to promote the development of garden tourism and at the same time speed up the establishment of the Hainan free trade zone, to strengthen the integration of Taiwan with mainland China," said Li Yuefeng, First Deputy Chairman of the Taiwan Democratic Autonomy League. According to him, the time has come to translate joint experience into practice.
As the seminar participants noted, garden tourism will become one of the effective tools to combat poverty in the region, as it will bring significant additional income to the owners of agricultural enterprises. It is anticipated that the influx of funding will serve to develop rural infrastructure. It is planned to involve leading experts in promoting bilateral projects with Taiwan, which will ensure the implementation of tourism projects at a fundamentally new qualitative level. [FULL STORY]