Located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, Zhangye is a historic city with religion, ethnic, and Silk Road culture. It boasts over 1,270 pieces of immovable cultural relics, and more than 34,000 pieces in the museum collection, all of which display features from different times.

At the opening ceremony, together with Mayor Huang Zeyuan, representatives from 18 countries and regions such as Russia, Ukraine, Bahrain, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Nepal, jointly released a declaration on Silk Road tourism cooperation.

Li Liangyi, chairman of China Express Travel, said the Silk Road economic belt, put forward by President Xi Jinping, garnered widespread attention from overseas, among overseas Chinese in particular.

He also said that he would organize more visitors from Singapore and Southeast Asia to travel to Gansu and help promote Silk Road tourism. Liu Weiping, governor of Gansu, said that this ancient Silk Road in Gansu extended over 1,600 km, and was known as “the great canal of the world’s culture”.

Consequently, Gansu would, by bringing into play its advantages in traffic, culture, resources and industry, build three strategic platforms—Lanzhou new area, Dunhuang international cultural tourism city and China Silk Road expo—to establish a Gansu golden area in the Silk Road economic belt.

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