BEIJING, July 31,
2024 /CNW/ -- Quanzhou City in southeast China's Fujian
Province has recently held a launching ceremony for the
application to become a Creative City of Gastronomy in the Creative
Cities Network of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to
promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified
creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development.
It encourages cities to choose one of the seven creative fields to
apply for: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy,
Literature, Media Arts, and Music. Currently, there are ten cities
selected as the Creative City of Gastronomy globally, including six
from China.
Quanzhou City issued a work plan in June this year proposing to
highlight the positive role of delicacies in expanding domestic
demand, integrating industries, boosting consumption, driving
employment, and improving people's lives, and work all out to build
itself into a Creative City of Gastronomy based on the overall plan
of two-year preparation, four-year application, and six-year
creation.
The city has great confidence in achieving the goal as it boasts
a long history, a rich culture, abundant marine fishery resources,
and a food and beverage output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, with GI (Geographical
Indication) agricultural and aquatic products such as Anxi Tie Guan
Yin (Anxi oolong tea) and Yongchun vinegar renowned both home and
abroad, and extended business models such as wholesale of aquatic
products and prefabricated dishes flourishing.
Data showed the city now owns 100,347 various types of catering
market entities, ranking first in Fujian province, and it has abundant overseas
Chinese resources and chamber of commerce resources, and broad
delicacy exchange channels, creating solid foundation and unique
advantages for itself to become a Creative City of Gastronomy.
At the launching ceremony, Quanzhou invited 22 expert
consultants to provide professional intellectual support for the
application work.
It has also introduced a special work plan putting forward to
constantly enhance the development foundation for the delicacy
industry by combining the application work, including making
catering market entities exceed 150,000 by 2027, nurturing ten
leading catering enterprises each with an annual sales exceeding
100 million yuan, building 20 streets
of characteristic delicacies, etc.
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