Guests from Expo2010 visit Ziyang Street,Taizhou and appreciate the unique style and feature of this ancient street.(Photography by Fang Pei)
On the occasion of the sucessful ending of the World Expo2010 Shanghai China, Taizhou Municipal Government, together with Shanghai Coordination Bureau of World Expo Affairs, Jointly hold "Taizhou Friendship Day". The delegation group including 46 representatives of Expo 2010 participants from 32 countries, regions and international organizations visited Taizhou of Zhejiang Province on October 21-22, 2010.
Located on the east coast of China and the South wing of Yangtze Delta Economic region, Taizhou is the birthplace which joint stock cooperative system came out in China. Today it's also a city which secondly realized normal transportation with Taiwan. The flexible economic system gives the private economy of Taizhou a strong competitiveness and a special developing mode.So far, Taizhou has been awarded "the excellent innovational city of China","the best Commercial city of China","the Financial ecology city of China","the top 12 Brand-oriented economy cities of China" and "the Experimental city for National Intellectual Property Right."
Taizhou is an important Manufaturing base in Yangtze Delta Economic region. Today Taizhou has owned more than 20 economic or industry clusters whose annual tunover reached dozens of billion yuan, and has formed several dominating industry suach as automobile and motorcycle, phamaceutical and chemical, sewing machines , household electrical applicances, plastic mould and ship manufacturing. In Taizhou there are 30 enterpises whose annual production value reach 1 billion yuan, and 22 listed companies go public, and 78 industrial products occupy the largest domestic marketshare in China.
Guests visit Wuzixiong Glass Art Gallery, experiencing how the ice-cold glass become alive endowed with the creativity of art..(Photography by Fang Pei)
Taizhou is also proud of its long history and splendid civilization. It is an excellent tourism city in China. It has been awarded "the top 10 cities with most happiness" and "the top 10 livealbe cities" in China. Taizhou is famous for its mountains and sea. It has a winding coastline, magnificent mountains and beautiful landscape. On the first day of the trip, the guests from Expo2010 visited the Chiangnan Great Wall ,by which Ming Dynasty great soldier Qi Jiguang resisted the Japanese pirate. Then visited Ziyang Street and appreciated the unique style and feature of this ancient street. On that evening, guests visited Wuzixiong Glass Art Gallery, experiencing how the ice-cold glass become alive endowed with the creativity of art. On the second day, our guests enjoyed picking orange in the farm and then visited Guoqin Temple, the holy land of Tiantai Sect in Chineses Buddhism which attacts thousands of overseas buddists every year.
Guests visit Guoqin Temple,the holy land of Tiantai Sect in Chineses Buddhism .(Photography by Fang Pei)
This is the last station of the series event of Expo "Friendship Day", all the participants happily shared cultural experiences, renewed friendship and discussed possibilities of new cooperation in those cities.
By Fang Pei