CHONGQING, China, Sept 24 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — Featuring touching natural beauty and radiating prosperity, the Rongchang District in west China’s Chongqing Municipality held a livestreaming promotion campaign as part of the 2020 Chongqing Showcase on Sept. 21. Livestreamed on over ten online platforms, the promotion featured rich local tourism and cultural products, gaining over 16.68 million views and 1,558,500 likes, according to the Publicity Department of Rongchang District.
The 2020 Chongqing Showcase is a large-scale cultural tourism promotion activity guided by the local government and widely participated by the society. Rongchang District of Chongqing is located at the junction of Sichuan and Chongqing. It was called Changzhou in ancient times and nicknamed a kingdom of cherry-apple trees. It was an important gathering place for a major immigration campaign in the Qing Dynasty and is known as “Living Fossil of Hakka Culture”. Rongchang, together with Foshan in Guangdong and Yixing in Jiangsu, is known as China’s three great pottery towns. Rongchang pottery is as famous as Jianshui pottery, Qinzhou pottery and Yixing pottery, which make up “China’s Four Best Potteries”. Rongchang folding fan, Suzhou silk fan and Hangzhou calligraphy and painting fan are also called “China’s Three Best Fans. The Xia cloth, one kind of hand woven linen, has been a traditional craft for thousands of years.