Dai Bin | Nine-color Gannan Shambhala, suitable for both tourism and investment

On August 31, the 20th Jiuse Gannan Shangbala Tourism Art Festival opened in Dangzhou Grassland. President Dai Bin was invited to attend the series of activities of the art festival and delivered a speech at the main conference of "Private Enterprises in Gannan". The full text is as follows:

Nine-color Gannan Shambhala, tourism and investment are both suitable - Nine-color Gannan Shambhala Art Festival and "Private Enterprises Entering Gannan" Promotion Speech (August 31, 2020, Gansu) Dai Bin, President of China Tourism Research Institute

Dear Vice Chairman Gao Yunlong of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Dear Secretary Lin Duo of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, Secretary Yu Chenghui of the Gannan Prefecture Party Committee, Governor Zhao Lingyun, Dear leaders, comrades, and friends,

During this trip to Gansu, friends with rich travel experience envied me: Oh, the place where the Yellow River bends for the first time, and the vast Norgay grassland, must go to Labrang Monastery to turn around those long prayer wheels, go to Langmu Monastery to see those misty forests, and Gangjia Secret Realm, Yeli Pass, Zhagana... at least stay for ten days and a half. Some friends also asked: Where is Gannan, is it the abbreviation of southern Gansu? Oh, it’s the place where snow flies in August, be sure to bring down jackets, instant noodles, and other daily necessities, bring as many as you can. My friends from the China Tourism Research Institute and Mafengwo Tourism Big Data Laboratory told me that in the second quarter of 2020, the Tourism Asset Index (TPI) report showed that Gannan was selected in the top 20 cities and prefectures in the country and the top 10 cities in the northwest region, ranking 16th in the country, and it is the only prefecture-level city in Gansu on the list. Data shows that this is an emerging niche tourist destination with increasing attention and search volume. Tibetan culture, pilgrimage, exploration, self-driving and customization are the main labels. Data is boring, and culture is the power that touches people's hearts. Thanks to the invitation of Ma Tingli, Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, I have the opportunity to set foot on this land again and get in touch with the culture here. I am also willing to share my feelings about this trip with friends at home and abroad, and I am more willing to ask comrades how to talk about Gannan.

Please tell me about the nine-color Gannan, and also tell me about the plain Gannan. There are red Tibetan buildings, monks in red, Danxia landforms and red grasslands, orange coral beads symbolizing wealth, purple Bodhi and life fruit, yellow sect monk hats, Gongtang pagodas, Maqu gold, deep blue skies and lakes, green grasslands and forests, Ani Nianqing, black yaks and oil, and white snow lotus. Such beautiful mountains, rivers, forests and grasses, such rich products, and splendid culture are the best interpretation of "Shambhala" in Tibetan. When I came here for the first time in 2018, the most impressive thing was that the provincial party committee and government implemented network management of sanitation and cleaning throughout the territory. Whether it was scenic spots, communities, streets or roads, no garbage could be seen. After coming here two years later, I was even more respectful of the experience of building an "ecologically civilized well-off village" in the 40 years of reform and opening up: Shambhala is right in front of me, but it is not a gift from the gods and emperors, but the result of the joint efforts of people of all ethnic groups in the prefecture under the overall leadership of the party. This feeling is so deep that for a long time when I think of Gannan, the image I have of it is of a bare face.

Some people say that the best tourist season in Gannan is July, August and September, the so-called tourist peak season. In my opinion, every season in Gannan is unique and every inch of land is beautiful. As long as you like it, you don't have to care about the season, let alone come for a certain color. In autumn, the blue sky and yellow leaves, in winter, the continuous ice and snow, are all excellent. The world is so big, and life is limited. No matter how crazy you check in, it is impossible to exhaust all the scenery, let alone experience all the prosperity. It is better to take a scoop of water from the three thousand rivers. Some people say that Gannan, when thinking of you, is the nine-colored Shambhala; when seeing you, it is the plain human world, which is very good.

Please tell me about Gannan on the other side, and also tell me about Gannan on this side. History and culture can make people yearn for it, religious beliefs can inspire respect, and the mundane world will make people feel close, participate and share. Tourism is a way of life that will last forever, and it is also a national right that needs to be protected by the government. It is a sense of family and country, and it is also mundane world. Through tourism, "let the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books come alive", which is the requirement of the General Secretary and our common responsibility. Gannan has many cultural relics and religious sites. Labrang Monastery, known as the "World Tibetan Studies House", is one of the six major monasteries of the Gepa School of Tibetan Buddhism. In its heyday, there were more than 4,000 monks and more than 65,000 scriptures in existence. Many people know it because of the movie "A World Without Thieves". The heroine played by Rene Liu worshipped three times for her pregnant children, which attracted countless milk tea fans to visit again and again. The documentary "Xuanzang's Journey" which was popular ten years ago also made the audience become supporters of Gannan tourism in the process of learning history and understanding culture. Whether it is the soft dance at the Xianglang Festival or the hand-pulled mutton and barley wine in the Tibetan homestay, they are all beautiful imaginations of Gannan by tourists from other places, and they are also tangible and real life. Secretary Lin said that the Tibetan homestays in Boyu Village, Zhuoni County, can make money without going out, and can receive hundreds of tourists on weekends. Today, more than 1,500 ecologically civilized well-off villages have become a new space for a better life shared by hosts and guests. "Guarding the beautiful scenery and living a poor life" is gone forever! Against the sacred background of the afterlife, tourists from afar and local residents enjoy the prosperity of this life. Such a space and such a scene is the Shambhala that thousands of tourists yearn for and are close to.

Please tell me about the history of Gannan and the future of Gannan. As early as the Neolithic Age, there were traces of human activities in the basins of the Three Rivers and One River. In the Qin Dynasty, parts of Gannan were under the jurisdiction of Lintao, and there has been a history of political, economic and cultural exchanges recorded in writing since then. As one of the Tang-Tibetan Ancient Road and one of the four major tea-horse stations on the Southern Silk Road, Lintan County and Hezuo City still have traces of their past, and these historical cultures are valuable resources that can be used for tourism. We must also see that with the maturity of national tourism experience, tourists in a well-off society will certainly go to foreign countries to pay tribute to the past memories, but are more willing to feel the beauty of current life and the future that can be expected. Last night, there was a 5-kilometer-long 100-caravan carnival, a night tour of Hezuo with lights on, and big data, drones, low-altitude flights, and hot air balloons that lead the future. A Gannan full of vitality and infinite vitality slowly unfolded before us. It is the smiles of the three armies after the fierce battle of Lazikou, it is the unbridled singing of people of all ethnic groups at the Lotus Mountain Flower Festival, it is the smiles blooming at the Chaoshui Festival in Heishuigou, it connects the vicissitudes of the past, and it opens a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. This kind of Gannan is the Gannan where people live and work in peace and contentment, and it is also the Gannan where tourists flock to.

Dear leaders, comrades, and friends,

I am very pleased to see that the provincial party committee and government, the state party committee and government have made cultural undertakings, cultural industries and tourism the leading industries for the decisive battle against poverty and the building of a well-off society in an all-round way, and have made tourism development the key target of investment promotion projects. After 40 years of development, my country has shifted from inbound tourism to national tourism, and has developed from a country with a large number of tourism resources to a country with a large number of tourism. In the next five to fifteen years, we will continue to promote the integrated development of culture and tourism, promote the high-quality development of the tourism industry, and build a tourism power for well-off tourism. In this process, we need to build a number of world-class tourist destinations like Gannan. This is a systematic project that requires professional image construction and market promotion, the planning and development of natural resources and historical and cultural resources, a sound transportation network, infrastructure, public services, industrial policies and industry supervision, high-quality living scenes, and professional tourism reception, service and operation agencies. In order to adapt to the multiple superpositions of tourism consumption, industrial capital and information technology, and fully protect the people's cultural rights and tourism rights, governments at all levels in provinces, cities, states and counties should adhere to the new development concept of tourists-oriented and host-guest shared, coordinate tourism development with cultural construction, ecological protection, new urbanization, and new rural construction, and plan and promote high-quality development of the tourism industry from a high starting point.

With the growth of tourists and the acceleration of the construction of tourist destinations, especially the continuous optimization of the business environment, Gannan's tourism development is ushering in an unprecedented strategic opportunity period. As Secretary Lin Duo said at the meeting yesterday, "It is the right time for tourism enterprises and cultural enterprises to come to Gannan now. There is a lot to do. You bring your projects, and we will do the rest. Even if you don't have a project, you can still make friends." Today's participants are all private enterprises with investment strength and operation capabilities. Many members of the All-China Tourism Chamber of Commerce and the All-China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce are mainly engaged in tourism, hotels, and theme parks, including Spring Travel Group and Jingyu Lvmama Group, which are among the top 20 Chinese tourism groups, as well as large enterprises such as Yuexing Group, JuneYao Group, and Yilian Holdings, which have strategically deployed the tourism industry. According to Chairman Wang Yu, among all airlines arriving and transiting at airports in Gansu Province, Spring Airlines has ranked first. I hope that next time I come to Gannan, I can take Spring Airlines' flight to land at Xiahe Airport. I hope that travel agencies such as Qiongyou, Mafengwo, and Lvmama will come to Gannan for inspection and launch more and better creative promotion activities, tourist routes and customized projects. I hope that hotel investors and brand operators such as Kaiyuan, Fosun, Home Inns, and Hanting will come here to start adapting to the accommodation products of the new era of well-off tourism and provide convenient, efficient and high-quality accommodation services for tourists. I hope that more tourism destination marketing agencies, travel agencies, online travel agents, vertical media, advertisers and community platforms will pay more attention to Gannan, so that more people can understand Gannan, like Gannan, and be willing to visit Gannan.

Judging from the existing network data, the top ten provinces that pay attention to and search for Gannan are Gansu, Shaanxi, Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, Zhejiang and Shandong, mainly people aged 20-39. They are experienced in travel and are willing to spend time and money to explore niche tourist destinations with historical accumulation and different cultures. my country is about to build a well-off society in an all-round way. Tourism has become an increasingly rigid demand for the people's better life, and the pace of Chinese people's travel will be farther and farther. It is expected that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", my country's tourism industry will form a super market with tens of billions of people and ten trillion consumption. At that time, tens of millions of tourists from inside and outside the province, at home and abroad will come here, and they will fall in love with this land and the people on the land like me.

The event is about to end, see you again: Nine colors of Gannan, happy even without makeup.