Nearly 60 foreign experts, students, expatriates, and media representatives from countries including Italy, the United Kingdom, and Australia visited Jinghai district, Tianjin, on April 29, as part of the Exploring Tianjin cultural exchange series.
Against the backdrop of integrating culture, business, tourism and sports in a bid to boost consumption, Tianjin, a northern port city in China, is set to accelerate its transformation over the next five years into a distinctive cultural tourism destination and an international consumption hub, officials said.
The 10th World Youth Wushu Championships had barely concluded in Tianjin recently when a makeshift game broke out on an outdoor basketball court. There was no ball, so a group of teenagers from four different continents chased an empty plastic water bottle instead.
With a record 12.7 million graduates expected this year, China is placing greater emphasis on early career planning and aligning academic training with industry demand to improve employment outcomes, experts have said.
At the third High-Level Conference of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development held in Beijing on April 22, Tefera Derbew Yimam, Ethiopia's ambassador to China, praised the Luban Workshop as one of Tianjin's most innovative contributions to cooperation on international development.
Officials and entrepreneurs from China and the Canadian province of Alberta explored cooperation in green and low-carbon development during a visit this month by Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack to Tianjin and Wuhan, Hubei province, focusing on sustainable industries, logistics and carbon governance.