With the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, around the corner, tourists are trying their hand at making New Year woodblock paintings at a folk culture center in Yangliuqing Township, north China's Tianjin Municipality.
"Many tourists have a natural affinity for Yangliuqing woodblock paintings. I've heard many visitors from Beijing and Hebei say that their families had the tradition of putting up such paintings when they were little," said Xia Ting, head of the tourism distribution center in Tianjin's Xiqing District.
"Tourists from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region accounted for about 70% of the total number of tourists we received last year," Xia said.
More than 100 million people live in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, which boasts rich and profound cultural and tourism resources. In 2014, a national strategy proposed the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and since then, Beijing, Tianjin and neighboring Hebei Province have cooperated on boosting their cultural and tourism development.
Data from China Tourism Academy shows that Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei are among each other's top sources of tourists in 2023. Among the tourists received by Tianjin, those from Hebei and Beijing hold the top two rankings, accounting for 49.1% of the total number of tourists from outside of Tianjin. Hebei and Beijing were the top two destinations for tourists from Tianjin, and they made up 52.7% of the total out-of-town trips made by Tianjin's tourists.
