BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Three foreign friends from Austria were invited to visit Junan County in Linyi city of east China's Shandong province last Sunday to feel the local tradition, history and culture as well as the new development model of modern enterprise.
In Junan Handmade Exhibition Center, three foreign friends learned to write Chinese calligraphy and draw Chinese paintings under the guidance of local artists. They also experienced the making of clay tigers and appreciated the intangible cultural heritage works such as boxwood carvings, feeling the profound connotation of excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Junan County is known as the land of peanuts in China. During the tour, the Austrian experts visited the Jinsheng Group, a local enterprise which operates in multiple fields, including oil peanut, biotechnology, foreign trade, catering, tourism, e-commerce, logistics and ecological agriculture.
They visited the Jinsheng Peanut Culture Museum, e-commerce center, research and testing center and the group's Peanut Wisdom Factory, which all reflect the high-quality development of Junan peanut industry.
As a county with long-standing history and culture and a superior geographical location, Junan enjoys broad prospects for development. In the future, Junan will further deepen its opening-up to the outside world, strengthen foreign cooperation and exchanges to show the charm of Junan and promote the high-quality development of local industries.
(Edited by Gao Jingyan with Xinhua Silk Road, gaojingyan@xinhua.org)
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