On March 27, Zhao Kebin, Executive Vice President of Shanghai Academy, and his party conducted a research assessment on national conditions in Ningxia. The guests were also invited to participate in the project startup and expert consultation meeting of "Ningxia Tourism and Targeted Poverty Alleviation" program. This meeting aims to discuss the sustainable development path of all-for-one tourism, discover key and difficult problems in the development of cultural tourism, and poverty alleviation with tourism, and conduct an in-depth study for the "Ningxia path" of cultural tourism and targeted poverty alleviation.

Zhao Kebin and Zhang Lian, President of Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences delivered speeches for such main topics as “Ningxia tourism, government public investment and public service supply in Ningxia”, “Ningxia's cultural industry and cultural resources”, “rural tourism and rural revitalization in Ningxia” and the “tourism poverty alleviation model and mechanism in Ningxia”.

This research laid a firm foundation and provided powerful support for Shanghai Academy to strengthen communications and cooperation with central and western areas ofChina. At the same time, it further promoted the popularity and influence of Shanghai Academy nationwide. Xiong Hou, Director of Research Division of Shanghai Academy, Yu Shuchang, Deputy Director of Ningxia Tourism Development Committee, Zhang Yu, Researcher of Planning and Development Department of Ningxia Tourism Development Committee, Yu Dengbo, Researcher of Regional Department of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission, Sun Zhijuan, Deputy Researcher of the Social Affairs Department of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission, Liu Yuhua, Deputy Head of Cultural Industry Department of Culture Division of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and more than 10 experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences, Beifang University of Nationalities and Ningxia Tourism Investment Group attended this meeting.

(By Research Division)