TRACING HAKKA CULTURE AT LONGNAN CITY

Longnan World Hakka Folk Culture City has opened to visitors.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 (Bernama) -- The 32nd World Hakka Conference (WHC) kicked off recently in Longnan City, China, gathered around 2,500 guests from over 200 Hakka communities (including overseas Hakka groups), representatives of Hakka people and well-known entrepreneurs to share the cultural feast.

At the conference, Jiangxi Longnan implemented a number of cultural activities and projects with strong Hakka characteristics to a high standard, allowing its people to come to seek roots, worship ancestors, travel, exchange and cooperate, as well as further promote Hakka spirit and its culture.

Themed "Hakka from five continents and four seas share the same dialect and homesickness", the conference, first held in 1971, is one of the most influential Chinese events in the world, whereby this traditional event has continued for 52 years.

During the opening ceremony, scientific and technological means are used to display various art forms, in addition to integration of singing, dancing, folk customs, multimedia image interaction, Hakka music, Hakka intangible cultural heritage and other expression techniques into one to tell a glorious epic of Hakka people, bringing a shocking audio-visual cultural feast to the audience.

According to the Information Office of Ganzhou Municipal People's Government in a statement, in recent years, Longnan has focused on the goal of "double hundred and double thousand".

It strives to be the top 100 national economic development zones, the top 100 national investment competitiveness, the per capita industrial tax of over US$1,000 and the first industrial revenue of the park of over 100 billion Chinese yuan. (US$1=RM4.72)

Many projects have been carried out in addition to paying great attention to investment promotion and promoted industrial development, as well as maintaining the growth rate of Longnan's main economic indicators in Ganzhou's "first phalanx".

-- BERNAMA