On the date of April 12th, Chinese Qingdao Pictures Exhibition named “Xinhua Gallery” which jointly organized by Qingdao Municipal Government and Xinhua News Agency was held in Brazil Rio de Janeiro city. Some of the foreign students who pay attention to the news when they study Mandarin Chinese in China may know this exhibition was warmly welcomed by the local citizens. Through this pictures exhibition, the people in Rio de Janeiro will have a better understanding on Qingdao city.
The photos exhibition show the Brazil community the beautiful Chinese coastal city of Qingdao though more than 40 pictures which introduce the natural scenery and cultural landscape un Qingdao as well as the large activities such as sailing competition, beer festival and world horticultural exposition and so on. As one of the series activities of Xinhua Gallery in Brazil, this pictures exhibition was held in Santos Dumeng Airport, which has passenger flow of more than eight million each year, making sure the communication effect of the photos exhibition.
It is said that many tourists stop to carefully watch the pictures one the day of the opening ceremony. Many people took out their cameras to take photos with those exhibits. If you learn Chinese online free, you must have heard that the principle of Qingdao city of this exhibition Wang Wei gave a comprehensive and systematical introduction to the city. According to him, Qingdao is making efforts to prepare for the 2014 world horticultural exposition. At present, there are 13 foreign cities confirmed to participate in Qingdao International Horticultural Exposition.
Wang Wei also expressed his hope that Brazil and other countries in South America to take part in this exposition actively. The director general of Rio de Janeiro Tourism Bureau attended to the photos exhibition and said that this photos exhibition provided Brazil a window to know more about Qingdao city, Chinese cities as well as the tourism in China. Even though Qingdao and Rio de Janeiro have a far distance, many similarities create the advantages to cooperate in tourism in the future.
The pictures show the changes taken place in Qingdao in recent years. As the costal cities with beautiful scenery, Qingdao and Rio de Janeiro have expecting prospect in corporation in tourism. Students who attend to one-on-one Chinese learning programs may be told that many traditional pieces of music were played o the opening ceremony.