The signing of CEPA and the to-be-built Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Bridge provide an excellent opportunity for the take-off of Jiangmen, mid-south of Guangdong, the No. 1 Overseas Chinese Hometown in China.

The Third (2003) China Overseas Chinese Hometown (Jiangmen) Tourist Festival will be held ceremoniously in Jiangmen's Enping City, the Country of China hot spring on November 25th, according to a press conference held on Wednesday (November 19th).

According to He Xiansong, vice mayor of Jiangmen City, this tourist festival aims to promote tourism, to speed up the infrastructure construction, to strengthen the ties between home and abroad, as well as to improve the investing environment of the city.

Jiangmen is striving to build up a famous tourist resort of the world, he says, and this festival is to mainly highlight hot spring resources of the city.

The main activities in the festival include: 2003 Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Hometown Art Festival, 2003 Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Hometown Food Festival, traveling around the overseas Chinese hometowns, investing environment introduction conference, etc.

(Newsgd.com November 2, 2003)