China News Service, Libo, Guizhou, September 28 (Zeng Qinan) "I like Guizhou very much, and living there for even a month is not enough." Muhammad Obidov, chairman of the Fergana Oblast Journalists Association of Uzbekistan, said "I envy life in Guizhou" and won a round of applause.
At the 2026 Colorful Guizhou·19th China Original Ecological International Photography Exhibition’s Travel and Residence Roundtable Dialogue held on the evening of the 28th, Obidov suggested that Guizhou should promote more cultural and tourism resources in Russian-speaking countries. Uzbek tourists are very willing to travel to Guizhou.
Long Cong, vice chairman and general manager of Guizhou Tourism Industry Development Group, responded that the Russian version of Guizhou’s cultural tourism promotional video was launched in September, and plans to launch more languages in the future to increase cultural and tourism promotion efforts and continue to build the brand of “Living in Guizhou, life is more colorful”.
This event invited more than 20 domestic and foreign photographers, media, and representatives of cultural and tourism companies to gather in Hongjiang Village, Libo County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, using images as a link to focus on "from 'tourism transit' to 'living life' - the tourism industry. On topics such as "Guizhou Practice and Regional Cooperation" and "The Traffic Code of 'Performance' and 'Competition' - Exploration of Paths for the Integration of Culture, Tourism, Sports and Business to Drive Urban Consumption Upgrade", we discussed the opportunities and challenges of the tourism industry, and explored the practical path for transforming "traffic" into "retention".
"Guizhou continues to gain public love, not just from the traffic of short-lived Internet celebrities, but from the spread of images that have been deeply cultivated in the local area for the past two decades. Colorful Guizhou·China's Original Ecology International Photography Exhibition is the best 'converter'." Cui Bo, director of the Chinese Photographers Association, member of the curatorial committee, and director of the Fujian Huaguang Photographic Art Museum, said that the exhibition builds a virtuous cycle in which "images attract people, people activate space, space nourishes life, and life breeds more beautiful images." Art ultimately settles on living life, the lens is just a recording tool, and life itself rooted in the local area is eternal.
Madieva Elmira Zhumagulovna, director of the Information Bureau and chief expert of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Youth Policy of Kyrgyzstan, said frankly that Kyrgyzstan and Guizhou are both mountainous areas with unique natural ecology and diverse ethnic cultures. She looks forward to using light and shadow as a bridge and culture as a medium to deepen exchanges and cooperation between the two places, starting from youth exchanges, and promoting the transformation of cultural and tourism transit "flow" into long-term "retention" of in-depth travel.
Participants said that the roundtable dialogue went beyond the scope of a mere art exhibition and combined lens language, industrial practice, and real-life issues to contribute practical ideas that can be used for reference in the development of mountain tourism. It also built a bridge for cultural and tourism exchanges at home and abroad, promoted mutual learning and mutual learning of transnational living experiences, and promoted the iterative upgrade of cultural tourism from short-term sightseeing to a deeply symbiotic living life. (over)
