The International Grape and Wine Industry Conference and the 3rd China (Ningxia) International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo will be held in Yinchuan, Ningxia from June 9 to 10, 2023. This is China's first national and international comprehensive exhibition with the theme of wine, which will be attended by more than 1,200 guests, including ministers of agriculture from 47 major wine-producing countries and heads of 9 international wine and related organizations.
The world's major wine regions competed to participate
**In 2020, the general secretary inspected and investigated the grape plantations at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, and placed high hopes on Ningxia wine to lead Chinese wine to "surprise the world". Ningxia is also a comprehensive pilot zone for the opening up and development of the national grape and wine industry.
At a press conference held in Beijing on May 23, Lei Dongsheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Secretary-General of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, introduced that the International Grape and Wine Industry Conference and the 3rd China (Ningxia) International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo were organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the people of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region** Co-sponsored, it is a professional expo for the world, full of international elements, more than 1,200 guests from 47 major wine-producing countries in the world, envoys to China, and heads of 9 international wine and related organizations. The theme of the conference is "Nature, Innovation, Culture and Ecology", and 12 important activities will be held, including the opening ceremony, industry summit, parallel forum, Sino-French wine culture and tourism forum, and investment conference.
Lei Dongsheng introduced that the world's major wine producing regions are competing to participate in this conference, and world-renowned wineries, leading wine merchants, and authoritative wine coffee will gather in Ningxia. At that time, visiting the expo is like visiting the world's major wine regions, feeling the customs of various countries and tasting all kinds of fine wines. More than 2,000 products from more than 100 well-known wine companies in 12 major producing areas in China were unveiled, showing the charm of Chinese wine to the world.
Ningxia's wine production accounts for nearly 40% of the country's total
The International Congress of the Grape and Wine Industry was initiated by China and will be held in China for the first time. Why did the high-end international event in the field of wine settle in Ningxia?The total area of wine grape cultivation in Ningxia is 5830,000 acres, more than 1 3 in the country, with an annual output of 1 wine3.8 billion bottles, accounting for nearly 40% of the country. Lei Dongsheng revealed that according to the plan, the scale of Ningxia wine production area will be expanded to 1 million mu in the future, with an annual output of 300 million bottles. The industry unanimously believes that "the future of Chinese wine is in Ningxia", and Ningxia has put forward the goal and vision of building a world "wine capital", which has been widely recognized by the country and the industry.
The wines produced in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia have won awards in top international wine competitions such as Brussels and Paris, which are due to their unique quality and flavor. Lei Dongsheng introduced that Ningxia wine terroir is good, and the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain are recognized as "first-class production areas" in the world; Grape vine planting techniques and field management have distinctive regional characteristics, such as grape vine burial in winter, vine development in spring, grape vine tilt on the shelf at 45 degrees, and "factory" shape pruning and vine pruning. There are also technological innovations, such as the use of "respirators" on oak barrels, which promote the ripening of wines by expelling carbon dioxide, resulting in higher quality and more aromatic wines.
Cui Mingfeng, second-level inspector of the Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said that the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia have attracted more and more domestic and foreign tourists and wine lovers in recent years. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism will continue to work with the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to organize the Wine Culture and Tourism Expo. "Under the framework of inbound tourism promotion brand, the brand image of Ningxia as the "World Wine Capital" will be promoted through a variety of channels, and Ningxia will be supported to further tell the story of good wine, so that Ningxia wine can go out of Ningxia and go to the world, and make positive contributions to promoting multi-level, multi-field and multi-channel cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the "Belt and Road" countries.
*: Beijing client.