This summit is one of the side events of the 7th “Maritime Silk Road” (Fuzhou) International Tourism Festival. Experts and scholors in cultural tourism, including Mr. HE Guangye, President of Asia Pacific Tourism Federation, Mr. YAO Jun, President of China Tourist Attractions Association, Mr. CHEN Dong, Secretary General of World Tourism Cities Federation, delivered speeches on topics, such as the integrated development of cultural tourism industires under the Belt and Road Initiative, the measures for high-quality joint contribution to the MSR.

The Summit witnessed the release of “2021 MSR (Fuzhou) Declaration”, which put forward specific 7 points for high-quality joint contribution to the MSR cultural tourism:

Our Expectation:

To be more proactive in integrating into the development of the "21st-Century Maritime Silk Road", by consolidating existing foundations of cooperation and development, focusing on new areas for development, seeking new points of convergence, and comprehensively improving the level of cultural tourism cooperation with countries and regions along the MSR.

Our Persistence：

To jointly create a high-level platform for the "21st-Century Maritime Silk Road" industrial cooperation, by accelerating the formation of a new cultural tourism pattern featuring openness, cooperation, and innovation for all.

Our Appeal:

To align the cultural tourism industry with the need of the new era, by innovatively optimizing cultural tourism products through integration with cultural elements, encouraginig new business forms, models, and technologies, and steadily expanding areas of cooperation for shared development. To solidify the foundation for the high-quality development of the MSR cultural tourism through connectivity, coordination, joint contribution and win-win cooperation.

Our Emphasis:

To deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, for the formation of a paradigm of diversified interaction. To activate and strengthen the cultural features in cultural tourism resources, and enhance the depth and breadth of integration of culture and tourism, with view of meeting people’s needs in cultural life and expanding opening up to a high level.

Our Advocation:

To let the high-quality joint contribution to the MSR better serve the well-being of people, by culsulting for the formation of the blueprint of MSR cultural tourism cooperation, continuously expanding the "circle of friends" of MSR, creating the leading city for cooperation of the Silk Road cultural tourism, and providing Chinese solutions of the oriental wisdom.

Our Endeavor:

To transform accomplishment of the “Maritime Silk Road” (Fuzhou) Cultural and Tourism Cooperation Summit by innovating and learning from each other’s strengths and experience, with the goal of high-standard and sustainable development for people’s well-being, in order to contribute to the high-quality joint construction of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”.

Our Vision:

To join hands with cultural tourism counterparts in countries and regions along the MSR, for building the paths of peace, prosperity, openness, environmental protection, innovation, and civilization, with view of achieving extensive cooperation, massive development and great prosperity in the tourism industry of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road.