Southeast Asia bamboo culture showcased in Nansha

The opening ceremony of the 3rd Guangzhou Nansha Southeast Asia Bamboo Arts Festival is held at Nansha Bird Park in Guangzhou on Dec 19. [Photo/WeChat account: NanshaBirdPark]

The opening ceremony of the 3rd Guangzhou Nansha Southeast Asia Bamboo Arts Festival was held at Nansha Bird Park in Guangzhou on Dec 19.

The festival is expected to become a communication platform for culture, tourism, economic, and trade among Nansha, ASEAN countries, the African Union and South Pacific island countries.

Attendees of the ceremony included Natenapa Kongsri, consul general of Thailand in Guangzhou, Yok Yee Chan, consul general of Fiji in Shanghai, and Nipatsorn Kampa, deputy consul general of Thailand in Guangzhou.

Duan Dehai, director of department of publicity of CPC Nansha district committee, noted that Nansha has been enhancing its cooperation with ASEAN countries since 2018 and that it has organized a series of activities like the bamboo arts festival, introducing elements from Southeast Asia, such as its bamboo culture, distinctive products, cultural creativity, and innovative design, to Nansha.

Fiji signed an agreement to set up its national pavilion in Nansha Bird Park on the same day, aiming to further promote the country's cultural arts and local products to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The awards ceremony of the 2020 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and ASEAN International Colleges Design and Construction Competition was also held. The competition, which started in July this year, has gathered nearly 400 universities in the Greater Bay Area and Southeast Asia to compete, with a total of 16 teams making the final.