Tourists flocked to the Dounan Flower Market in southwest China's Yunnan Province during the National Day Holiday which kicked off on Tuesday.
The Dounan Flower Market is the largest fresh-cut flower market in Asia and the second largest worldwide. It sells over 1,600 varieties of fresh-cut flowers under 117 categories.
Wearing flower crowns and holding bunches of flowers, tens of thousands of tourists across the country are wandering in this colorful market to pick the flowers they like.
"It's the first time for me to see such a large flower market. It's so magnificent!" said a tourist surnamed Liu from Shanghai.
The number of people visiting flower market on the first day of the seven-day holiday has climbed to nearly 500,000, driving up sales of flowers.
"The number of visitors come to my stall has soared since the beginning of the National Day Holiday as the sales jump," said Jin Taiyu, a seller at the flower market.
Sales of the stall would usually triple to about 20,000 yuan (around 2,837.04 U.S. dollars) per day during the holidays like the National Day Holiday, Jin said.
Flower companies in Yunnan are taking this opportunity by designing new flower-related products to captivate more customers.
In a flower company in Yunnan, employees are arranging special flower bouquets, which are smaller than the usual ones to ensure customers can carry them more easily.
Other flower-related products including preserved fresh flowers, known for their longevity compared to fresh blooms, are accessible for tourists visiting famous tourist destinations in Yunnan, so that they can buy them as souvenirs.
Flower market in China’s Yunnan sees booming business during National Day Holiday
The Taiwan question concerns China's core interests and constitutes the biggest risk in China-U.S. relations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday when speaking to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the phone.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, noted that the U.S. side should honor its commitments and make the right choices, opening new space for China-U.S. cooperation and doing its part to promote world peace.
Head-of-state diplomacy has always been the "anchor" of China-U.S. relations, Wang said.
Noting that bilateral ties have generally remained stable under the strategic guidance of Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump, Wang said it serves the fundamental interests of both peoples and meets the common expectations of the international community.
Both sides should safeguard the hard-won stability, prepare well for key high-level interaction agendas, expand areas of cooperation, manage differences, explore building a China-U.S. relationship that is strategic, constructive and stable, and achieve mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation.
For his part, Rubio said that the U.S.-China relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, and head-of-state diplomacy is at the core of the relationship.
Both sides should maintain communication and coordination, respect each other, properly handle differences, accumulate achievements for high-level interactions between the United States and China, and seek strategic stability in U.S.-China relations, said Rubio.
The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East, among others.
Taiwan question constitutes biggest risk in China-US relations: Chinese FM
