Four Chinese villages listed among UN Tourism's 2025 "Best Tourism Villages"

Four Chinese villages were listed in the UN Tourism's 2025 edition of "Best Tourism Villages," according to announcements made at a UN Tourism awards ceremony on Friday in Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province.

The four listed villages are Digang in Zhejiang, Jikayi in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dongluo, which is administered by Taizhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province, and Huanggang in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province.

With these four villages, China now boasts a total of 19 "Best Tourism Villages" as recognized by the UN Tourism, with 15 other Chinese villages listed over previous years.

Digang Village, with its serene landscapes, traditional architecture, and vibrant natural scenery, preserves the world's most complete mulberry-based fish pond system and gave birth to China's sericulture and silk-weaving techniques.

Jikayi, which is situated on a high-altitude plateau, is celebrated for its biodiversity and multiethnic heritage that includes the Tibetan, Qiang and Yi ethnic groups.

Nestled within the core area of the Xinghua Duotian Agrosystem, a recognized World Heritage Irrigation Structure, the picturesque Dongluo Village is home to a water forest and a scenic area of rapeseed flowers, featuring grid-patterned raised fields along rivers and lakes.

Huanggang Village preserves and carries forward the thousand-year-old production and lifestyle traditions of the Dong ethnic group. It also serves as a living repository of the Dong people's ancient rice–fish–duck symbiotic farming system.

According to a Ministry of Culture and Tourism official in charge of application work for the award, the four newly selected villages reflect the comprehensive, diversified development of China's rural tourism sector.

UN Tourism's continuous recognition of China's rural destinations attests to the exemplary work of China's rural tourism industry, and to global acclaim for the drastic changes taking place in rural China.

Four Chinese villages listed among UN Tourism's 2025 "Best Tourism Villages"

The UN must resolutely defend the victorious outcomes of World War II and reject any attempt to revive militarism, said China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sun Lei on Thursday. 

Sun made the remarks to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), following UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who addressed the meeting on priorities for 2026.

Guterres emphasized the three principles that guide the world body's work in 2026: adherence to the UN Charter, peace with justice -- peace between nations and peace with nature, and unity in an age of division.

All nations must resolutely uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, said Sun.

"The UN must resolutely defend the victorious outcomes of World War II and uphold the post-war international order, firmly oppose unilateralism and hegemony, and reject any attempt to revive militarism," he said.

The Chinese envoy said countries must advance the three pillars in a balanced manner.

"Peace and security, development, and human rights are mutually reinforcing, and none should be neglected," he said.

He also stressed reforming and improving global governance. 

"China will work with all parties to firmly support multilateralism and the international system with the UN at its core, maintain peace, promote development, and advance the building of a community with a shared future for humanity," said Sun.

UN must resolutely defend victorious outcomes of World War II: Chinese envoy