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 Light of Internet Expo opened in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Thursday as part of the 2025 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit, with dazzling displays of cutting-edge technologies and the latest examples of industrial achievements.

The expo features seven themed exhibition areas that bring together thousands of AI-related innovations from 600 companies worldwide.

One of the highlights this year is the brand-new "Super Experience Hall", where visitors can watch humanoid robots compete in boxing matches, enjoy performances by a robot band, and even operate robots themselves in immersive training sessions.

The expo serves as a prelude to the 2025 WIC Wuzhen Summit, which will officially open on Friday and run through Sunday.

As a beacon for global internet development, the summit has once again drawn worldwide attention, with frontier technologies, breakthrough innovations, and industry leaders converging in the ancient water town.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace. Following this guiding theme, the summit features 24 parallel forums focusing on AI, technological innovation, and international cooperation, with newly introduced topics designed to break industry barriers and encourage deeper exchanges of insights across different industries.

In particular, a special event spotlighting Hangzhou's "six elite companies," a cohort of tech startups including Unitree Robotics, a pioneer in humanoid robot development, and DeepSeek, the rising star in artificial intelligence (AI), is scheduled to be held for the first time during the summit on Friday, which will focus on cross-disciplinary discussions on AI and robotics.

Light of Internet Expo opens in Zhejiang