More and more tourists are embarking on flower-viewing trips across China, making the most of the year's prime time to appreciate blossoms.
Bougainvillea in Baise City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is in full bloom. As a seasonal tradition, local residents dressed up in ethnic costumes sing folk songs, attracting many tourists to join in.
"There are so many beautiful flowers here. I came specially for the sea of flowers here," said Huang Yixiang, a tourist.
The China National Botanical Garden in Beijing also draws many people for spring outings and flower viewing.
The garden's low-temperature greenhouse displays more than 500 plant species, including begonias, ferns, and carnivorous plants.
In north China's Hebei Province, a section of the Great Wall in Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County has been receiving a great number of tourists.
Apricot blossoms blanket the mountain slopes on both sides of the Great Wall, presenting a breathtakingly beautiful scene.
In northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, wild tulips have been blooming in the vast grasslands of Xinyuan County in the eastern part of the Ili River Valley.
Wild tulips are one of the iconic early-spring plants in the valley. They bloom fully every year in early April after being nourished by spring rains.
Spring flower-viewing trips boom
The Global Partnership for Poverty Alleviation and Development (GPPAD) was officially launched on Wednesday at the ongoing 2026 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum in Beijing, according to an announcement made at the event.
Jointly initiated by China, 53 other countries, and nine international organizations, the GPPAD marks a milestone in global poverty-reduction efforts, the announcement said.
While encouraging members to pursue poverty-reduction and development strategies suited to their own conditions, the GPPAD will promote exchanges of experience in poverty reduction and governance, and jointly explore pathways to eradicate poverty at its roots, according to the announcement.
The partnership welcomes the participation of governments, international organizations, the private sector, academia and media institutions, to foster a fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory and sustainable development environment together, the announcement added.
Speaking at the forum, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong said that China will support the GPPAD in strengthening policy dialogue, technical demonstrations and talent training, to help developing countries build stronger poverty-reduction capacity.
Scholars and government officials hailed the importance of this global effort in reducing poverty.
"Today, you have the opportunity of countries coming together to say, in a way we failed, but we don't have to. We can work together through partnership to address issues that collectively as a globe, we said we would do eight years ago, whatever it is, 10 years ago, but have not done so. So it's importance is this opportunity, this celebration of working together, we can really achieve things," said Robert Walker, Professor of the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Beijing Normal University, who is also an Emeritus Fellow at Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.
"Within this platform, we will have access to more knowledge, partnerships, and economic and social cooperation, allowing us to learn from the experience of China and other countries, so that we can accelerate the pace and make the commitment. The problem of poverty is a global problem for humanity, so the strategies for reducing it must also be global strategies, concerted strategies, that allow, first, to end hunger, drastically reducing the level of poverty by 2030," said Salimo Ismael Vala, Minister of Planning and Development of Mozambique.
Global partnership launched in Beijing to fight poverty, promote development
