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Hundreds of visitors from Singapore toured Yantai， a coastal city in East China's Shandong province on April II to explore its wineculture and scenery.

Zhang Bo， deputy director of the Yantai culture and tourism bureau， attended the welcoming ceremony and delivered a speech.

He noted that Yantai and Singapore have become important tourist destinations for each other over the years and have increasinglyclose cooperation and tourism exchanges.

Particularly， the opening of Yantai-Singapore tourism routes has provided more convenience for mutual communication in tourism，he added.

On the morning of April II the group visited the Changyu Wine Culture Museum to get to know the history of Yantai wine. Yantai isan ideal wine production area due to its coastline's ideal sand.

The city was the birthplace of China's first wine estate， Changyu Pioneer Wine Co， which was founded by diplomat Zhang Bishi in1892.

Changyu is one of the world's largest wine producers. The intemational wine town based in Yantai can fill up t0 25，000 bottles ofwine per hour， thanks to its imported world-level automatic production lines.

Laiyang pear blossoms festivalunveiled

The 2019 Laiyang Pear Blossoms Festival is underway from April 13 to April 23 in Laiyang， East China's Shandongprovince， offering splendid views of pear blossoms.

Laiyang， a county-level city in Yantai， is famed in China for its sweet juicy pears and has held the pear blossom festival for28 years. The annual festival has become an important way for Laiyang to promote its pear culture and featured products.

This year's festival， with a theme of "enjoy pear blossoms and explore dinosaurs" is an importance part of the 2019 YantaiCitizens Cultural Festival and has prepared various cultural activities.