Ancient Capital Kaifeng Impresses the World with Brand-new Image

Kaifeng is old, but boasts fascinating cultural charm in each brick and tile; Kaifeng is new, filled with innovative vitality brought by reform and opening-up.

City view of Kaifeng (Photo: An Honghai)

As one of China’s eight ancient capitals and among the first batch of national historic and cultural cities, Kaifeng enjoys a city history of over 4,100 years as well as rich and profound cultural resources. It has fostered and, in return, got nourished at the same time by the long-standing Song Dynasty culture, the Yellow River Culture standing for courage and persistence, diversified folk customs, and intangible culture regarding garden, food and traditional Chinese opera.

Millennium City Park (Photo: Kang Tai)

In recent years, Kaifeng City prioritizes the culture and tourism integrated development, to develop and expand the Song Capital Ancient City Cultural Industry Park, and has made more efforts to ensure major projects of ancient city protection and culture & tourism. It has held national cultural festivals such as Qingming Cultural Festival and Chrysanthemum Culture Festival; new urban landscape includes Kaifeng City Planning Museum, the museum, the art museum, the library and the cultural center.

Night Fair of Kaifeng Drum Tower (Photo: Sun Haikun)

Kaifeng City has dug deep the Song Culture to transform the profound history to cultural productive forces; by revitalizing the City Wall Culture, Bianhe River Culture, Millennium Medial Axis Culture to make the cultural relics alive, the city fully showcases its amazing energy as a historic and cultural city; it also builds the international cultural trade and cultural tourism cooperation platform for Free Trade Zones. Since 2019, Kaifeng City has carried out 23 major culture & tourism projects, covering eight categories of cultural venues, cultural relics and sites protection, scenic area reconstruction and expansion, etc., with total investment of 119.8 billion yuan.

Overseas Students Are Visiting the Pilot Free Trade Zone (Photo: Fu Rui)

Featuring a perfect mix of classic and modern as well as a win-win development of economy and culture, Kaifeng City, known for its time-honored history, is going global with new charm.