"Tonight, the global audience could 'travel' in Liangjiang New Area through our live streaming on the internet. We'll take them to experience new local urban styles and enjoy new landscapes of this open, fashionable smart city in Chongqing." The special live streaming of Liangjiang New Area for the large-scale cultural tourism promotion activity "Chongqing Showcase" was broadcast on multiple platforms on August 13. This activity was staged to promote "high-quality tourism products and cultural and creative products".

Wang Zhijie serves as Deputy Secretary of the Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Party Working Committee, Executive Deputy Director the Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee. He walked into the live streaming room and took netizens on a "journey of opening-up, wisdom, and culture" by means of VCR and live-action presentation at a virtual studio and other methods. The beauty of ecology, culture, fashion, opening-up, and wisdom of Liangjiang New Area were all presented to netizens.

"Opening-up is a predestined cultural element for Liangjiang New Area. The Silk Road met the Yangtze River here, China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone and China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity gathered here, global talented people are working here and high and new technologies are applied here. The area is also developing new industries, new economies, and new forms of business, and it makes open, ecological, and innovative systems thrive here. Its high-quality opening-up has created high-quality fashionable life while facilitating industrial development and upgrading." During the live streaming, Wang took netizens to "visit" Lianglu-Cuntan Free Trade Port Area, Guoyuan Port, and other opening-up platforms of Liangjiang New Area. Netizens also saw the logistic routes that lead to the whole world by virtue of "rail, water, road, and air" multimodal transport. Besides, they experienced the joy of selecting and buying global products at the "Belt and Road" Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center.

By means of VCR, netizens are able to appreciate beautiful clouds, get a bird's-eye view of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, and get a sweeping view of Liangjiang International Film City and Jihua Park. In addition, they had a panoramic view of the rippling Mingyue Lake and Yulin River as well as the beautiful scenery of Liangjiang New Area. It was such a "journey of opening-up" for netizens without going outside!

"Wisdom empowers the city's economy and enriches people's life." Internet users saw the new way of smart life in Liangjiang New Area through live streaming, and the scenes of future life filled with a sense of science and technology became within reach. "Liangjiang New Area boasts smart factories, smart communities, smart stores, and smart education. As a smart city, it has made all aspects of production and life smart, thus striving for a better life in the future," introduced Wang.

Three selected tourist routes launched

During the live streaming, Wang recommended three high-quality tourist routes, namely the journey of opening-up, the journey of wisdom, and the journey of culture. Global tourists were cordially invited to visit Liangjiang New Area and purchase goods from all over the world there.

The journey of opening-up:

Route: Guoyuan Port — Lianglu-Cuntan Free Trade Port Area — Yuelai Exhibition & Convention City

With the successive running of trains of China Railway Express (Yuxinou) and New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor at Guoyuan Port, some products that used to be available only abroad, such as Malaysian instant bird's nest, Japanese Imabari Towel products, and Italian red wine, are now available in Liangjiang New Area.

The journey of wisdom:

Route: Lijia Smart Park — Chongqing Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone — Liangjiang Robot Exhibition Center — Chongqing Liangjiang Aviation and Aerospace Industrial Park

Liangjiang New Area has become smart in all aspects of production and life. It owns smart factories, smart communities, smart stores, and smart education, all of which will make a contribution to the area, thus creating a better life in the future. Chongqing is the permanent site for Smart China Expo (SCE), and Lijia Smart Park has introduced a large number of intelligent experience projects from SCE to make itself a smart stage that will exist forever. Besides lucid rippling waters and lush mountains, the park also created a variety of smart experience scenarios, with one technology being applied to each scenario. When experiencing these scenarios featuring new smart lifestyles, citizens may feel as if they were living in the future.

Liangjiang New Area oozes with smart elements: Intelligent cars could realize man-machine interaction in various scenarios; intelligent access control has functions like face recognition; intelligent windows could block out the sunlight and cool indoor areas.

The journey of culture:

Sightseeing route: Yuelai Riverside Park — Jinhaiwan Riverside Park — Jiuqu River Wetland Park — Dazhulin sightseeing ferry

Fashion experiencing route: Chongqing Happy Valley — Jinshan Yiku Cultural and Creative Park — Jihua Park

The sightseeing route allows tourists to enjoy the most beautiful scenes of Jialing River and along its riverside in Liangjiang New Area.

The second route offers visitors an opportunity to experience fashionable life in this area. This route features a romantic ferris wheel, the exciting roller coaster, and other activities at Chongqing Happy Valley, where tourists will feel happy easily. Jinshan Yiku Cultural and Creative Park is a place integrating romance, fashion, and the feeling of literature and art. Jihua Park possesses a large indoor ski resort, and it also allows citizens to experience exciting extreme sports such as rock climbing, wind tunnel, and surfing.