An annual peach blossom festival is expected to start in the city of Nyingchi, Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, on March 27, an official said Thursday.
This year’s festival will feature wild peach groves, performances and a fireworks display, Yu Xiaojuan, deputy head of Nyingchi’s tourism development bureau, said at a meeting for promoting the festival.
The activities will help build Nyingchi into an international ecological tourist destination and improve the economic, cultural and social benefits of the city’s tourism industry, Yu said.
“Tourism has become a distinctive…