Panshan Mountain in Tianjin opens with a grand ceremony

After months of winter closure, Panshan Mountain in Tianjin's Jizhou district reopened on Friday, welcoming visitors with a grand mountain-opening festival. The district is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of tourists during the upcoming Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, holiday.

Jizhou district has unveiled 16 spring tourism activities across four themes — spring outings, spring sightseeing, spring entertainment, and spring competitions, according to Song Weilong, head of the district's culture and tourism bureau. Three spring flower-viewing routes have been designed, featuring 15 attractions to meet the travel needs of families and self-driving visitors.

"The 21-year legacy has made the Panshan Mountain festival a highly influential cultural tourism brand in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. This year's event not only preserves traditions and heritage but also introduces new business forms and expands scenarios — a vivid practice of cultural tourism collaboration within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region," Rong Zucheng, chairman of Tianjin Yuyang Ecological Construction Development Co, said.