On March 6th, 2023, Bai Le Baer, Israeli Consul General in Shanghai, Xu Junjie, Director of the Political and Economic Affairs Department, and Hui Wenqi, Director of the Cultural and Education Department, and his party visited the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. Xu Peng, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and First Class Inspector, met with the delegation.
Bai Le Baer said that Israel attaches great importance to cultural tourism exchanges and cooperation with China, and hopes that after the opening of group tours, more Zhejiang tourists can be invited to Israel to experience the unique charm of an ancient civilization. At the same time, I also hope that famous Israeli dance artists and music art groups will have the opportunity to hold performances in Zhejiang. In November this year, it coincided with the holding of a national cultural exhibition in Israel, and Zhejiang was sincerely invited to participate in it to further deepen exchanges and cooperation in the humanities field between the two places.
Xu Peng extended a warm welcome to Ravit Baer and his party for their visit. He pointed out that Israel has a long history and rich cultural heritage, and has much in common with Zhejiang, a major economic and tourism province, which is a good foundation for cooperation between the two sides.
Encourage cultural centers, museums and other institutions in the two places to establish a normalized cooperation mechanism to continuously improve the quality and level of exchanges and cooperation in academic and professional fields. Zhejiang will give strong support to Israeli tourism promotion activities in Zhejiang. Zhejiang will spare no effort to promote cooperation with Israel in cultural exchanges, art exhibitions, tourism promotion, etc., promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the two countries, achieve win-win development of tourism, and jointly contribute to the sustained and healthy development of China-Israel relations.