LOUDI, China, Sept 17 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — The 2025 “Ziquejie Terraced Fields in Dialogue with the World” — the 3rd Agricultural Cultural Exchange and Mutual Learning Conference and the 9th Agricultural Heritage Conference — opened in Xinhua County, Loudi City on Friday. Approximately 200 participants attended the event, including representatives from global and national important agricultural cultural heritage sites, as well as domestic and foreign experts and scholars in related fields, all joining hands to map out a blueprint for cultural and tourism development.
Lasting for 3 days, the conference takes “Re-empowering Living Agricultural Heritage, Innovating the Inheritance of Agricultural Civilization, and Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Development” as its theme. It includes sessions such as keynote speeches, conference reports, parallel forums, terraced field inspections, and tourism promotion meetings. The aim is to build a high-standard, international dialogue platform to jointly explore paths for the protection and inheritance of agricultural cultural heritage, share the wisdom of terraced field farming, and work together to create a bright future for sustainable development.