International liquor and acrobatics festival opens in Guizhou

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 ◆ International liquor and acrobatics festival opens in Guizhou

The China International Liquor Festival opens on August 18 in Zunyi, southwest China's Guizhou Province.

It is jointly sponsored by the China Federation of Light Industries and the provincial government of Guizhou.

The province has its national brand of distilled spirit Maotai,as famous as France's brandy, Britain's whisky and Russia's vodka.

During the festival, the four international distilled spirits' producers will hold an international spirit forum to discuss closer exchanges and cooperation between China and other world famous spirits producers.

The festival has also attracted other domestic and foreign liquor producers, such the United States, Denmark, Italy and Japan.

The 2002 International Acrobatics Festival opens on August 18 in Zunyi, southwest China's Guizhou Province.

The festival has attracted 41 acrobatic troupes and circuses from home and foreign countries like Cuba, Russia, France, Canada and the United States.

Zunyi has begun to boom as an acrobatic city.

The festival is to close on August 24.