On August 30th, the "Guangzhou Through the Millennia: Academic Symposium Marking 2,240 Years Since the City's Founding and 1,800 Years of Its Name" was held at the Guangzhou Museum of Art, systematically decoding the evolutionary logic of Guangzhou's civilization over the past two millennia.

How to expand traditional festivals beyond family reunion settings and into broader public cultural spaces has become a key issue in the integrated development of culture, commerce, and tourism.

On Aug 29th, the new Huanggang Port conducted its fourth large-scale drill with about 20,000 civil servants taking part. The exercise simulated peak passenger flows on a larger scale to test the port's capabilities in inspection, evacuation and traffic management.