The first anhui funan liuwei art festival concluded successfully

On May 9, the first two days of the first anhui fuyanliu arts festival closed. The wicker arts festival, the association of Chinese arts and crafts funan county awarded the honorary title of "China's township" wicker, 10 foreign merchants and the relevant departments to county signed the agreement of 280 million yuan of investment projects, greatly enhance the FuNa visibility and reputation of wicker.

Funanliu weaving process has been passed down from generation to generation since Ming and qing dynasties, which was listed in the non-material cultural heritage of anhui province in 2007. Funan county in recent years, the wicker as a pillar industry to grasp, achieved significant results, the purple willow plant area of 80000 mu, more than 70 export-oriented wicker companies to drive more than 90000 people engaged in the wicker production management, product has more than 20 series of thousands of varieties, more than 90% products are exported to 56 countries and regions. In 2008, operating income exceeded 1.1 billion yuan, and the export revenue was nearly $23 million.

The theme of this activity in funan county is "to highlight the artistic charm of willow and promote the development of county economy". 60 wicker artists carried out the field weaving skills competition, and carried out the intangible cultural heritage and the display of willow weaving skills. Funan county won the "China wicker of the township" reputation, have a truly belong to own "national singles", wicker for ascension process, strengthen wicker industries, to speed up agricultural and rural economic structure strategic adjustment rushes out a new road.