Mayor to build Guilin into ideal tourist city

City to embrace innovation, sustainable development, links with Bay Area

Guilin, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, will put more effort into innovation-driven and green development to build itself into a world-class tourist city, according to Mayor Li Chu.

He said the city will also concentrate on developing "new quality productive forces" and accelerate the building of a modern industrial system to pursue quality development.

Innovation is one of the most important driving forces for development, and the formation and development of new quality productive forces cannot be achieved without continuous technological innovation and scientific advancement, said Li, who is also a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress.