MCT Briefing: Poetry Festival and Peking Opera Festival to Highlight Culture-Tourism Integration

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism held its third-quarter 2026 routine press briefing in Beijing on September 20 to present preparations for the 8th China Poetry Festival and the 11th China Peking Opera Festival. The poetry festival runs October 12-23 in Taizhou, Zhejiang, under the theme 'Poetry Surging from Mountains and Seas, Poetic China'; the Peking Opera festival runs October 15-November 5 in Wuhan, Hubei, with seven main activity strands. Both events emphasize culture-tourism integration, with poetry-route itineraries, public-benefit performances and intangible-heritage experiences.