Distinguished Mr. Dominique de Villepin, leaders and guests,

Good morning!

Guizhou greets honorable guests with its beautiful scenary, while Guiyang lying in the middle of Guizhou, is a blessed land for talents and development. On the occasion of the inauguration of the headquarters building of the International Mountain Tourism Alliance (IMTA), entrusted by Zhao Deming, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Guiyang Municipal Committee, on behalf of the CPC Guiyang Municipal Committee and the Guiyang Municipal People's Government, I would like to extend warm welcome to you, extend sincere congratulations on the inauguration of the IMTA headquarters building, and express heartfelt thanks to all walks of life for their permanent attention to Guiyang's development!

As a modern travel mode, mountain tourism has enjoyed growing popularity in recent years. According to statistics released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, mountain tourism currently accounts for 20 percent of global tourism and is growing year by year. China is a mountainous country. Guizhou is well known, beautiful and valuable for mountains. With mountains and hills accounting for 92.5 percent of Guizhou's total area, Guizhou is reputed as a "mountain kingdom". In recent years, under the strong leadership of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and the Guizhou Provincial People's Government, with the attention and support of relevant state ministries and commissions, Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, has kept in mind General Secretary's entrustment, stuck to two bottom lines: development and ecology, brought its ecological advantage into full play, gone all out to advance the building of a national all-for-one tourism demonstration zone, and sped up the building of a world-renowned tourism city featuring ecology. In the first three quarters of this year, Guizhou registered 194 million tourists and total tourism revenues of 246.623 billion yuan, up 20.1 percent and 28.2 percent respectively. The sustained blowout growth of tourism has become an important support for the high-quality development of Guiyang's economy.

The inauguration of the IMTA headquarters building today will boost the integration of Guizhou and Guiyang into the great family of world mountain tourism, promote tourism resource and tourism market sharing, further enhance the opening degree and international influence of Guizhou and Guiyang, and attract more domestic and foreign tourists to travel in Guizhou to experience its unique charm. Hopefully IMTA will continue to exert its industrial advantage, vigorously promote Guizhou and Guiyang, and advance local tourism resource development, tourism market promotion and tourism brand building, in an effort to make "colorful Guizhou" and "cool Guiyang" well known in the world. As the seat of the IMTA headquarters, Guiyang will make all-out efforts to serve the better development of IMTA in Guiyang.

To conclude, I wish IMTA great prosperity, wish the 2019 Annual Conference of IMTA a complete success, and wish you good health and all the best !

Thank you!