The Seychelles embassy in China has signed an agreement with the China International Friendship and Cultural Friendship Festival organisers to host the event.

The agreement, signed by the Seychelles resident ambassador to China, Philippe Le Gall, promises a programme that will include an exhibition of Seychellois painters, musical performances, an exhibition of Chinese paper cut works inspired by Seychelles’ landscapes, monuments and flora & fauna.

There will also be an exhibition of pictures taken at the time of the Festival Kreol 2011 by a group of 10 Chinese photographers headed by the vice-chairman of China Photographers’ Association, Wang Yue, who will be attending this year’s event.

This special cultural week on Seychelles, the first to be organised in China, will also focus on Seychelles business and investment opportunities, and coincide with activities to promote Seychelles as the best Indian Ocean tourism destination.

Under this agreement, two or three business delegations of up to 20 Chinese representatives from a number of sectors, in particular tourism, agriculture, food processing, construction, media, environment protection, and amusement parks, are also expected to visit Seychelles between June and December 2011.
 
The signing between Mr Le Gall and secretary general Yong An Cui was also attended by the Seychelles Tourism Board’s regional director for Asia and Australasia, Myrna Michel, as well as the newly appointed tourism attaché working at the embassy in Beijing, Jean-Luc Lai Lam.