Heze Dedicates to City Branding as Hometown of Four Traditions

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Heze has an old name - Caozhou, as known in a poem that says "Caozhou produces the best peonies in China". Heze grows 486,000 mu (32,400 hectares) of peonies, which is about 60 percent of all the peonies growing in China.

Heze is known as the Museum and Exhibit of Chinese Operas. Heze has more than 100 members of the Chinese Artists Association and the Chinese Calligraphers Association. Over 300,000 people in Heze regularly take part in martial arts activities. Heze registered over 70 million words of recorded folk tales, folk songs, ballads, folk proverbs and folk customs. Among its peer cities, Heze is the third-largest owner of national intangible cultural heritages that is recognized by the Chinese government.

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