[Video/WeChat account: hezewhly]

The 29th International Peony Cultural Tourism Festival is in full swing in Heze, the "peony capital of China".

Chen Qiang, director of the city's publicity department, promoted the city's peony industry to the world through the "China Recommendation" program.

The video has been released on domestic and foreign media outlets and social media platforms including Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, NAVER, Yahoo Japan, Vimeo, Tumblr, Niconico and Dailymotion.

Heze has a long history of cultivating peonies and is home to more than 1,200 varieties of the flower. It has developed into the country's largest base for peony cultivation, research, sale and export. It now has 8,000 hectares of peony plantation area. Its flowers are sold in more than 100 cities in China and some 20 countries.

The "China Recommendation" program, jointly launched by several media outlets, is a series of videos highlighting the unique characteristics of China's different cities.