In 2026, the "15th Five-Year Plan" kicks off. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council attach great importance to expanding service consumption and support the cultivation of distinctive and high-quality catering and accommodation brands. This food festival is one of the consumption promotion activities of the "Chinese Cuisine Culture Season" organized by the Ministry of Commerce in 2026, and it has been included in the annual activity projects of the "Food Lover Season" food quality improvement and demand expansion work by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Liu Xiaoyuan, the deputy director of the Publicity Department of Foshan Nanhai District Committee and the director of the District Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau, presented a comprehensive overview of the unique charm of this blessed land with the theme of "Be Bold and Lead the Way". He shared his insights with the guests present. The 1,000-year-old circular agriculture in Nanhai's Sangyuanwei has nurtured countless high-quality food products. The food and health care industry cluster has a combined output value of over 80 billion yuan. Every three shrimp dumplings in the country have two produced in Nanhai. Leading enterprises such as Hai Tianwei and He Shi Fisheries are setting the trend for the industry. As the birthplace of two of the top private banquets in Cantonese cuisine, Nanhai has given birth to legendary dishes like Tan Family Cuisine and Taishi Family Banquet. It has also set new standards for dining with the world's largest Cantonese seafood restaurant and the first group standard for dragon boat rice. Cultural and tourism landmarks such as Xiqiao Mountain, Guangdong Ancient Story, and the Guangdong Nanhai Land Art Festival complement each other, creating a comprehensive tourism and leisure landscape of "daytime exploration and nighttime entertainment". From the thousand-year fish ponds to the modern dining tables, Nanhai can both preserve traditions and come up with new ideas. Nanhai's seafood is fresh, there are delicious foods everywhere, and the vitality is boundless. This investment hotspot is sincerely inviting businesspeople from all over the world to taste the Nanhai flavor and create a future dream together.
During the food festival, a series of consumption promotion activities were carried out simultaneously throughout the Nanhai area. The traditional and intangible cultural heritage food market brought together representative national brands and intangible cultural heritage inheritors from Fujian, such as Tongli Meat Dumplings, Li Liangui Smoked Meat Pancake, Shengzhou Xiaolongbao, Donglaishun, Xi'an Restaurant, Wangzhihe, Lvyouju, and Qingfeng Baozi. Ten thousand people participated in the consumption week of Nanhai's Cantonese tea snacks, which linked together 10 catering brands and multiple stores of 10 other brands such as Shuangxi, Juhao Restaurant, and Wangge Fishing Village. The various towns and streets in Nanhai collaborated to create a "10+N" characteristic activity matrix, including Michelin-starred restaurants like Xindouji, Longhua Teahouse, and Table38, German Beer Festival, providing diverse consumption options for citizens and tourists. A series of online and offline benefit activities made the food festival a "massive carnival".
