Guangdong Airport Authority signed a memorandum of cooperation on Sept 16 at the 24th World Route Development Forum with seven airlines including China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Siberia Airlines.
9月16日，广东机场管理局在第24届世界航路发展论坛上与中国南方航空、中国东方航空、埃塞俄比亚航空、西伯利亚航空等7家航空公司签署了协议。
Cantonese Opera shows are put on stage at the promotion event on Sept 16. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
High-quality international routes
高质量的国际航线
In the future, they are hoping to jointly open a number of high-quality international routes to cities such as Madrid in Spain, Milan in Italy, St. Petersburg in Russia and Islamabad in Pakistan.
未来，他们希望共同开通一些高质量的国际航线，比如西班牙的马德里、意大利的米兰、俄罗斯的圣彼得堡和巴基斯坦的伊斯兰堡。
A raft of activities regulation
大量的活动
After the opening ceremony of the forum, a raft of activities were organized to showcase Cantonese food, music, culture and local intangible cultural heritages such as olive kernel carving, Guangxiu embroidery and Guangcai ceramics.
论坛开幕式后，还组织了一系列活动，展示粤菜、音乐、文化以及橄榄仁雕刻、光绣、光彩陶瓷等当地非物质文化遗产。
An inheritor shows her Guangxiu embroidery techniques at the promotion event held after the opening ceremony of the 24th World Route Development Forum on Sept 16. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Guangzhou
广州
The activities were held to promote Guangzhou to the participants. Baiyun Airport looks set to continue as Guangdong’s largest airport, with Shenzhen seeing around 45 million passengers in 2017.
活动旨在向参加者宣传广州。2017年深圳机场的客流量将达到4500万人次，白云机场有望继续成为广东省最大的机场。
Expats enjoy Cantonese delicacy on Sept 16 at the promotion event. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Guangzhou is just the third Chinese city to hold the World Route Development Forum after Beijing and Shanghai and just the 24th city in the world to host the prestigious event.
广州是继北京和上海之后第三个举办世界航路发展论坛的中国城市，也是全球第24个举办世界航路发展论坛的城市。