The Minister of Culture is due to launch a year of cultural actions involving the two countries on Wednesday. Demonstrations whose aim is to revive tourism at half mast since Covid.

In Harbin, the largest city in northern China, since January 5, a giant reproduction of Notre-Dame has been lit up in the evening next to an equally cold and colorful copy of the Temple of Heaven. There, the vast operation of binational cultural diplomacy began. This is the objective of the Franco-Chinese Year of Cultural Tourism, intensification of the announced program of events in 2019.