Day: December 30, 2022

LIUZHOU, China, Dec. 30, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– “In front of the Po’e Mountain, the jade-like river water flows to the east, and a literatus is standing at the bow in the distance.” (by Liu Zongyuan, Tang Dynasty, The Reply to Cao Shiyu’s Letter When He Passing Xiangxian County). Under the Po’e Mountain, the millennial ancient town and white sand with snail is the cultural tourist IP newly cultivated in Yufeng District, Liuzhou City. As the core area of inheriting historic culture in Liuzhou City, Yufeng District deeply digs its own resource endowment, strives for innovation and changes while adhering to the tradition, and comprehensively promotes the cultural tourism industry in its jurisdiction to take a new step of high-quality development.

The number of tourists in 2021 was 8,966,800, a year-on-year increase of 16.43%; Tourism consumption registered 10.181 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%. In the first half of 2022, the total number of tourists and total tourism consumption ranked first in all counties and districts of Liuzhou City. Yufeng District has successively won the honorary titles of the Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art and the Demonstration District of Ecologic Tourism throughout Guangxi, according to the Publicity Department of Yufeng District.

Highlight the background color with culture as the spirit

Yufeng District is located in the south of Liuzhou City, and is the birthplace of Liujiang men – one of the earliest ancient humans in China, with a long historical accumulation and abundant national cultural connotations. There are 11 national 4A-level tourist attractions in the jurisdiction, including Liyufeng with mountain peaks and green pond, Bailiandong Cave Science Museum with a long history, the century-old Liuzhou Industrial Museum and Liuzhou River Snail Rice Noodle Industrial Park where brands gather. Liyong Town and Baisha Town have an elegant natural scenery, including the lawn at the river beach, the birds in the sandbank, the flying waterfalls, the flowing springs, the clear stream, and the caves. Yufeng District fully utilizes and inherits the resource advantages of Liuzhou’s historical and cultural core area, integrates in multiple dimensions, and constantly highlights the gold business cards of “snail culture”, “folk song culture” and “prehistoric culture”.

Strengthen development while taking projects as key point

To achieve high-quality development, the project support is indispensable for the cultural tourism industry. Yufeng District insists on taking the project as the key point, promotes the construction of cultural tourism projects at a high level, actively carries out the investment attraction of cultural tourism industry, and cultivates a batch of cultural tourism projects with strong driving ability and wide radiation range through attracting investment and major support. It has successively built the new museum of Liuzhou Bailiandong Cave Science Museum, the exhibition hall of Liuzhou Bauhinia Cultural Creativity Gallery, and Snail Street in Yaobu Ancient Town in Liuzhou, introduced the 5G+VR science and technology theme park – Xiangyun Snail Park, and accelerated the projects of Yufeng Sports Park, Liuzhou Wolong Lake International Tourist Resort, and Longdu Tourist Road, injecting new power and adding new vitality to the economic development in the jurisdiction, and exploring new spaces.

Add vitality focusing on features

River snail rice noodle is a street delicacy in Liuzhou City. In 2016, Yufeng District took the lead in eating crabs, and moved street food into the park for large-scale and brand production, to build the Liuzhou River Snail Rice Noodle Industrial Park. At present, the park has introduced 48 enterprises engaged in river snail rice noodle, with a daily production and marketing of nearly 4 million bags, making it the largest producing area of bagged river snail rice noodle in China. Taking industry as the carrier, the park will turn into a scenic spot, and change diners into tourists, while Yufeng District will deeply cultivate the river snail rice noodle culture and launch four cultural experience tourist routes for river snail rice noodle, namely traceability tour, experience tour, country tour, etc. to fully display the historical origin, cultural connotation and development history of Liuzhou river snail rice noodle, and to constantly enhance the popularity and influence of Liuzhou river snail rice noodle industry, and at the same time, constantly release its cultural charm.

Source: The Publicity Department of Yufeng District

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Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Centro UC Síndrome de Down and Japan Down Syndrome Association Join Forces to Translate & Provide Online Access to the GLOBAL Adult Guideline

DENVER, Dec. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL), published a Spanish and Japanese version of the GLOBAL Medical Care Guidelines for Adults with Down Syndrome (“GLOBAL Adult Guideline”) in collaboration with the El Centro de la Universidad Católica de Síndrome de Down in Chile (Centro UC Síndrome de Down or CUSD) and the Japan Down Syndrome Association (JDSA).

The GLOBAL Adult Guideline is the first evidence-based guideline for adults with Down syndrome and was published in English in JAMA, the Journal of American Medical Association, in 2020. The guideline authors include the directors of the largest adult Down syndrome clinics in the US, and the current nine medical topics are: behavior, dementia, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, osteoporosis, atlantoaxial instability, thyroid disease, and celiac disease. GLOBAL is working to expand the topics to include sleep apnea, solid tumors, leukemia, vision/eye care, and physical therapy and fitness.

In addition to the 80-page guideline for medical professionals, GLOBAL has also published a much shorter family-friendly version, and toolkits that include easy to follow assessments for Celiac disease, Diabetes, Behavior, and annual check-ups.

All of these resources for adults are now available in Spanish and Japanese at no cost on the GLOBAL website, DS-Connect^®: The Down Syndrome Registry, CUSD website, and JDSA website.

“GLOBAL is pleased to be able to reach Spanish and Japanese speakers who have Down syndrome and their families in the U.S. in collaboration from the National Institutes of Health/DS-Connect^®,” says Michelle Sie Whitten, President & CEO of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. “The NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has been supportive from the beginning. We are also deeply grateful for Dr. Macarena Lizama at CUSD and Dr. Hiroshi Tamai, President of JDSA, Dr. Chisen Takeuchi of the JDSA for helping to ensure this reaches hundreds of thousands of Spanish and Japanese speakers around the world.”

GLOBAL has worked with Congress since 2006 advocating for a trans-NIH Down syndrome research funding program and for increased funding. In December of 2010, GLOBAL and the NIH co-organized the first Down syndrome research conference with a focus on registries and biobanks. One important result was the establishment of DS-Connect^®: The Down Syndrome Registry.

“It is so important for me and other people with Down syndrome to have this in Spanish,” says Yadiro Carrillo, a 32-year-old self-advocate and entrepreneur who happens to have Down syndrome. “I need to know how to take care of myself as an adult!”

“Seeing the guideline in Spanish feels like GLOBAL values Spanish -speaking families like mine,” said Yadira Carrillo, mother of a 32-year-old daughter who has Down syndrome. “Language is a barrier some families face to receiving medical care and I know this will help so many people in the U.S. and internationally.” In Chile, GLOBAL has been working closely with Dr. Lizama on many projects including creating the Spanish version of the GLOBAL Guideline and the COVID-19 and Down Syndrome Resource.

“What Michelle, Bryn Gelaro and their team have accomplished in research and medical care is so important,” says Dr. Macarena Lizama, Medical Director of the El Centro de la Universidad Católica de Síndrome de Down in Chile. “We are honored to collaborate with GLOBAL on this transformative resource and to improve medical equity, especially for Spanish-speaking countries where medical care access and basic resources for people with Down syndrome can be very scarce. I will be very proud to use this resource in my clinic and share it with my colleagues and families.”

Dr. Hiroshi Tamai echoes this sentiment, “We are grateful for the collaboration we have had with GLOBAL and to have this important resource in Japanese is a dream come true. My daughter and thousands of Japanese adults with Down syndrome will surely benefit. We look forward to working with GLOBAL and adding new medical areas in the next few years.”

GLOBAL is currently working with the Ministries of Health in both Chile and Japan to ensure the guidelines are available free of charge and easily findable on their disability home pages.

To learn more about the GLOBAL Adult Guideline and download your copy today, visit www.globaldownsyndrome.org/medical-care-guidelines-for-adults/

To learn more about Global Down Syndrome Foundation, visit www.globaldownsyndrome.org

About Global Down Syndrome Foundation
The Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL) is the largest non-profit in the U.S. working to save lives and dramatically improve health outcomes for people with Down syndrome. GLOBAL has donated more than $32 million to establish the first Down syndrome research institute supporting over 400 scientists and over 2,200 patients with Down syndrome from 33 states and 10 countries. Working closely with Congress and the National Institutes of Health, GLOBAL is the lead advocacy organization in the U.S. for Down syndrome research and care. GLOBAL has a membership of over 100 Down syndrome organizations worldwide, and is part of a network of Affiliates – the Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, the Sie Center for Down Syndrome, and the University of Colorado Alzheimer’s and Cognition Center – all on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

GLOBAL’s widely circulated medical publications include Global Medical Care Guidelines for Adults with Down Syndrome, Prenatal & Newborn Down Syndrome Information and the award-winning magazine Down Syndrome World^TM . GLOBAL also organizes the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show, the largest Down syndrome fundraiser in the world. Visit globaldownsyndrome.org and follow us on social media (Facebook & Twitter: @GDSFoundation, Instagram: @globaldownsyndrome).

IMPORTANT NOTICE
While content of this press release and the GLOBAL Guideline was developed by GLOBAL and the GLOBAL Guideline Authors, we are unable and do not intend to provide medical advice or legal advice to individuals. Please contact your health care provider(s) or legal advisor(s) for questions specific to your individual health history or care.

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