The twenty-fourth International Beach Festival in Qingdao?recently opened in the first bathing beach of the city, whose charm has already attracted the citizen for years, becoming an important of the cultural life in Qingdao.

This session of the Beach Festival was held jointly by several governmental departments with the help from many cultural units, during which many local art troupes would provide performances, and local students would also hold a beach-painting competition here.

At last a wedding ceremony would end the opening ceremony named Laborer of the Modern Time, whose participants are mostly the workers of the municipal constructions, volunteers having worked domestically and abroad, waterborne rescue team members attached to the municipal Red Crossing Association along with their wives, stars and foreign experts, getting together to celebrate what they‘ve already achieved and to long for what they would do in the future.