​The 2022 World Athletics Half-Marathon Championships, originally scheduled to be held in eastern China's Yangzhou on March 20, 2022, will be postponed for one week to March 27, 2022, officials announced on July 2.

​Construction started on Xiamen Garden, the first city garden of the 2021 International Horticultural Exhibition in Yangzhou, on June 30.

Tourists from Shanghai and Huangshan in Anhui province will be able to take direct high-speed trains to Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, thanks to the opening of the long-awaited Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway, which started operations July 1.

​The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which will fall on June 25 this year.

​Tourist attractions in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province will hold a series of events during the upcoming three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday under the epidemic prevention and control requirements of the local government.