November 18, the Eighth China Bamboo Cultural Festival jointly organized by the State Forestry Administration and the provincial government, INBAR opened in Huangshan City. Deputy director of the CPPCC Population Resources and Environment Committee, Co-Chair of INBAR Board of Directors, president of the Chinese Bamboo Industry Association Zehui attended the opening ceremony and announced the opening.

The Bamboo Cultural Festival theme: "promote the bamboo culture, the development of bamboo industry, building a better village." Bamboo Cultural Festival colorful, not only visits the province bamboo technology demonstration park, visit the National Bamboo and Rattan (Huangshan) Engineering Technology Research Center and the Bamboo Germplasm Bank, also held development of bamboo industry to exchange experiences, green bamboo industry development and innovation-driven international seminars, thematic photography exhibition bamboo culture and rhyme in Huangshan bamboo bamboo planting Memorial. 8 bamboo producing provinces forestry department heads, "the Chinese bamboo township" "Bamboo Chinese characteristics" on behalf of, the UNESCO representative in China, INBAR Board of Directors and Member States diplomatic envoys, representatives of the State Forestry, scholars bamboo industry research units and more than 400 people attended the opening ceremony.

Bamboo industry is one of the top ten green enriching focus on the development of China‘s forestry industry, China Bamboo Cultural Festival is to promote the development of bamboo industry a good carrier. Abundant bamboo resources in the province, an area of 505.8 acres of existing bamboo forest, accounting for 8.86 percent of the province‘s forest area, in 2013 the province‘s bamboo industry output value 14.36 billion yuan, ranking sixth in the country.