Jessica Xantomila
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La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, September 21, 2025, p. 11
Beijing When Mexico’s name sounds in Chinese lands, many of its citizens refer to food, chili, tequila, pyramids and their landscapes. Those who have already had the opportunity to know the country dare to talk about the tacos of Pastor and the beaches of the Caribbean. Although the distance between both nations is more than 12,400 kilometers, more and more Chinese travel through tourism and investment. Only last year, more than 200 thousand visited Mexico, according to local agencies.
To continue conquering travelers, forge alliances and strengthen collaboration with the Asian giant, the Mexican government will carry out the 2025 tourist tianguis in China, the first in history that will take place outside the country, this September 25 and 26.
The Business Forum in this most important field in Mexico will be headed by the Secretary of Tourism, Josefina Rodríguez, and Ambassador Jesús Seade, in Beijing, the fourteenth city most populated in the world and the political, cultural and large economic heart of the country.
The diplomatic headquarters explained that for two days seminars, cultural presentations, high -level business meetings will be held and the FIFA 2026 World Cup and the Mayan Train Route will be promoted.
Representatives of seven states will also attend: Baja California, Mexico City, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacán and Nayarit, and will be attended by airlines, digital platforms and tour operators of both nations.
According to official information from both countries, having a visa is a requirement for people who want to travel through tourism or businesses from Mexico to China and vice versa. In recent months, new routes were opened to travel from the Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Beijing to the Mexican capital, which add to those opened in 2023 from Shangái and Zhengzhou, with direct flights to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport.
To open Boca, this weekend, also within the framework of the month of the national holidays, Ambassador Seade inaugurated the second edition of the Agave Festival, in Chaoyang, in which of course the tequila and mezcal abounded – with more than 10 different brands – and the Tacos de Birria, Pastor, Roasted, Tinga and even the so -called “Dorilocos” were helpful.
To the place, enlivened with Latin music, from reggaeton to pop, Chinese and foreigners gathered that sought the agave drinks, as well as beer and the Mexican taste, although almost the majority of those who attended were Asians.
Within the framework of the Tourist Tianguis, the Gastronomic Week of Mexico will also take place in China, from 22 to 28 of this month, at The Lounge Restaurant, of China World Summit Wing.
The Mexico Embassy in this country said that with this edition the Tianguis is consolidated as a strategic space for the promotion, dialogue and generation of new cooperation and investment opportunities for the benefit of both nations.
The consul of Mexico in Shanghai, Miguel Ángel Isidro, commented to The day that in recent years there has been a greater interest from both China to Mexico and vice versa: “It would highlight not only the business element, which is very important, but also the cultural ties between the two countries, which are fundamental.”
Likewise, he deepened, “we share a vision of the world; to create one in which cooperation and friendship prevail.”
Within the framework of his participation in the eighth forum of dialogues between civilizations of China and Latin America and the Caribbean, in the city of Wuxi, in Jiangsu, he stressed that Mexico stands out as a strategic destination to be the fifth largest country in the region and 14 in the world, with a privileged location as the center of all Americas.
In April of this year, he said, international exports from Mexico to China amounted to 784 million dollars, while imports reached 10,302 million. “Despite the commercial deficit with China, this dynamic also reveals the strategic role of Mexico within the global supply chains. Chinese companies are increasingly investing in industrial parks, creating tens of thousands of jobs and developing local infrastructure,” he said.
