2nd Zheng'an Guitar Music Festival kicks off

Famous bands perform at the second Zheng'an Guitar Music Festival. [Photo provided by sponsors of the second Zheng'an Guitar Music Festival]

The second Zheng'an Guitar Music Festival was held in Zheng'an county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on the evening of Aug 20. More than 6,000 people enjoyed the festival.

This year's music festival featured five singers and bands, as well as guitar experts, music experts and internet influencers to promote guitar culture.

Zheng'an, a county with an annual output of 6 million guitars, is known as China's hometown of guitar manufacturing and the world's largest guitar industrial cluster.

Here you can see the world's largest guitar sculpture, guitar-themed streets, a guitar cultural city, a guitar museum, and a guitar concert hall.

Zheng'an established the world's largest guitar manufacturing base in 2012. The county currently has 126 guitar-related companies selling guitars to more than 40 countries and regions.

These companies have 56 self-owned guitar bands and have formed a whole industrial chain for guitar parts, paper boxes and packaging. Zheng'an is also the only qualified county in Guizhou to establish a national cultural industry demonstration industrial park.