Guilin, the popular tourist spot, with its ethnic variety, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is now seeing a new type of visitor - investors - thanks to some creativity fairs.

One of these was the second China (Guilin) Creativity and Cartoon Fair, which opened on Oct 16. It was sponsored by the Guilin government and organized by the Guilin High-Tech Industrial Zone's administration committee. It saw nine contracts, worth more than 500 million yuan ($75 million), signed.