Children paint their kites during the Yangtze River Delta Kite Festival, which was held in Nantong CBD from April 5 to 9. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

The Yangtze River Delta Kite Festival was held in the Central Business District of Nantong in East China's Jiangsu province from April 5 to 9.

Twenty kite teams from YRD cities including Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, and Xuzhou were invited to participate in the festival.

Children paint their kites during the Yangtze River Delta Kite Festival. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

The kite festival is part of the 18th Art Show Month in Nantong, which was sponsored by the Publicity Department of the CPC Nantong Municipal Committee, the Nantong municipal bureau of culture and tourism, and the Nantong Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

The Nantong CBD is located in Wenfeng subdistrict of Chongchuan district and is one of the important business districts in Nantong's downtown area.

Children proudly show off their self-painted kites. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

Covering an area of 580,000 square meters, the Nantong CBD consists of Nantong ZNC Shopping Mall, Nantong YoungMax, and the Nantong Sports and Exhibition Center, and offers 24-hour services for commerce, social communication, culture, and sports.

In recent years, the Nantong CBD has taken measures to create opportunities for customers to experience intangible cultural heritage items, including blue calico making, Shen embroidery, banyao kite, and paper cutting. The kite festival is one of the district's such attempts.