A group of senior foreign experts gathered in East China's Anhui province on Monday for a week-long vacation tour.

The experts spent Monday in Hefei, capital city of Anhui, visiting some of the local scientific institutes, including the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China and the Hefei branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On Tuesday, the group headed for the province's Huangshan city, which is known for the Huangshan Mountain (Yellow Mountain), where they will stay until Sunday.

Li Jinbin, governor of Anhui, told the experts that the province has been increasingly eager to attract more overseas talents to work in Anhui and a favorable support package will be provided to them.

The tour, organized by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), is an annual event; the destination varies from year to year.

It aims to provide the participating foreign experts an opportunity to relax and to know China better, according to officials.

The tour for this year includes more than 30 foreign experts, who were among the country's most respected foreign talents employed in multiple fields, said Zhang Jianguo, head of SAFEA.