China Will Spare No Efforts to Build “The Belt and Road” Cultural Exchange and Cooperation Platforms and Brands
| From 2017 onwards, China will spare no efforts to build a series of “The Belt and Road” cultural exchange and cooperation platforms and brands to vigorously promote the communication with the people of the countries along “The Belt and Road”. In top-level design, China proposes to improve “The Belt and Road” cultural exchange and cooperation mechanism, perfect “The Belt and Road” cultural exchange and cooperation platforms, create “The Belt and Road” cultural exchange brands, push the development of “The Belt and Road” culture industry, and promote 5 tasks and 12 special plans on “The Belt and Road” cultural and trade cooperation. In government cooperation, at the end of 2016, China signed agreement on inter-government cultural exchange and cooperation with more than 60 countries along “The Belt and Road”, and established various effective cooperative mechanisms with international organizations in relevant fields. In cultural organization and institution, China is actively pushing establishment of 5 cooperative alliances with relevant countries along “The Belt and Road”, namely, the Silk Road International Federation of Theatres, the Silk Road International Coalition of Library Consortia, the Silk Road International Federation of Museums, the Silk Road International Federation of Art Galleries, and the Silk Road International Federation of Arts Festivals. In personal exchange, China will focus on the Silk Road cultural tours, the Silk Road cultural envoys, young sinologist research plans, and Chinese and foreign literature, film and television translation researches; it is planned to realize, in 2020, cultural exchanges with the countries and regions along “The Belt and Road” by 30,000 man-times, invite 800 think tank scholars, sinologists and translators to China for exchange and research, and cultivate 150 talents in international youth cultural relics restoration and museum management. |
| Source: China Culture Daily, http://www.sohu.com/a/139997607_543931 |