Famous cities at home and abroad "gathered" and big coffee gathered
Multicultural exchange symbiosis...
The eyes of the world are once again focused
A famous historical and cultural city - Nanjing
On December 15, the 2021 Nanjing Historical and Cultural City Expo, co-sponsored by UNESCO, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Nanjing Municipal People's Government, kicked off.
With the theme of "Mutual Learning, Integration and Co-creation", guests from unesco, the SCO and other international institutions, cities along the "Belt and Road", international sister cities, famous historical and cultural cities at home and abroad, and member cities of the World Urban Culture Forum, met online and offline in the famous city of Nanjing, to paint a new picture of the multicultural exchange and symbiosis of the "Belt and Road" and build a sustainable development future of historical cities and solidarity.
Working together to create a "New Silk Road"
The 2021 Nanjing Historical and Cultural City Expo opened
More than 600 years ago, the Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He went to the West seven times, and Nanjing, as a decision-making place, starting place and shipbuilding place, promoted the great prosperity of the Maritime Silk Road and promoted the great exchange of Chinese and Western commercial culture.
Today, Nanjing, as an important hub city at the intersection of the "Belt and Road", an important node city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and a megacity in the Yangtze River Delta, is comprehensively building a model city of socialist modernization that the people are satisfied with.
Afternoon of December 15
2021 Nanjing Famous Historical and Cultural City Expo
Officially launched in Jiangsu Garden Expo Park
From 12 countries along the Belt and Road
and regional artists
"The Sound of the Piano" on the Joint "Cloud"
Opened the main forum -
"Together: Building a Sustainable Urban Future"
Prologue to a special dialogue
THE UNESCO Representative in The Five East Asian Countries delivered a speech via video. Xia Zehan said that Nanjing, as the first and only "literary capital" in China, has contributed to the development of world literature with its rich historical and cultural heritage and strong youthful vitality. "To achieve our common goal of making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, we must value the cultural assets of cities and translate this reality into more effective policies and more sustainable urban governance."
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SCO Secretary-General Vladimir Norov addressed the participants. He said that the SCO member states, based on the principles of mutual trust, dialogue on an equal footing and respect for cultural diversity, work together every year in the field of culture and tourism to study and protect the cultural heritage of the SCO region, and that more than 143 sites in the SCO countries have been inscribed on unesco's World List of Tangible and Intangible Heritage, and this number is increasing every year. "With a long history, economically and culturally developed, Jiangsu Province is known for its many cities of historical and cultural significance, and can share its experience in developing and protecting the rich heritage of the region."
According to reports, the Nanjing Historical and Cultural City Expo has been successfully held for 8 sessions and is one of the important platforms for promoting international cultural exchanges.
In recent years, As a national historical and cultural city, Nanjing has actively participated in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", been selected as the UNESCO "Creative City Network and Literary Capital", participated in the holding of three "Belt and Road" Youth Creativity and Heritage Forums, planned to hold two Sessions of the Nanjing Peace Forum, held the China Nanjing Week for 7 consecutive years, and extensively carried out foreign cultural exchanges and cooperation. Nanjing continues to expand foreign cultural trade and investment, 99 sister cities and friendly cooperation cities throughout the five continents and 52 countries, the city's "circle of friends" is getting bigger and bigger; Nanjing has deeply implemented the protection project of cultural heritage relics, comprehensively promoted the joint application for the Nanjing Ming and Qing Dynasty City Wall, and the intangible cultural heritage such as Nanjing Yunjin, Qinhuai Lantern, Jinling Scripture, Nanjing Gold Leaf, Nanjing White Bureau and so on continue to spread charm on the world stage, and the city's international cultural influence has become more prominent.
scene
Take "Zheng He's Route to the West"
A launch ceremony designed for elements
It symbolizes the ancient Silk Road
Connection and continuation with the "Belt and Road"
Today, the "Belt and Road" in the new era is not only a win-win road to promote world economic and trade cooperation, but also a mutual learning road to enhance understanding and exchange among different civilizations.
At the forum, the Information Office of the Nanjing Municipal People's Government signed a memorandum of cooperation with Tencent Cloud and jointly released the "Belt and Road" heritage protection and utilization digital platform project. The construction of the platform will promote the innovative and sustainable use of cultural heritage, provide paths, methods and tools for the sustainable development of the world's historic cities, and at the same time use the use of digital technology and high-tech means to build a complete cultural heritage ecological protection system and pattern, and promote the "going out" of China's digital cultural heritage.
Global City "Cloud Convergence"
Jointly discuss the sustainable development of historical and cultural cities
At the forum, many guests from home and abroad were invited
By sharing real-world cases and practical experiences
Discuss the history of the city together,
A new path for the protection and regeneration of cultural heritage
The SCO Deputy Secretary-General, Dronon Sherali, exemplified the SCO Eight Wonders Project, which elaborates on the deepening of cooperation among SCO member states in the fields of music, theatre and fine arts, literature and film, as well as in archives, museums and libraries, the protection and restoration of monuments and cultural heritage objects. In recent years, the SCO has taken advantage of the "east wind" of jointly building the "Belt and Road", actively promoted people-to-people exchanges and cooperation among countries along the "Belt and Road", and used cultural diversity, rich historical and cultural resources to promote humanistic cooperation among "Belt and Road" member states.
Catalina Vas Pinto, former Deputy Mayor for Cultural Affairs of Lisbon, Portugal, shared the case of building a network of Lisbon libraries under the title of Identity and Memory: Cultural Inclusion for a People-Centred Sustainable Future. "The Lisbon Library Network is a good example of the eighteen municipal libraries that make up the network covering the whole city and organizing projects to promote reading in order to develop artistic sensibility and digital literacy, preserve memory and intangible heritage, and thus create a stronger sense of belonging and identity."
In the roundtable dialogue session, Charles Landley, a British urban planning expert, shared his practical experience of combining culture, creativity and heritage to promote sustainable urban development through the two cases of Amsterdam and Barcelona. Charles Landley, an internationally renowned expert on the transformation of urban planning driven by imagination and creativity, believes that every city is rethinking how it should work, how to integrate nature into the city, and how to be more human-centered.
What will the cities of the future look like? Boeri, former deputy mayor of Milan, Italy, believes that green is the background of the recovery of all things, and green ecological buildings will become the protagonists of urban transformation in the future. At present, Boeri is also gradually promoting the "vertical forest" project in Nanjing, committed to the practice of green ecological buildings.
In addition, mayors such as Nanjing Sister City, "Belt and Road" City, and City Organized by the World Urban Culture Forum also sent cloud blessings through video. Cambodia Siem Reap Governor Di Siha said that from 1993 to 2021, the Siem Reap provincial government has established sister city relations with 30 provinces and cities of the People's Republic of China, of which Siem Reap Province and Nanjing signed a friendly agreement on September 6, 2019, establishing friendly relations. "Our cooperation in tourism, education, culture, trade, technology and other fields has achieved remarkable results."
Wonderful sharing of "cloud communication"
A new answer sheet for inheriting historical and cultural heritage will be given
This event
It also attracts a lot of historical and cultural heritage
Participation with conservation experts and scholars
Shu Wenqi, General Manager of Tencent Cloud Media and New Cultural and Creative Industry, shared some of Tencent's successful cases from the perspective of enterprises participating in the inheritance and protection of historical and cultural heritage.
Dong Wei, Chair of unesco Chair in Cultural Resource Management, head of the Secretariat of the Asian Society for Heritage Management, and chairman of the Academic Committee on the History and Theory of Urban Planning of the China Urban Planning Society, shared his personal experience in promoting the protection of cultural heritage and urban planning research of the "Belt and Road" in the ancient city of Miaowu in Myanmar.
The President of the Hong Kong Academy of the Arts, Mr. Ru Guolie, led the construction of the Xiqu Centre, the first large-scale performing arts facility in the West Kowloon Cultural District, and shared his views and feelings on the city's cultural development.
"Common Heritage, Common World"
The Artistic Co-creation Initiative was officially launched
After the forum, the guests participated in the important project of the practice and exhibition activities of this year's Famous Cities Association - "Common Heritage, Common World" global art co-creation action in Nanjing Park, Jiangsu Garden Expo Park, and together they formed the art installation of "TOGETHER".
It is understood that the event consists of a flash mob, a global online transmission, and a Nanjing city-wide landing display.
On the morning of the 15th, the flash mob activity of "From Jasmine to Turandot" and painting "Common Heritage" was carried out on the Ming City Wall by young artists and students studying in Ningbo. Previously, the Organizing Committee of the Nanjing Famous Cities Association has issued co-creation invitations to artists and institutions around the world through social media platforms such as Sina Weibo, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms at home and abroad, depicting the cultural symbols and stories of the country or city through their own creativity, and interpreting the understanding of the theme of "common heritage, common world" in different styles.
Up to now, the event has collected the artworks of nearly 30 young creators from 15 countries such as China, britain, France, Spain, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Liberia, further bringing together more international, young and diversified innovative ideas for civilizational exchanges, especially cultural mutual learning with the "Belt and Road" countries.
This event made a breakthrough in the display form and space, using balloons as a three-dimensional artistic way of expression, and the landing installation will be displayed at the city's cultural landmarks such as Laomendong, Dabao'en Temple, Confucius Temple, xuanwu lake and so on from December 15 to 19.
In addition, during this year's Nanjing Historical and Cultural City Expo, a variety of activities such as the "2021 World Urban Heritage and Innovation Forum" and the "2021 'Belt and Road' Youth Creativity and Heritage Forum Special Dialogue" will be held in Nanjing.
The Belt and Road Initiative is not only a win-win road to promote world economic and trade cooperation, but also a mutual learning path to enhance understanding and exchanges among different civilizations.
Nanjing Famous Cities Association will continue to give full play to the advantages of resources, open up normalized exchanges and dialogues in famous historical and cultural cities with the online digital platform of famous cities, organize normalized online seminars, and continue to carry out the co-creation practice of the protection of famous historical and cultural cities with the extreme beauty of Nanjing as the exhibition venue, and deepen the cultural exchanges and cooperation of the "Belt and Road".
Photo by Wang Chun
The material source | Nanjing Famous City Association Organizing Committee