The Hexi Corridor Urban and Frontier Governance Symposium was held at Lanzhou City College

On December 28, the Academic Seminar on the Governance of Cities in the Hexi Corridor and the Frontier Governance of Past Dynasties and the Member Representative Conference of the Gansu Provincial Historical Society were held at Lanzhou City College. Nearly 50 experts and scholars from Lanzhou University, Northwest Normal University, Northwest University for Nationalities, Dunhuang Research Institute and other units attended the meeting.

Xu Erzhong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Lanzhou City College, Tian Shu, Member of the Standing Committee and Vice President of the Party Committee of Northwest Normal University and President of the Gansu Historical Society, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Mo Chao, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president of Lanzhou City University, presided over the opening ceremony.

Xu Erzhong introduced the history of Lanzhou City College, the construction of disciplines and majors, and the direction of further efforts to the experts and scholars attending the meeting. He said that the conference takes the study of urban history in the northwest region as the theme, which is of great significance to the development of related disciplines in the school, and hopes that the participating experts will continue to care about and guide the development and construction of school history and related disciplines.

On behalf of the Gansu Historical Society, Tian Shu delivered a speech, reported on the basic situation of the Gansu Provincial Historical Society and the work of the past five years, and explained the significance of the compilation of the "General History of Lanzhou" and the "General History of Hexi" to serve the local cultural and economic construction.

At the seminar, twelve experts and scholars made keynote speeches on the theme of "City". Among them, Zhang Defang, a researcher at the Gansu Jianmu Museum, published "Northwest Han Dynasty and Urban History", Northwest Normal University researcher Li Hecheng's "Examination of the Remaining Han and Tang Dynasty Town Ruins and Their Academic Value", Professor Jia Xiaojun of Hexi University "From Isolation of Qianghu to Huarong Convergence: Hantang Hexi City and Social Change", and Professor Chen Shangmin of Lanzhou City College "Research on the Keju Family in the Hexi Region of the Qing Dynasty" and other reports comprehensively sorted out the development history of the urban belt of the Hexi Corridor from different angles.

Dunhuang Research Institute researcher Yang Fuxue's "Dunhuang Named Kaoyuan", Lanzhou City College Professor Sun Zhanyu's "Juyan Duweifu City New Examination", Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum researcher Zhang Xiaodong's "Jiayuguan Past and Present Life", Liangzhou Cultural Research Institute researcher Zhang Guocai's "From the Poetry of Yongliang in Past Dynasties to Manage the Ancient Liangzhou City Meteorology", Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Researcher Chen Guoke's "Archaeology of the Tuguhun Royal Tomb Group in Wuwei Region" and other reports, on Dunhuang, Juyan, Jiayuguan, The development history of node cities such as Wuwei has been outlined and depicted.

Reports such as "The History and Characteristics of Lanzhou in the Pre-Qin Period" by Professor Duan Xiaoqiang of Northwest University for Nationalities, "The Establishment of County-Prefecture Institutions from Qin to Tanglanzhou" by Professor Liu Zaicong of Northwest Normal University, and "The Center of the Great Rear Area of the Northwest War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: Lanzhou" by Professor Shang Jifang of Northwest Normal University have comprehensively sorted out the historical development of Lanzhou from ancient times to the present.

Subsequently, the election meeting of the board of directors of the Gansu Historical Society was held. The congress deliberated and adopted the amendment to the Constitution of the Gansu Historical Society and elected a new board of directors of the Gansu Provincial Historical Society. Professor He Yuhong of Northwest Normal University was elected as the new president, and Yang Hongwei, professor of Lanzhou University, was elected as executive vice president.