Recently, the "2022 Think Tank View China Innovation and Development Forum" cloud conference jointly sponsored by Guosheng Think Tank, China Cultural Relics Exchange Center, China Business History Society, and The Comparative Research Center of Chinese and Foreign Economies of Central University of Finance and Economics, and hosted by the Contemporary World Information Technology Research Institute and the Big Data Center of Smart China Magazine was held in Beijing. After institutional recommendation and expert review, the list of "Light of Civilization • 2021 Chinese Cultural Exchange Annual Figures and Institutions" was announced at the forum. Shu Yong, director of the China Artists Association and artist, won the honor of "Light of Civilization • 2021 Chinese Cultural Exchange Person of the Year" again.
The "Light of Civilization • Annual Figures and Institutions of Chinese Cultural Exchange" was jointly organized by Guosheng Think Tank, China Cultural Relics Exchange Center, China Business History Society, China Center for Comparative Economics of Central University of Finance and Economics, and China Cultural Exchange Network. Based on their respective fields, the honorary recipients of the "Light of Civilization • 2021 Chinese Cultural Exchange Person and Institution of the Year" have made unremitting efforts for the cultural exchange work of the mainland for a long time, actively organized various forms of Cultural Exchange Activities between China and foreign countries, led the academic research and theoretical construction of excellent culture, promoted the in-depth integration and development of culture, science and technology, education, finance, intellectual property rights and other aspects, and made outstanding contributions to telling Chinese stories, disseminating Chinese voices, and promoting people-to-people and people-to-people exchanges along the "Belt and Road".
Silk Road Golden Bridge
Shu Yong has been creating art since 1990 and has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Contemporary Art Biennale in Florence, Italy, and the Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award for the 30 Years of Reform and Opening Up jointly issued by the Chinese National Culture Promotion Association and the National Museum of China.
At the end of 2013, he began the creation of the sculpture "Silk Road Golden Bridge". "Silk Road Golden Bridge" takes China's oldest "Zhaozhou Bridge" as the shape, integrates into the national flowers of all countries in the world, and uses amber as the medium to convey the values of building a community with a shared future for mankind. It was first exhibited at the Milan World Expo in 2015, and has since become the core theme landscape at two consecutive "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and the First Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations. At the end of 2021, the "Reading China" International Conference was held in Guangzhou, using "Silk Road Golden Bridge" as the visual image logo of "Understanding China", and blending with Guangzhou's landmark Canton Tower to form a new era landscape with Chinese characteristics and world significance.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, Shu Yong has created one ink painting every day, paying tribute to the heroes of the "epidemic" with a daily painting, and currently donates all works to the China Peace and Development Foundation. By the end of December 2021, the cumulative number of visitors to the national tour exhibition reached 10 million. Shu Yong said that the next step of the work is to be exhibited in New York, Paris and other world-renowned cities to tell the "Chinese story" of fighting the epidemic worldwide.
[Reporter] Yang Yi
【Photo】Courtesy of the organizer
【Author】 Yang Yi
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client