On February 10, the Chinese, English and French editions of The Great Wall of Beijing were first released in Beijing, telling the culture of the Great Wall in a global, historical and future context. The book has been listed as a free reading list for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and more than 10,000 copies have been delivered to the Beijing Winter Olympic Village, the main media center, the 2022 Beijing News Center and the media reception stations in various competition areas.
During the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay, the Badaling Great Wall is one of the two relay points in Yanqing, with the theme of "Ridge of the Nation". The ruins of the Chongli Ming Great Wall are adjacent to the ancient poplar tree venues in Zhangjiakou Competition Area, realizing the goal of "watching the Winter Olympics at the foot of the Great Wall and seeing the Great Wall at the Winter Olympics". Zhu Yinghui, executive director of the Beijing International Urban Development Research Institute, said that the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing, which has the essence of the Great Wall, and Zhangjiakou, known as the "Great Wall Museum of The Past Dynasties", is an important opportunity to show the culture of the Great Wall to the world.
"At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, we all looked forward to the world knowing China, and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics entered a new stage of showing and expressing China to the world." Zhu Yinghui said that the Great Wall is an important part of China's excellent traditional culture and is the "golden business card" of the Chinese nation. Since 2015, the research team has begun to investigate the Great Wall Cultural Belt in Beijing and continues to carry out follow-up research.
Lian Yuming, editor-in-chief of The Great Wall of Beijing and president of the Beijing International Urban Development Research Institute, said that the book reveals the wisdom of the contribution of China's excellent traditional culture represented by the Great Wall culture to the world with the concept of "mutual learning among civilizations and the beauty of each other", and explains the beauty of the Great Wall in multiple languages. Through the Winter Olympics, the development concept of the Chinese nation of "valuing harmony and taking culture as a person" will be displayed to the world, and the value pursuit of "beauty and commonality and world unity" will be conveyed.
The Chinese, English and French editions of The Great Wall of Beijing are jointly researched, compiled, translated and published by the Beijing International Urban Development Research Institute, the Beijing International Urban Cultural Exchange Foundation, the Joint Science Press, and the French EDP Publishing House, and are supported and guided by the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee.