Source: China News Network
KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 (China News Service) -- After being closed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Museum of the Malaysian Chinese City Hall (hereinafter referred to as Hua Zong Hua Bo) reopened on the 29th under the witness of Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing and people from all walks of life in the Malaysian Chinese Community.
The picture shows Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing (second from left) and Wu Tianquan, President of the General Assembly of the Chinese City Hall (third from left), visiting the museum. Photo courtesy of China News Service
Officially opened to the public on May 1, 2018, Huabo covers an area of more than 10,000 square feet, with a collection of thousands of exhibits in various fields, comprehensively displaying the "precious history and cultural heritage" of Malaysian Chinese. In 2020, after the outbreak of the epidemic in Malaysia, Huazong Huabo has been closed so far.
At the restart ceremony on the same day, Hua also hired well-known Chinese community leaders Chen Yanshun, Kwong Hanguang and Chen Dazhen as permanent honorary consultants of the museum; and hired Dai Xiaohua, He Qicai, Chen Zhonghe, Yu Sifu, Huang Ruiqing and other "experts and scholars with high attainments and rich experience in promoting Chinese culture in Malaysia" as consultants, hoping to give full play to the strength of people from all walks of life to help inherit and carry forward Chinese culture. Mr. Hua also awarded the late Wu Defang, the first chairman of the Huabo Committee, as the museum's "Honorary Consultant for Life" in recognition of his contributions to Huabo.
The picture shows Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing (third from left) and Wu Tianquan, President of the Chinese City Hall (fourth from left), pushing open the prop door symbolizing the reopening of the museum. China News Service reporter Chen Yue photographed
Wu Tianquan, president of the China City Hall (Hua Zong), said that with the relaxation of epidemic control measures in Malaysia, Hua Bo and Hua Zong, the State China Town Hall are gradually resuming operations. He hoped that Huabo, with the support of all parties, would continue to grow steadily and become a "solid fortress" of Chinese history, education and culture in Malaysia, just like Chinese primary schools, (Chinese) independent secondary schools and Chinese media.
Ouyang Yujing praised Hua Bo for "retaining the recollection of overseas Chinese in Malaysia and overseas Chinese in their homeland" and "retaining the true record of the history of the struggle and development of the ancestors, the contributions made to the development and construction of Malaysia and the motherland, and the promotion of friendly exchanges between China and Malaysia." He said: At present, The relations between China and Malaysia continue to maintain a healthy and stable development, and he hopes that The President of China, together with the all-Malaysian Chinese Society, will continue to make greater contributions to friendly exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. (End)