In early autumn, Nishan stands majestically, when it is colorful and colorful. Envoys from all over the world, provincial and ministerial dignitaries, well-known experts and other heavyweights are about to open a dialogue of civilizations that transcends time and space and national boundaries here.
The 9th Nishan World Civilization Forum is scheduled to be held from September 26 to 28 in Qufu Nishan, the birthplace of Confucius, and compared with previous years, this year's forum is more international, cutting-edge, covers a wider range of fields, and has many highlights worthy of attention.
Data map: The 8th Nishan World Civilization Forum was held.
Photo by Liang Ben
The core topics focus on the questions of the times
At present, the world's unprecedented changes in a century are accelerating their evolution, and the characteristics of world changes, times and history are more obvious. In the face of various uncertainties and instability around the world, the Nishan Forum is committed to achieving inclusive coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations through dialogue, and further consolidating human consensus.
Since its inception in 2010, each Nishan Forum has focused on common topics of general concern and carefully refined and set themes. The theme of this year's forum is "Common Values of All Mankind and a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind - Strengthening Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations and Jointly Responding to Global Challenges", and 12 sub-topics were set up for experts and scholars to discuss and exchange.
The theme and sub-topics of the 9th Nishan World Civilization Forum. Source: Popular Daily
Today, when the future and destiny of all countries in the world are closely linked, the theme of this forum focuses on the common challenges facing all mankind, advocates unity to resolve divisions, cooperation to answer confrontation, and inclusiveness instead of exclusion, which will further promote the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom for all mankind, and seek solutions to global problems.
Heavyweight guests flocked to the scene
The official press conference revealed that this year's Nishan Forum has highlighted the "world" and "internationalization". Nearly 160 foreign guests, including envoys from 17 countries in China, governors and mayors of sister provinces and governors of 12 countries, and foreign media journalists, experts and scholars, will attend the relevant activities of the forum.
The forum has attracted the participation of forces from multiple fields, levels and different research directions, covering foreign central governments, political parties, non-governmental organizations, media and other subjects, and jointly contributing wisdom to the mutual integration and mutual learning of world civilization and the peaceful development of human society.
Tomislav Sora, Chairman of the World's Best Heritage Organization, was interviewed by China News Agency at the 9th Nishan World Civilization Forum. Photo by Liang Ben
Academic discussions expand to deeper and broader fields
For a long time, relying on its profound academic background, Nishan Forum has exerted extensive and positive social influence at home and abroad.
This year, focusing on academic seminars and exchanges, Nishan Forum planned 1 high-end interview, 2 keynote speeches, 3 high-end dialogues, 10 group dialogues and other main forum activities, and innovatively held 13 parallel sub-forums such as the Nishan World Classical Civilization Forum, the "East-West Dialogue-China-Foreign Dialogue" forum, and the Confucian Summit Forum.
The forum focused on inviting more than 20 top experts and scholars in the academic field to serve as the academic hosts of the main forum and sub-forums, and carefully designed 29 academic exchange activities, expanding from a single Confucian seminar to a wider field such as history (archaeology), religious studies, ethics, and cultural studies, further highlighting the academic nature.
The Nishan World Cultural Relics (Museum) Forum held in Qufu on September 26. Photo by Liang Ben
The Nishan World Literature Forum held in Qufu on September 26. Photo by Liang Ben
For the first time, the "East-West Question-China-China Dialogue" forum was held
Among the many sub-forums with academic weight and ideological power, the "East-West Dialogue-China Dialogue" forum, which was held for the first time this year, has attracted much attention from the outside world.
Hosted by China News Service and hosted by China News Network, the forum was mainly focused on "exploring the significance of Chinese culture in the world and promoting exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations". The participating scholars will conduct in-depth discussions on topics related to cultural exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.
In the next three days, let us listen to the wisdom, diverse voices and strong voices of the times from Nishan...