Gather cultural synergy and jointly promote regional development

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is one of the important regions in the mainland with rich cultural resources, profound historical heritage and distinctive regional characteristics. Promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei culture is one of the important measures to implement the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, which is of great significance for exploring the historical and cultural resources of the three places, building the cultural industry system, market system and public cultural service system of the three places, and promoting the in-depth integration and development of culture and tourism in the three places.

Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have the regional conditions and cultural background of coordinated cultural development

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has the same vein of mountains, the same source of water, the same land, and the same people, which has a deep historical origin and a cultural inheritance. Therefore, both geographically and culturally, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has a natural foundation for the coordinated development of culture.

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is located in the same geographical area. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is bordered by the Yanshan Mountains in the north, the Taihang Mountains in the west, and the Bohai Bay in the east, surrounded by mountains on both sides and the sea on the other, forming a regional geographical environment with distinctive characteristics. At the same time, the Haihe River system located in this area is closely linked to this land through numerous rivers extending in all directions. In this region, the temperate monsoon climate creates four distinct seasons, with abundant rainfall in summer and snowy winters. The integrity of the geographical region, the connection of the river system and the consistency of the climate and environment have had a profound impact on the origin and development of the culture in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has deep historical roots. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has a deep historical origin, and has been under the influence of Yan culture since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the archaeological sites in Beijing's Liulihe site, Hebei's Yanxiadu site, Tianjin's Zhangjiayuan site and other places all show the unity of the historical origin of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. During the Western Han Dynasty, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region belonged to the Youzhou Thorn History Department and the Jizhou Thorn History Department, until the Ming and Qing dynasties belonged to Zhili, and the history of more than 2,000 years once again proved the consistency of the historical development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. In the same historical context and in the unified historical memory, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has gradually developed a characteristic culture in the same line.

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has a cultural heritage. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has a long history and has left behind a splendid regional culture. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is surrounded by mountains and seas, and in the long-term historical development, it has formed regional cultural characteristics with its own merits and integration. Although the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has its own distinctive local culture, the cultural ecology of the Beijing school, the Tianjin culture, and the Yanzhao culture has been formed. Therefore, historically, the cultures of the three places contain the same cultural genes and have the characteristics of the same root and origin.

Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have a cooperative foundation and fruitful results for the coordinated development of culture

Over the past ten years since the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, the cultural departments of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and important instructions on the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and have achieved fruitful results in promoting coordinated development in the cultural field.

Adhere to overall planning and coordination, and strengthen top-level design. In August 2014, the cultural authorities of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei signed the Strategic Framework Agreement on the Coordinated Development of Cultural Fields in Tianjin Binhai New Area. Subsequently, it successively signed the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Performing Arts Deepening Cooperation Agreement" and other cooperation documents, and established the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cultural Coordinated Development Leading Group, established the joint meeting system of the cultural departments of the three places, and established the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei library, art vocational education, cultural industry, cultural tourism, performing arts, film and other industry development alliances, jointly studied the policy mechanism of cultural exchanges and cooperation among the three places, tapped the advantages of cultural resources of the three places, and provided an institutional guarantee for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei culture.

Census of cultural resources and hand in hand with heritage protection. On February 23, 2024, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, the "Distribution Map of Major Historical and Cultural Resources in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region" was released. With the cooperation of the planning and resources departments and cultural relics departments of the three places, the spatial distribution of the main historical and cultural resources in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has been presented in detail, including 8 world heritage sites such as the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, 8 famous Chinese historical and cultural cities, 10 famous Chinese historical and cultural towns, 38 Chinese historical and cultural villages and 474 national key cultural relics protection units, all of which are marked on the map. This distribution map is the first time that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has systematically sorted, objectively displayed and authoritatively released historical and cultural resources based on a unified spatial framework, providing data support for the three places to further strengthen the protection of historical and cultural heritage.

Share tourism resources and promote the development of cultural tourism. According to the big data passenger flow monitoring of the China Tourism Academy (data center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism), after years of cooperation between the cultural and tourism departments of the three places, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will become each other's important and popular source of tourists in 2023. Hebei and Tianjin are the top two sources of tourists in Beijing, accounting for 42.3% of the total number of foreign tourists received by Beijing. Among the foreign tourists received by Tianjin, Hebei and Beijing also ranked the top two, accounting for 49.1% of the total number of foreign tourists received. During the Spring Festival in 2024, data from tourism platforms shows that the top five source destinations for tourists to Tianjin are Beijing, Shanghai, Tangshan, Shijiazhuang and Baoding. Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have achieved a prosperous cultural and tourism market with each other, and at the same time, it has demonstrated the huge potential for the coordinated development of cultural tourism in the three places.

Build a cultural brand together and prosper the performing arts market. On December 31, 2023, the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra opened the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei New Year Concert" at the Taihu Theater of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. According to statistics, since 2015, data from Tianjin Performing Arts Network has shown that there have been more and more performances in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, gradually increasing from dozens per year to hundreds per year, and reaching a total of 1,000 by 2023, including opera, quyi, drama, children's drama, music, acrobatics and many other artistic types. Over the past ten years, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have relied on various cooperation platforms to create cultural projects and co-organize cultural activities, jointly promoting the prosperity and development of the cultural performance markets in the three places, and demonstrating the vigorous vitality of the cultural fields of the three places.

Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have broad prospects and unlimited future for coordinated cultural development

In February this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Tianjin and put forward the important requirements of "four good works", which required good work and good achievements in promoting cultural inheritance and development, emphasizing "cultural people, benefiting the people with culture, running the city with culture, and developing the industry with culture". This important requirement provides scientific guidance and a strong impetus for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei culture, and also depicts a broad prospect and unlimited future for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei culture.

Adhere to the system concept and further work together to do a good job in top-level design. Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei should make overall plans for the layout of regional cultural development, conduct a unified survey of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cultural resources, and carry out overall planning for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cultural industry resources, and further optimize the regional division of labor and industrial layout on this basis, and break the institutional and institutional obstacles to the linkage development of the cultural field in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

Adhere to the people-centered approach, and make further concerted efforts to provide good public cultural services. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has established a public cultural service exchange mechanism, jointly explored new methods for the construction of the public cultural service system, formed public cultural services jointly built and shared by the adjacent areas of the three places, jointly promoted the construction of digital infrastructure, improved the level of public cultural services in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei by improving digital application capabilities, and promoted the equalization and standardization of public services.

Adhere to the promotion of culture and economy, and further work together to prosper the cultural and performing arts market. Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will further explore regional characteristic cultural resources, integrate the strength of artistic creation, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in artistic creation. At the same time, strengthen the exchange and cooperation of the cultural industries of the three places, clarify the development orientation and characteristics of their respective cultural industries, develop in dislocation, complement each other's advantages, share the market, and build a unified, coordinated and integrated regional cultural market.

Adhere to the principle of joint construction and sharing, and further work together to promote the in-depth integration and development of culture and tourism. Integrate the cultural and tourism resources of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, fully explore historical and cultural resources, and promote the in-depth integration and development of culture and tourism with cultural and plastic tourism and tourism. At the same time, the three places will create cultural tourism brands in line with their own characteristics through differentiation, realize the coordinated development of the cultural and tourism industries of the three places in complementarity, and promote the win-win development of the cultural and tourism industries in the three places in sharing.

Standing at a new historical starting point, we must continue to promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei with high quality, further promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei culture, adhere to top-level design and overall planning, further promote the improvement of regional public cultural services, promote the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, and promote the sharing and win-win situation of the cultural and tourism industries in the three places, so as to provide profound cultural support for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.