Foshan Sanlong Bay is on fire again. On the evening of the 24th, the finale of the 2021 Foshan Sanlong Bay China-Europe Culture Week - the final of the 2021 Foshan City Folk Song Contest and the Sanlong Bay Music Festival was held, singing Foshan with the poetry and power of folk songs, showing the charm of Foshan and enhancing the influence and cohesion of Foshan.
From October 15th to 24th, the 2021 Foshan Sanlong Bay China-Europe Cultural Week was staged. With culture as a bridge and art as a link, Sanlong Bay has gone one step further towards the goal of the "Lingnan" cultural display living room in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the China-EUROPE international art exchange platform.
As a major provincial platform for Foshan to promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area and Sanlong Bay, a leading area for the integrated development of Guangzhou-Foshan, it is an important force for Foshan to participate in the multicultural innovation construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the birthplace of Guangfu culture in Lingnan culture, the space for locals and outsiders to live and build together in the new era, and its strong and high-quality private economy is also a representative of diversity and innovation in Lingnan culture.
Ancient and modern are integrated with each other, And China and foreign countries complement each other, and Sanlong Bay has such endowments and confidences.
As the organizer, the Management Committee of Foshan Sino-German Industrial Service Zone (Sanlong Bay) has launched the China-Europe Culture Week activities since last year, making it the largest and most abundant concentrated appearance of European culture and brands in Foshan and even South China in recent years.
The China-Europe Cultural Week is a grand event in Sanlong Bay, but also a major event for Foshan's external display and exchange, which is not only to build a platform for cultural integration, but also to display the image of the city and create a first-class business environment. Feng Xingliang, chief representative of the Beijing and Guangzhou International Commerce Agency of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, often comes to Foshan, and when he returns to Foshan to participate in the cultural week activities, he excitedly sighs: Every time he comes to Foshan, there are different feelings!
The 2021 Foshan City Folk Song Contest Finals and Sanlong Bay Music Festival were held at the Qingqing Stage of Foshan New Town Riverside Landscape Belt Park.
International and local
Diversified cross-border interpretation of cultural feast
On the evening of the 24th, the 2021 Foshan City Folk Song Contest ushered in the final battle, which also brought the ten-day China-Europe Culture Week to a successful end.
On the stage, the musical "new generation" from all over the country sang folk songs with heavyweight guests on the same stage; strivers rooted in all walks of life in Foshan sang the theme song of the competition "To Your Ballad"; and Chinese folk song leaders Wan Xiaoli, Toy Captain Band, New Field Orchestra and other folk song predecessors brought unique and wonderful live folk songs interpretations, using a musical festival to show the urban charm of Sanlong Bay.
This is just one of the many great programmes of CEIBS Culture Week.
From 15 to 24 October, 2021, The 2021 China-Europe Culture Week will present a number of cultural feasts for the public to integrate international and local, modern and traditional. It is understood that this cultural week is divided into three major sections: "Wenhui Sanlong Bay", "Leju Sanlong Bay" and "Fun Sanlong Bay", on the basis of the concept of public welfare, environmental protection and inclusiveness in previous sessions, a diversified cross-border of creative elements such as tide play, music, design, parent-child, brand, and coffee has been carried out.
Foshan is a vibrant city where history and modernity blend, and "Wenhui Sanlong Bay" showcases its culture and tolerance. In foshan City Library, interactive lectures on topics such as classical music enlightenment and European culture and science popularization have been carried out one after another, and it is difficult to find a ticket. In the theme lecture "Circle of Opera Circles", soprano singer Cui Zhengrong introduced how to appreciate opera through the switching of overtures and interludes, the use of actors' costumes and other forms of expression through the classic singing sections of Italian operas such as "La Traviata" and "Country Knight", and invited the chinese national opera "Yimeng Mountain" to sing live representative singing segments, vividly showing the integration and innovation of Chinese and European art performance forms.
Continuing the tradition and daring to innovate, the "Fun Enjoy Sanlong Bay" activity has attracted the attention of many young people. In Foshan Xincheng Cultural Street Square, the three theme markets of "brand, coffee and tide play" have recruited a total of 46 merchants to participate. Among them, the European brand market is composed of 30 brand merchants from Germany and Italy, the number of merchants has doubled, and the category is complete and the audience is wide, attracting many citizens to come to feel the fun of "sea shopping" at the doorstep.
What is impressive is that this China-Europe Culture Week opened with a Sino-European music feast in the centennial ancestral hall and ended with a sensational urban folk song contest. "Leju Sanlong Bay" makes the city of Foshan out of the circle because of the songs, and it is full of music. At the Foshan Grand Theatre, Lu Yiwen, winner of the "Double Gold Award", joined hands with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra 'Fei Yue' string quartet to play Chinese and Western famous songs with erhu and Western violins with oriental cultural labels; at the Sanlong Bay Cruise, the charming jazz at the "Tingjian Sanlong Bay" Juese Autumn Concert opened a water town journey where Lingnan beauty and Italian coffee cross-border collision.
As Lei Shenglong, lead singer of the Mask Band from northwest Guangdong, said, the China-Europe Cultural Week allows more people to discover Foshan and experience foshan's profound historical and cultural heritage and the vibrant innovation and entrepreneurship atmosphere of Sanlong Bay.
At the 2021 Foshan City Folk Song Contest Finals and Sanlongwan Music Festival, fans held up their hands and held up cards to cheer for their favorite singers.
Culture connects the world
Accelerate the pace of internationalization
The practice of reform and opening up enlightens us: opening up brings progress, and closure is bound to lag behind.
After the rapid development since the reform and opening up, Foshan Butterfly has become a famous manufacturing city in China, which is the biggest feature of Foshan and the strongest background color of Foshan.
Looking back at Foshan in 2012, that year, foshan Sino-German Industrial Service Zone came into being, positioning industrial services, shouldering the mission of cooperation between Germany and Europe, and being the only platform for all-round cooperation between Guangdong Province and Germany.
The starting point is synchronized with the world, and Foshan's internationalization journey ushers in a golden period. In the nearly 10 years since its establishment, the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone has actively explored new paths for Sino-German cooperation and accumulated rich experience in serving German enterprises in exploring the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area market.
In 2019, the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone added the Brand of Sanlong Bay Management Committee to start a new round of development. In December of that year, Sanlong Bay participated in the 2019 German-Chinese Economic Summit activities, held the "Tidal Rise of Sanlong Bay - Intelligent Manufacturing Foshan Opportunities" promotion meeting, and issued a warm invitation to global innovation resources: Foshan Sanlong Bay, China's Sanlong Bay, the world's Sanlong Bay, welcome global entrepreneurs to share business opportunities.
In October last year, the 2020 China-Europe Culture Week series of activities was launched, and the China-Europe Cultural Corridor, the German Commodity Design Exhibition, the China-Europe E-commerce Festival, the series of cultural exchange lectures, the Fangta Music Festival and other activities presented a cultural feast of international and local integration, the collision of modern and traditional, and established a new brand of foreign exchanges between Sanlong Bay and Foshan.
At the end of last month, the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone City Brand Promotion Conference entered Shanghai for the first time. From the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to the Yangtze River Delta, Sanlong Bay has been meticulously prepared and the events have been well received.
At the scene of the promotion meeting, the reporter noticed that in front of the seats of Chinese and foreign guests, there was such a picture album - the exquisite packaging box said "City of the Future", including a simple and atmospheric "Foreseeing Sanlong Bay", the cover was printed with a line: "The Future City Carrying China's Intelligent Manufacturing Dream", and the second cover is the four strategic positioning of Sanlong Bay: the world-oriented advanced manufacturing innovation highland, the open cooperation benchmark on the west bank of the Pearl River, the Guangzhou-Foshan Integration Development Leading Zone, and the high-quality Lingnan Water Town City. The middle of the album is also interspersed with beautiful Foshan paper cuts.
Behind such details is the firm pace of Sanlong Bay's internationalization. The relevant person in charge of the management committee of the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone (Sanlong Bay) said that over the years, the management committee has some experience in serving German enterprises - the key is to achieve the word "professional". Today, in Foshan, the best German speakers in Sanlong Bay are in Sanlong Bay, and the People in Foshan who are most familiar with the German situation are also in Sanlong Bay.
Professionals do professional things, which is experience and the credo of action. At the 2021 Foshan Sanlong Bay China-Europe Culture Week, "professionalism" was everywhere. Before the opening ceremony, Chinese and foreign guests were led to visit and set up interactive display scenes of intangible cultural heritage such as embroidery, paper-cutting, kung fu and sculpture, and also invited non-hereditary inheritors to display their skills on the spot. "Culture has no borders, and I think it is particularly meaningful for more foreigners to understand Lingnan culture and Foshan paper-cutting this China-Europe Culture Week." Rao Baolian, a provincial non-hereditary heir of Foshan paper-cutting, said.
A cultural week opened the window of Foshan, showed the heritage of Foshan, and accelerated the pace of internationalization of Sanlong Bay.
At the opening ceremony of the 2021 Foshan Sanlong Bay China-Europe Cultural Week, high-tech talents from FAW-Volkswagen and Jihua Laboratory performed the program "Our Wonderful".
First-class business environment
We sincerely invite high-quality resources to land
The business environment includes both soft and hard aspects, and urban culture is also an indispensable and important factor for creating a first-class business environment. High-end and high-quality cultural activities are not only a platform for display, but also a measure to optimize the business environment and provide the supply of high-end cultural and sports activities.
As a national historical and cultural city, Foshan is accelerating the construction of a world kung fu city, with distinct cultural characteristics and certain external attractions. However, as a manufacturing city, Foshan has left more of a traditional and pragmatic and even "industrial" stereotype to the outside world.
Tan Weiliang, a member of the CPPCC Municipal Committee, believes that young people's nostalgia for a city lies in the beautiful scenery of the good day, but also in the cultural habitat. It can be said that the cultural attractiveness of the city is directly related to the business environment, which is an indispensable and important factor for creating a first-class business environment, "which can give new connotations to traditional culture and make Foshan 'tide'".
Foshan "tide" up, Sanlong Bay station front. Zhu Xixiong, deputy director of the management committee of the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone (Sanlong Bay), said that the China-Europe Cultural Week activities lasted for 10 days, hoping to build the China-Europe Cultural Week into a high-end cultural feast of Chinese and Western cultures through a series of activities with rich forms, further optimize Foshan's international business environment, attract more high-end talents and enterprises to settle down, expand investment attraction, and comprehensively enhance the value of the city to create better conditions.
Zheng Canru, vice chairman of the Foshan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that at present, Foshan will create a first-class business environment as the "No. 1 reform project", and the 2021 Foshan Sanlong Bay Sino-European Culture Week will further hold the hands of cooperation with Germany and Europe with culture as the medium, which is of positive significance for Sanlong Bay to expand international exchanges and cooperation and expand its influence, which is conducive to telling the story of Foshan, the story of the Bay Area and the story of China to the outside world.
Telling the story of Foshan, Sanlong Bay actively creates a first-class business environment and sincerely invites German and European enterprises to land and develop.
Shi Mingde, president of the Sino-German Friendship Association, believes that Foshan plays an important role in Sino-German cooperation, and the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone has accumulated rich experience in serving German enterprises and opening up the market in the Greater Bay Area.
"What is a good business environment? I think it's about making the businesses that come here feel like home. The relevant person in charge of the management committee of the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone (Sanlong Bay) said that Sanlong Bay has carried out effective work in the construction of foreign language service teams, high-quality education supply, the creation of high-quality characteristic cultural activities, the development of the market for German enterprises, and the establishment of the Sino-German Industrial City Alliance, laying a solid foundation for the project to settle in.
Next, Sanlong Bay will continue to optimize the business environment, enhance the service capabilities of German and European projects, try first, create a new platform for high-level opening up, strengthen industrial spatial planning, ensure contiguous industrial land, recruit international high-end scientific and technological talents, create a talent highland, improve urban quality, build a high-quality ecosystem in the Greater Bay Area, improve the attractiveness of exhibitions and exhibitions, and build a convention and exhibition industry ecosystem.
Thomas Fritzsche, founder of the German architecture firm, said that the company has carried out hundreds of projects in China, and then hopes to learn more about the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the coordinated development of Chinese enterprises, "We are also looking forward to coming to Foshan and building a bigger platform in Foshan."
Ten years of trees, a hundred years of tree people, Sanlong Bay for a long time, ushered in the harvest season.
Wen 丨 Foshan Daily reporters Qin Zhengpeng and Lu Shuai
Picture 丨 Foshan Daily reporters Fu Shihe and Wang Weinan
Edited by Zhou Shiling