Editorial: Universal Studios Beijing is grandly open at this time, and the signal conveyed is more than a thousand words

Source: Global Times

Universal Studios Beijing officially opened its doors today, and China's opening up to the outside world has borne another fruit, which is gratifying. China now has Hong Kong and Shanghai Disney in the south, Universal Studios in Beijing in the north, and three large -- "foreign theme parks" settled in China, two of which are operating in the largest cities in the north and south of the mainland, which constitutes a contour line of China's opening up to the outside world, and also reflects China's economic progress and the continuous rise of national consumption capacity. The consumption outlook of China's middle-income group is constantly refreshing, and it has been injected with the rhyme of modernization.

Yang Lei, deputy mayor of Beijing's Tongzhou District, predicts that Universal Studios Beijing's annual revenue will exceed 10 billion yuan. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the tourism industry, with sales of theme parks generally declining around the world, but it is hoped that China's dynamic zeroing capacity will release increasingly protective forces for the tourism industry. Universal Studios Beijing will become a new "barometer" for China's tourism industry, wishing it good luck and better performance.

In fact, with the continuous development of China, the vision of the people of this country has been broadened simultaneously, the self-confidence of national culture is also rising, and the attractiveness of Western cultural symbols in Chinese society should be said to have passed the peak period in previous years. However, some Western cultural symbols still have a large fan base in China, and the entire Chinese society is friendly to them.

Theme parks such as Universal Studios and Disney can continue to gather popularity in China, reflecting the open and friendly attitude of Chinese society to external culture, which is the overall inclusiveness of Chinese culture. Many Chinese are willing to join in some of the common excitement of globalization, and some young Chinese are willing to join the international fashion, which is in harmony with their growing interest in their own cultural symbols. It reflects that China's development is not psychologically a zero-sum exclusivity, but a process of integration with the world. China's opening up to the outside world is getting deeper and deeper, and integration is its depth.

Of course, Chinese society is a super-large-scale, the way of gathering and sharing interests is quite complex, cultural diversity is very common, values are also very diverse, foreign cultural criticism and welcome have always existed at the same time, and the current deterioration of Sino-US relations has indeed seriously affected the atmosphere of Cultural Exchanges between China and foreign countries.

It must be said that the timing of the opening of Universal Studios Beijing is more special, and the high-intensity competition between China and the United States and the new crown epidemic are "pinching" it. But even so, universal studios Beijing's future has left many analysts optimistic. If there are other large theme parks in the world that have opened in the past two years, it is hard to believe that any of them is more worth looking forward to than the performance of Universal Studios Beijing.

Sino-US political relations have fallen to the point where many people use "cold peace" or even "cold war" to describe it, but the grand opening of Universal Studios Beijing presents the enthusiasm for Sino-US people-to-people exchanges and the energy of exchanges that are still expanding.

A small number of American politicians who are obsessed with confrontation are so detached from the "fireworks of the world", they are different from the great reality of the times, and their strategic calculations are in the opposite direction of the daily concerns and interests of the two peoples. Therefore, from the perspective of big history, those American politicians must be headwinds and headwinds, and they are busy with their work, and they will be doomed to leave behind any merits worthy of praise by future generations.