Over 800 guests from China and foreign countries, 6 parallel forums, 32 professional salons, the release of multiple achievements, and the signing of several projects... From September 19th to 21st, the 2024 Beijing Culture Forum was successfully held with "Inheritance, Innovation and Mutual Learning" as its permanent theme, and "Deepening cultural exchange to achieve common progress" as its annual theme.
Spanning ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign cultures, and with a global perspective and a focus on the frontier, the 2024 Beijing Culture Forum deeply practices the Global Civilization Initiative, widely carries out cultural exchanges and mutual learning, showcases the essence of Chinese culture, exhibits the world's cultural essence, leads the trend of advanced culture, aggregates innovative forces in culture, and draws a new chapter for jointly promoting the prosperity and development of culture.
Exchange and mutual learning, Chinese and foreign guests seek common development
Focusing on issues including exchange, transmission, industry development, heritage, and communication of culture, Chinese and foreign guests gathered together to seek common development and offer suggestions so as to strengthen exchange and mutual learning, and jointly promote cultural prosperity. The participants expressed their beautiful vision.
The forum called for "cultural exchange that affects the world's safety and prosperity." As QiuXiaoqi, vice chairman of the China Public Diplomacy Association, said, "Whether we can surpass cultural barriers through cultural exchange, vanquish cultural conflicts through mutual learning, and transcend cultural superiority through coexistence, affects the world's safety and prosperity, and the future and destiny of all mankind." Just as the former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin eagerly expected, "Whether we are Chinese, French, or any good-hearted people, we must ensure that culture provides momentum for cooperation."
The forum described the bright future of "innovative development of traditional culture." Digital exploration has stirred traditional culture, making the game "Black Myth: Wukong" stand out and become a hot topic among Chinese and foreign people; digital technology has empowered the cross-border integration of the trend, making Wang Zhi'ou, the founder of BLACKBOW, full of confidence, "Using the language of ‘art plus technology', we will create popular works in Guizhou, Yichang, Luoyang, and other places."
The forum showcased "new momentum and achievements in cultural tourism development," with Chinese and foreign guests sharing touching scenes of rushing to a city to see a play, a performance, or a concert. Cultural empowerment for urban renewal has become a consensus to meet people's new expectations and needs for a better life. Faced with the popular immersive digital cultural tourism in recent years, scholars and experts at the meeting had a smart collision, "There must be a precise market positioning to create distinctive products; with the story as the core, enhance the emotional connection of the experience; cross-border cooperation to achieve resource complementary; continuous innovation to maintain the vitality of the project."
The forum jointly drew a beautiful future for the "Beijing Central Axis." JadTabbot, the honorary chairman of the International Council on Monuments and Sites Lebanon National Committee, exclaimed that the Beijing Central Axis "is an engine for growth and a center for innovation, responding to the changing needs of people." Roman Yano, the chairman of the French International Sunshine Documentary Festival, eagerly expected: "The Beijing Central Axis represents the order of the Chinese ideal capital city, and it has just been listed as a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, and I can't wait to see international documentary projects about it!"
Innovative, new atmosphere shows new achievements
The 2024 Beijing Culture Forum added 32 professional salons that are compatible with 6 parallel forums, and innovatively held a cultural industry investors conference, showing the new atmosphere and breakthroughs of the Beijing Culture Forum that is constantly innovating.
The Cultural Industry Investors Conference integrates the release of achievements, project signing, and on-site promotion, vividly reflecting Beijing's efforts to promote the widespread application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G plus 8K, AR/VR in the cultural field, and to promote technological innovation and achievement transformation in the cultural field.
"Please follow me, from the south comes a white-bearded old man, holding a white and white crutch..." The crosstalk performance artist Li Weijian and the robot have a peak competition in tongue twisters, and the atmosphere on the scene is cheerful and interesting. A pair of AI glasses that can explain and interact have also attracted everyone to experience, providing personalized, interactive, and multi-language supported guide services, recording and sharing tour experiences, making this pair of glasses very eye-catching.
The warm and interactive scene is also continuously staged in 32 professional salons. These professional salons focus on hot topics in cultural construction, and for the first time this year, they are open to the public, attracting public participation. At the "Gathering young film and television forces to let the world understand China" salon, Wang Yunshu from the School of Art and Media at Beijing Normal University listened attentively to the creative experiences of screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, and other practitioners in the film and television industry, and felt a lot, "Film and television practitioners must grasp the timeliness of the work, and have a dialogue with the times in creation; when considering the cultural and tourism transformation of film and television works, the importance of film and television IP operation cannot be ignored. This requires practitioners to break away from the inherent thinking pattern, and to treat the integration of the cultural and tourism industry with a craftsman spirit."
Based in Beijing, radiating nationwide and influencing the world
The high-profile "Top 10events in the construction of the national cultural center in 2023" were announced, and the "New features and trends: China-foreign cultural exchange report (2023)" was released, and a batch of the latest achievements and signing projects made a concentrated appearance. It highlights the strong spillover effect of the Beijing Culture Forum, which is based in Beijing, radiates nationwide, and influences the world.
Seven lost stone column cultural relics returned to the Old Summer Palace(Yuanming Garden), the three major cultural facilities of the Beijing municipal sub-center were opened, and "The Temple of Earth and Me" Beijing Book Fair and others shone in the "Fragrant Beijing"... These cultural events that are closely related to people's lives deeply participate in the spiritual and cultural life of the public, highlighting the capital's cultural strength.
In 2023, 78 imported films were released in mainland Chinese cinemas; the number of Chinese inbound and outbound tourists exceeded 190 million person-times; "Check-inaround China" became a new trend in global tourism... The "China-foreign cultural exchange report (2023)" shows a rapid recovery and positive overall trend in China-foreign cultural exchanges.
The China Water Museum China Pavilion was located in Bali, the animation game industry strategic cooperation platform was launched in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, and other ten provinces and cities, the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cultural and tourism industry collaborative development action plan" was released, the "China keywords: cultural relics and cultural heritage", multilingual series of books were unveiled, and the "King of Glory" Professional League Annual Finals were held in Beijing for the first time... Taking the Beijing Culture Forum as a platform, integrating and sharing, jointly embarking on a diversified cultural development path, bringing vitality and vitality to the world and China.
On-site visit, appreciating the new look of the ancient capital's cultural charm
Feel the cultural charm, savor the beauty of the ancient capital, appreciate the artistic scenery of Beijing, and Chinese and foreign guests attending the Beijing Culture Forum visited the city in six routes to feel the new pulse of Beijing's development.
Entering the hall of "Cultural context and artistic nourishment - China arts and crafts basic display exhibition", He Yalan, president of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, was lingering and forgetting to return, "These exquisite handicrafts, each one is a boutique, inheriting the craftsman spirit of the Chinese nation, spreading the excellent genes of Chinese civilization, and making people marvel."
Walking on the Liuyin Wharf of the sub-center, enjoying the performance in "Grand CanalDrama Season", experiencing the intangible heritage of the canal, and tasting the canal's delicacies, Chinese and foreign guests have been praising the rise of the sub-center. When visiting the Beijing City Library, Han Han, deputy dean of the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning at Wuhan University, was excited, "Beijing City Library is a new type of public cultural space, which is not only a reading space but also a display platform for the soft power of Beijing's urban culture."
In the Beijing Art Center, which is designed with the concept of "Cultural Granary", the "Time Together across the Strait · 2024 Beijing Culture Forum Special Art Performance" is magnificent. When artists from all over the world gather together, when dancers of folk dance and street dance compete in skills together, when musicians of folk music and Western music play together, the picture of Beijing's artistic scenery vividly unfolds to the world.
Before and after the Beijing Culture Forum, the "Grand Performances in Beijing" performance season, Beijing People Beneficial Cultural Consumption Season, Beijing October Literature Festival, and "The Temple of Earth and Me" Beijing Book Fair are brilliant, creating a warm cultural atmosphere, allowing the people of Beijing to share the rich achievements of cultural construction in the new era, and also reflecting the theme of the 2024 Beijing Culture Forum from multiple perspectives.
