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21:07, 21-Dec-2017
China: Improving cultural exchanges with foreign countries
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China will strengthen cultural exchanges with foreign countries with a document issued in July by the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council.
The document said that national reform and development is the foundation of improving the work of foreign cultural exchanges.
Critical are innovating the high level cultural exchange mechanism and reforming the content, form and methods of cultural exchanges in various fields.
The document also stressed to build a number of brands with Chinese characteristics and generate international influence on the basic principles of people-oriented, equality, openness and tolerance, mutual learning mechanism, multi-party participation and innovation.
Nov. 21, 2016: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, and Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his wife Nancy Lange at an exhibition of 121 selected pieces of Chinese treasures spanning over 5,000 years after the closing ceremony of the China-Latin America and Caribbean 2016 Year of Culture Exchange in Lima, capital of Peru. /Xinhua Photo
Nov. 21, 2016: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, and Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his wife Nancy Lange at an exhibition of 121 selected pieces of Chinese treasures spanning over 5,000 years after the closing ceremony of the China-Latin America and Caribbean 2016 Year of Culture Exchange in Lima, capital of Peru. /Xinhua Photo
The document also calls for wide participation, mobilizing the enthusiasm of the central government, local governments and the society.
Overseas Chinese, volunteers and overseas investment of Chinese enterprises should actively participate in cultural exchanges. Professional and international social organizations and folk forces are also encouraged to participate in the projects of cultural exchange.
Efforts should be made to strengthen the international promotion of Chinese language, supporting more countries to incorporate Chinese language teaching into the national education system and striving to make Confucius institute a world-class language promotion institution.
Chinese and foreign film and television, publishing institutions and the media to carry out joint production, joint interview, co-publishing are encouraged.
(Top image: Dancers from Cambodia perform during the first Maritime Silk Road International Dance Week in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, December 2. /Xinhua Photo)
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