Secretary General Li Xikui led a delegation of diplomatic envoys and cultural officials 19 people to Jiangxi to attend the activity of “Jointly commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Tang Xianzu, Shakespeare and Cervantes” co-hosted by CPAFFC and government of Jiangxi Province. CPPCC Vice Chairman Ma Biao, deputy secretary of Jiangxi provincial Party committee, acting governor Liu Qi, Ambassador of Ecuador Mr Jose Borja, Chile ambassador Mr Heine, Spanish Minister-counselor Mr Jose Luis Garcia and British regional cooperation counsellor Mr Nick Low attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech, nearly 6000 Chinese and foreign friends attended the opening ceremony.
Chairman Ma Biao pointed out that held in Jiangxi to commemorate the activities is the implementation of specific initiatives important speech of general secretary Xi Jinping in the work of the forum and visit to Britain during the important proposal, for us to further promote the fine traditional culture, promote cultural exchanges, enhance road confidence, theoretical confidence, confidence in the system, cultural self-confidence and it will have a positive role.
Secretary General Li Xikui said in his speech, regarding the culture as media to promote international cultural exchange of people, frequently able to quickly narrow the distance between the people of the countries. He hoped that in the future China, the United Kingdom and Spain, three countries can take turns to hold commemorative activities, so as to establish a long-term mechanism to commemorate the three masters of the cultural. Our association will continue to do a good job of international cultural exchanges messenger for the people of all countries to share their literary and artistic essence and exchanges and mutual authentication results to create more opportunities, but also for the cultural and creative industries to build a broader platform for cooperation.
During the activity, the CPAFFC organized the diplomats and the overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Jiangxi Province, Fuzhou City, Linchuan district culture and tourism representative to attend the face-to-face exchanges, all parties engaged in the culture, tourism, education and foreign cooperation projects actively speak, from Chinese and Western drama culture, intangible cultural heritage cultural heritage perspective, understand the rich connotation and the development status of Jiangxi, and to explore the possibility in Jiangxi province and the country to carry out cultural exchanges and cooperation.
In addition, the delegation also attended the the opening ceremony of Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall, Zixi County Culture Study and other activities, and watched the arrangement by the University of Leeds in the UK "Nanke dream" and the Spanish Embassy recommended a flamenco dance drama "Quixote". Rich and colorful activities helped diplomats have a deeper understanding of the culture of Jiangxi, the Cultural Tour is highly appreciated.
Diplomatic envoys and cultural officials "Cultural Tour" Jiangxi station activities lasted from September 23 to 26, through the investigation of Jiangxi Province’s ecological culture, to showcase Chinese culture image, let all the diplomats through close feeling and experience China local culture, increase the acknowledge of Chinese excellent traditional culture and contemporary cultural and it has a profound meaning.
