BEIJING, April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from CRI Online:
On April 26, the 2024 "Belt and
Road" Creative and Sustainable Development Seminar, co-hosted by
the International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development
(ICCSD) and the School of International and Public Affairs at
Jilin University, was held at the
Lumicang New Audio-Visual Industrial Park in Beijing. Twelve participants from countries
including Afghanistan,
Ethiopia, Burundi, Ghana, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra
Leone, and Tanzania
attended the event.
As the special speaker of this seminar, Yang Baozhen, Former
Chinese Consul to France and
Member of the Advisory Committee of the UNESCO ICCSD, delivered a
lecture titled "How China Implements the UN 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development". She introduced specific measures and
significant achievements China has
made in recent years in areas such as poverty reduction, education,
health, women's rights, and international cooperation.
Participants expressed their admiration for China's tremendous achievements in poverty
alleviation, highlighting it as an inspiring example for developing
countries in promoting economic development and improving people's
living standards.
In the afternoon, the participants visited the Longfu Temple and
Wangfujing area in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Their first stop was the "FUNFLY"
project at Longfu Temple Phase II, an immersive flight experience
hall where participants experienced new cultural and tourism
experiences powered by digital technology. From the Meili Snow
Mountains to the Yellow River full of twists, from the Three Gorges
of the Yangtze River to Zhangjiajie's forest... A full-angle,
bird's-eye "flight" took the participants across beautiful
China.
Yetimgeta Asrat Maru from Ethiopia remarked that China's practice of using technology to
develop tourism is at the forefront globally. This form of digital
virtual tourism breaks through spatial and geographical
constraints, providing a very impressive experience for
tourists.
Digital cultural tourism is a new form of developing smart
cultural tourism, injecting new vitality into tourism
informationization. The participants also visited "The Great
Details", a digital exploration space for Chinese arts and crafts,
where they immersed themselves in "Along the River During the
Qingming Festival", experiencing a city walk in the streets of the
Song Dynasty, decoding ancient Chinese daily life between virtual
and real settings. Led by an intangible cultural heritage
inheritor, participants also tried to make Lord Rabbit figurines
with dough, getting up close to the charm of traditional Chinese
folk culture.
According to Tilipo Ngambi from Malawi, China
is currently enhancing the protection of traditional culture in
various ways, especially by using digital technology to promote the
protection of cultural diversity. The digital development of
culture vividly presents Chinese culture to the world, also
providing new opportunities for exchanges and mutual learning
between different civilizations.
It is known that the seminar was jointly hosted by the UNESCO
ICCSD and the School of International and Public Affairs at
Jilin University. It centered on
themes such as creativity, design, technology, urban renewal, and
sustainable development. Through lectures and field research, the
seminar shared China's
explorations and experiences in the field of creativity and
sustainable development with participants from countries involved
in the Belt and Road Initiative, promoting cultural exchanges and
mutual understanding, so as to collectively drive sustainable
development through creativity.
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