This year, in order to show the moving deeds of SCO member countries in promoting the “Shanghai Spirit”, solidarity and cooperation, and jointly combating the COVID-19, artists from all member countries have created many excellent works showing boundless love. On November 24, under the guidance of the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Health and Health Commission, the “Invitational Exhibition of Aiwujiang · Contemporary International Artists’ Works” opened at the General Hall of the West Lake Museum in Hangzhou. Pan Jiawei, Chairman of the CPPCC Municipal Committee, delivered a speech. Zhang Haizhou, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Saeed Zoda, Ambassador of Tajikistan to China, attended the meeting. Nearly 100 Chinese and foreign artists and guests attended and exhibited more than 150 art works from SCO member countries.
Pan Jiawei welcomed the guests and Chinese and foreign artists who came to the exhibition. He pointed out that Hangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city, a city of ecological civilization, and a city of innovation and vitality. It has been the “happiest city in China” for 14 consecutive years. Hangzhou is also a harmonious and inclusive city of great love. The precise intelligent control of the “health code” and the “most beautiful retrograde” of the medical team assisting Hubei have contributed to the prevention and control of COVID-19.
Hangzhou will continue to give full play to its advantages of profound historical and cultural heritage, developed private economy and digital economy, further strengthen exchanges and cooperation with SCO member countries, and promote mutually beneficial and win-win development. It is hoped that artists will give full play to their advantages, actively carry out artistic creation, work intensively in the field of humanities, and make new and greater contributions to promoting people-to-people and people-to-people exchanges and friendly exchanges.
In the afternoon of the same day, city leaders Pan Jiawei and Wang Lihua also met with Zhang Haizhou and Saeed Zoda.