On December 20th, the China-China Cultural Industry Forum co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People’s Government of Jiangxi Province and the Secretariat of the League of Arab States was successfully held in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province. This forum is one of the important parts of the 5th Arab Art Festival. Hu Heping, Minister of Culture and Tourism of China, Ye Jianchun, Governor of Jiangxi Province, and Nura Bint Mohammad Caabi, Minister of Culture and Youth of the United Arab Emirates, and other 170 representatives from government agencies, academic circles and enterprises in China and Arab countries participated in the forum online and offline.
Speech by Minister Hu Heping
Hu Heping pointed out in his speech that cultural industry cooperation is an important part of China-Arab cultural exchanges and cooperation. Both China and Arab countries have a long history and splendid culture, and are at an important stage of social and economic development. They have common development goals and great potential for cooperation in the field of cultural industries, with broad prospects and great potential. The two sides should strengthen policy docking, industrial docking, enterprise docking and project docking to create new highlights for cultural cooperation between the two sides.
Nura Bint Mohammad Caabi believes that the cultural industry has become an important pillar for countries to achieve sustainable development and income diversification. It is hoped that both Arab countries and China will take this forum as an opportunity to lead the development of innovative industries and talents, and make contributions to promoting innovative economy and sustainable development at a higher level.
Address by Minister Nura Bint Mohammad Caabi
In his speech, Ye Jianchun said that in the future, Jiangxi Province will further deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields with countries around the world, including Arab countries, and continue to promote mutual learning and mutual learning of civilizations, mutual benefit in commerce and trade, and mutual understanding among the people.
Speech by Governor Ye Jianchun
Representatives of Chinese and Arab cultural institutions and enterprises focused on the theme of “integrating and advancing together to empower the future-creating a new situation of Sino-Arab cultural industry cooperation”, focusing on digital cultural industry, handicraft innovation, cultural and creative park development and other characteristic areas to exchange industry status, share successful cases, connect cooperation intentions and look forward to development trends, which injected new vitality and provided new impetus for cultural industry cooperation between China and Arab countries.
As a result of the forum, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China also issued the Jingdezhen Initiative of China-Arab Cultural Industry in 2022.