The 2022 Culture City of East Asia -- Changsha Cultural Week and the "The Symphony of Sand and Fire -- Exhibition of Glass Culture Along the Silk Road" raised the curtain at the Changsha Museum on September 9th. Tan Ping, director of the Art Exhibitions China, and Chen Peng, Standing Committee member and Publicity Department director of the CPC Changsha Municipal Committee, attended.

Cultural exchanges in various fields and forms will be carried out online and offline during the cultural week. In the context of normalized epidemic prevention and control, the event aims to explore innovative ways of international cultural exchanges and cooperation, present Changsha's cultural characteristics and urban charm to the world, and further raise the city's international profile as the "Culture City of East Asia". 

Changsha was conferred the title of "Culture City of East Asia" in 2016, together with Kyoto, Japan, and Daegu, the ROK. This is Changsha's first international cultural calling card. Over the years, the three cities have been strengthening cultural ties among China, Japan and the ROK, telling stories of cultural interactions, exchanges and integration in East Asia, and building a bridge of friendship and cooperation among the peoples of China, Japan and the ROK.

In his speech, Chen Peng said that exchanges and mutual learning enrich civilizations. China, Japan and the ROK are geographically close and culturally connected. As a cultural bridge, the "Culture City of East Asia" embodies the three countries' common perception of culture and continuously promotes their cultural resonance. Consequently, cultural cooperation and people-to-people exchanges among cities of the three countries have been strengthened. Changsha will take the cultural week as a new starting point to promote economic and trade cooperation through cultural cooperation, regional exchanges through urban exchanges, and non-governmental interactions through official interaction, to pass on friendship from generation to generation, carry out regular exchanges, develop mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation, and jointly write a new chapter of cultural exchanges and cooperation among China, Japan and the ROK.

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn