您现在位置是：This wonderful exposition and gathering celebrates Chinese culture from classic painting and calligraphy……… to contemporary printing and publishing and film production………and now cutting-edge digital media and creative design.
It confirms China’s assimilation into the global community and signals your desire for a two-way cultural exchange with the rest of the world.
And thanks to technology, reaching the rest of the world is easier than ever before.
Close your eyes and imagine that you can share – from a computer -- the wonder of China with nearly everyone on earth.
What one facet of Chinese culture would you select?
Would you choose to share the changing faces, Xingtou, graceful dance and martial arts of the Peking Opera?
Or do you want movie-goers to take in an epic Chinese film recounting the war and revolution in the 1940s or the tragedy and melodrama of Chinese legend?
Or, would you take this opportunity to introduce the world to today’s China…..the highly sought-after paintings created by contemporary artists in Beijing’s 798 Space arts complex?
Not only is all this possible, it’s all happening now. Made possible through the Internet, satellite, cable and even mobile phones, cultural dialogue is thriving.
The Internet, in particular, has broken through national boundaries and collapsed cultural divides. For developing countries like China, it provides equal footing for cultural exchange with the west.
It also bridges the gaps within borders, between developed and undeveloped communities.
Here in China, you have such enormous differences among urban and rural areas, eastern and western regions, big cities and small towns.
Just think about all the Chinese citizens who have never walked beside the Great Wall, ventured through the Meridian Gates into the Forbidden City, or seen the agility and precision of contemporary Wushu.
And, consider the millions and millions of Chinese who will be totally unaware of -- and untouched by -- the economic, political and social impacts of the Beijing Olympics.
A stronger and deeper cultural exchange within China will help unify this very diverse nation and push economic reform even further ahead.
All of this points to the tremendous opportunity for vibrant world-wide exchange about the Chinese culture.
You can foster this increasingly important dialogue in a number of ways.
First, continue to vigorously develop China’s cultural industry through expositions such as this that focus on both classic and emerging arts. This will help create a thriving cultural market and enhance the industry’s international competitiveness.
Next, I hope you will continue to create opportunities to present the Chinese culture beyond your borders. A truly successful example are the more than two hundred (200) Confucius Institutes throughout the world that are promoting Chinese language and culture and supporting local Chinese teaching.
Another important strategy is to accelerate efforts to build online publications, music libraries, databases and virtual museums.
In this area, China already has an impressive track record. More than four hundred and fifty (450) publishers in China have created the largest single-language e-bookstore in the world.
Your academic community has an equally impressive history of collaboration, creating an extensive online collection of Chinese journals. Students can even download hundreds of lectures made by your country’s leading professors.
Whether government-organized or privately sponsored, these information clearinghouses allow you to accurately impart Chinese culture, past and present.
They are also channels for you to counter biased and sometimes negative views of China put forth by overseas media.
And all of these tools make it almost effortless for those living abroad to study and learn about China.
Within China, online education can harness the power of technology to eliminate inequities between remote villages and urban centers. Online classes through the Internet can easily and effectively expand access to education.