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Hu Yan:Construct Chinese Foreign
Cultural Strategy
By Chen Hong
PKU NEWS 2003—10—24
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=72148400
Peking University, Beijing, Oct. 24th, 2003: In recent years, greater attention has
been given to cultural and ideational aspects of international relations and
diplomacy. How to construct Chinese foreign cultural strategy in the new century? Hu
Yan, who works for Ministry of Culture of Chinese central government, answered this
question in the international conference named ―East Asia‘s View on World Culture‖.
Hu Yan started his presentation with the necessity and possibility of the construction
of Chinese foreign cultural strategy. Culture has played a more and more significant
role in contemporary competition of overall national power. Conflict and mergence
among different cultures have become obvious with the process of economic
globalization and political multi-polarism. He said, China has made great
achievement in the cultural communication with other countries, but the whole
strategy is not definite. Now Chinese increasing national power lays the foundation
for the construction of cultural strategy. The profound cultural tradition and the
prosperity of Chinese modern cultures also provide us with a good chance to
construct our cultural strategy.
Hu Yan pointed out that some relationships should be realized and dealt with
cautiously in the strategy formation, including the relations between culture and
development, tradition and modernity, nation and world, opening and stability. He
also listed the specific content of Chinese foreign cultural strategy as follows: First,
make full use of cultural resources from both domestic and abroad. Second, improve
Chinese cultural relationship both with developed and developing countries. Thirdly,
utilize three channels for cultural communication, that is, official communication,
social communication and multilateral communication. Fourthly, promote
communication and cooperation of culture industries. And finally, build up a
comprehensive culture developing system, a cultural security warning system and a
cultural crisis handling system.
Edited By : Hu Xiaoling
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