China News Service, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, December 20th (Reporter Liu Zhankun) As one of the important components of the Fifth Arab Art Festival, it is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Government of Jiangxi Province, and the Secretariat of the League of Arab States. The China-Arab Cultural Industry Forum was held in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province on the 20th. 170 representatives from government agencies, academic circles, and enterprises from China and Arab countries participated in the forum online and offline.
Hu Heping, Minister of Culture and Tourism of China, pointed out in his speech that cultural industry cooperation is an important part of China-Arab cultural exchanges and cooperation.
Both China and the Arab countries have a long history and splendid culture. Both are at an important stage of social and economic development. In the field of cultural industries, they share common development goals and huge potential for cooperation. They have broad prospects and great potential.
The two sides should strengthen policy docking, industry docking, enterprise docking, and project docking to create new highlights for cultural cooperation between the two sides.
Noura bint Mohammad Al Khaabi, Minister of Culture and Youth of the UAE, believes that the cultural industry has become an important pillar for countries to achieve sustainable development and income diversification.
It is hoped that the UAE and China will take this forum as an opportunity to lead the development of innovative industries and innovative talents on both sides, and contribute to promoting an innovative economy and a higher level of sustainable development.
Ye Jianchun, Governor of Jiangxi Province, said in his speech 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 among civilizations, mutual benefit in business and trade, and people-to-people bonds.
At the forum that day, representatives of Chinese and Arab cultural institutions and enterprises centered on the theme of "Integration and Co-progress to Empower the Future - Creating a New Situation for China-Arab Cultural Industry Cooperation", focusing on exchanges in characteristic fields such as digital cultural industry, handicraft innovation, and development of cultural and creative parks The status quo of the industry, shared successful cases, docked cooperation intentions, and looked forward to the development trend, injecting new vitality and providing new impetus into the cultural industry cooperation between China and Arab states.
As a result of the forum, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China also issued the "2022 China-Arab Cultural Industry Jingdezhen Initiative".
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