Chinanews.com, Kunming, January 19th (Reporter Miao Chao) "Chaoci Chuncheng Caiyun, sitting on the high-speed rail to see the sea, the green hills are everywhere, and the sea breeze is blowing..." On January 19th, by China News Network and The original rap song "Take the High-speed Rail to See the Sea" co-produced by China News Agency's Yunnan Branch was officially launched, and three generations of musicians, old, middle-aged and young, jointly wrote a new chapter in China's opening up to the outside world.

  The original rap song "Seeing the Sea on the High-speed Rail" was composed by famous Yunnan lyricist Jiang Mingchu and young composer Yue Shaopeng, arranged by Yunnan pop music producer Guo Xuanyu, and national first-class composer Wan Li as music director.

Famous Yunnan female singers Deng Guoqing, Pan Weiyu, and rapper Ming Xinjie sang together and filmed the MV on the China-Laos railway train.

The song is sung in Chinese style and mixed with rap, which is refreshing.

  After the song is released on China News Network, it will be released successively on news media and social platforms in China, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and other countries.

The picture is provided by the organizer of the MV stills of "Take the High-speed Rail to See the Sea"

  Yunnan Province, located in southwest China, is the hub connecting China to the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, the Indochina Peninsula and the Indian Ocean.

For thousands of years, the Sichuan Poison Road, the Southern Silk Road, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and now the "eight outbound provinces and five outbound" railway network have allowed the flow of personnel, economic and trade exchanges, and cultural exchanges between the border Yunnan and the outside world to continue.

  Yunnan's advantage lies in its location, and its way out is open.

Jiang Mingchu, the lyricist of "Take the High-speed Railway to See the Sea", said that this song sang from the Ancient Tea-Horse Road to the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and then to the China-Laos Railway. It also sang Yunnan's efforts and willingness to actively participate in the "Belt and Road" construction in recent years, to make up for shortcomings in transportation infrastructure, and to accelerate external connectivity.

The picture is provided by the organizer of the MV stills of "Take the High-speed Rail to See the Sea"

  2023 is the tenth anniversary of the "Belt and Road" initiative.

As a landmark project of the "Belt and Road", the China-Laos Railway has been in operation for more than a year, which has promoted the economic and social development of China and Laos and witnessed the friendship between China and Laos. A bond of communication.

At this year's two sessions of Yunnan Province, Wang Yubo, governor of Yunnan Province, said in his government work report that Yunnan will continue to expand the golden effect of the China-Laos railway and open cross-border passenger trains in due course.

  Jiang Mingchu, who was in his seventies, told reporters that when he wrote the lyrics for this song, it coincided with the first anniversary of the opening of the China-Laos Railway, so he wrote in the lyrics "China-Laos Railway connects rivers and seas with great integration of east, west, south, north", hoping that China-Laos Railway can Continue to extend forward, and give play to the demonstration and driving effect, accelerate the construction of the China-Laos-Thailand Railway and the China-Vietnam and China-Myanmar international railway passages, and help Yunnan realize the opening vision of connecting the river and the sea.

  "Rap is not a unique form of music in the West, such as Suzhou Pingtan and Jingyun Dagu. These are China's own rap music. Yunnan has many ethnic groups and rich languages. In many places, 'speaking is better than singing', such as Jianshui rap in Honghe, Zhaotong singing is a form of rap in Yunnan folk music." The composer of "Going to the Sea by High-speed Rail" is 49-year-old Yue Shaopeng, executive director of the Yunnan Pop Music Society.

He said that the reason why this song was chosen in the form of a mixture of Chinese style music and rap with a taste of Yunnan is to express the desire of Yunnan people for cultural exchanges with foreign countries, and also to hope that people from all over the world can come to Yunnan and learn about the rich and colorful ethnic customs here. , folk music and folk rap.

  The rap part of this song is performed by Ming Xinjie, a rapper born in Baoshan, Yunnan in 1999.

He had tried to perform rap in Baoshan dialect before, and was sought after by local young people.

"Rap emphasizes individuality. The younger generation of Yunnan rappers should fully explore the elements of local ethnic folk rap, and then integrate them with different music elements from around the world. I believe they will be able to present a different splendor."

  It is understood that "Going to the Sea on the High-speed Rail" will be performed on the evening of the 20th as the blockbuster song of the 2023 "Spring Blossoms" China-India-Cambodia-Mongolia Spring Festival Gala, sending New Year blessings to Chinese people at home and abroad and friends from all over the world .

  The China-Laos Railway is just the starting point, not the end point. The giant steel dragon will carry friendship, harmony, dreams and hopes across thousands of miles of mountains and seas, heading for a better tomorrow.

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