(Year-end special) Hong Kong｜Strengthen cultural infrastructure and enhance soft power Hong Kong is committed to building a "cultural city"

　　China News Agency, Hong Kong, December 30th (Reporter Suo Youwei) The Hong Kong Palace Museum, known as the latest cultural and artistic landmark in Hong Kong, has welcomed more than 600,000 visitors in less than half a year since it opened to the public. Hong Kong's cultural landscape in 2022 adds a splash of color.

Data map: The picture shows the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

China News Agency reporter Li Zhihua

　　The Hong Kong Palace Museum is located in the West Kowloon Cultural District. Although the main color of the gate of the Palace Museum is vermilion and the door studs are decorated, it has a "modern" appearance like a square tripod, which is completely different from the traditional architectural style of the Palace Museum. different.

Wu Zhihua, director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, once said in an interview with the media that he pursued a "different Forbidden City", and the Hong Kong Palace Museum represents not only a new cultural landmark in Hong Kong, but also a cultural facility in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. a part of.

　　The West Kowloon Cultural District, as the bridgehead for Hong Kong to build a center for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and foreign countries, is the most important art and cultural infrastructure of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government after the return of Hong Kong.

After the Xiqu Center and the M+ Museum were completed successively, the Hong Kong Palace Museum was born after several years of preparation and construction. The opening exhibition launched in July 2022 is amazing: among the 914 pieces from the Palace Museum’s collection that appeared in the exhibition, about It is the first time for Qicheng to exhibit in Hong Kong. This is the largest and highest-level cultural relic exhibition since the establishment of the Palace Museum in 1925. It has given profound connotations to this new cultural infrastructure in Hong Kong.

Data map: The picture shows students visiting the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Photo by Chen Yongnuo

　　The national "14th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to support Hong Kong's construction of a center for cultural and art exchanges between China and foreign countries, adding endogenous impetus to Hong Kong's cultural development, and the completion and opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum is an important milestone for Hong Kong to implement the "14th Five-Year Plan" .

　　Just two months after the opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the "Hong Kong New Coordinates: Sino-foreign Cultural and Art Exchange Center" summit forum was held in Hong Kong. In his speech at the forum, Li Jiachao pointed out that the SAR government is following four directions and is committed to promoting the shaping of Hong Kong. To become a "Cultural Capital", specifically include: gradually establish world-class cultural facilities and multicultural spaces, provide soil for artists, art groups and practitioners, and jointly nurture cultural and artistic creations; strengthen exchanges and cooperation with mainland and overseas art and cultural institutions , to further establish Hong Kong's status in the international art scene; to grasp international trends, allocate additional resources to encourage the cultural and creative industries to embrace digital technology; to expand Hong Kong's cultural and artistic talent pool.

Data map: The picture shows citizens visiting the exhibition held by the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Zhihua

　　According to Ma Fengguo, a member of the Hong Kong National People's Congress and a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Hong Kong has a free, open, and active cultural atmosphere, and has the conditions to develop a center for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and foreign countries; there are more than 5,000 art groups in Hong Kong, which are conducive to Chinese and foreign culture and art At the same time, with the completion of cultural facilities such as the Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kong's cultural venues and other hardware facilities are gradually improving, and Hong Kong's cultural soft power will also gradually increase.

　　The newly established Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Cultural Tourism Bureau") of the Hong Kong SAR government is an important deployment made by the SAR government to enhance cultural soft power.

After the establishment of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism, it will hold the Asian Cultural Cooperation Forum 2022, inviting ministers of culture and high-level officials from South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and other countries to participate in it to promote cultural cooperation in Asia.

This is also in line with the goals set out in the first policy address issued by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr Lee Kar-chau.

The policy report made a single elaboration on the construction of a Sino-foreign cultural and art exchange center, and announced a series of measures to promote the development of culture, art and creative industries to a new level.

　　Lin Tianxing, executive vice president of the Hong Kong Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Hong Kong Artists Association, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that from the perspective of a Hong Kong artist, he was excited to witness the changes and efforts in Hong Kong's cultural and artistic development over the past year. Excitement; the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is also paying more and more attention to the development of Hong Kong's culture and art. Not only the West Kowloon Cultural District is full of highlights, but the East Kowloon Cultural Center will also be opened next year; more and more young people in Hong Kong like art, and cultural and art institutions are also more and more popular. more.

　　"Hong Kong still has a long way to go to become a center for cultural and art exchanges between China and foreign countries. It requires the joint efforts of the SAR government and the whole society. Hong Kong should have an academy of fine arts or art college so that more young people can display their ambitions in art .” Lin Tianxing added.

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