Literary and artistic "concentric circles" empower the bright future of the Bay Area
——The 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Art Cooperation Summit
Recently, the 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Art Cooperation Summit was held in Guangzhou. Starting from the national strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the summit aims to creatively transform and develop Lingnan culture in the context of the new era, explore a new path for the construction of the humanistic bay area, and provide a new paradigm of literary and artistic expression for Chinese-style modernization.
Theme salon, cooperation signing, project release, city exchange, Bay Area art exhibition, film forum, poetry forum... The participating literary and art workers shared the experience of the Bay Area in literary and artistic creation in the new era, and jointly sought the high-quality development of literature and art in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Build a humanistic bay area with an efficient and linkage literary and artistic mechanism
Culture is the root and soul of a city.
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao belong to the same Lingnan culture, with similar regions, similar cultural contexts, similar folk customs and complementary advantages. Shaping the humanistic spirit of the Bay Area and enhancing the cultural soft power of the Bay Area is the meaning of the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
In 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which clearly proposed to "jointly build a humanistic bay area" and focus on "giving full play to the comprehensive advantages of the long-term convergence and coexistence of Chinese and Western cultures in the Greater Bay Area, promoting exchanges and cooperation between Chinese culture and other cultures, innovating people-to-people exchanges, enriching the content of cultural exchanges, and improving the level of cultural exchanges".
In October 2021, with the approval of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, the first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Art Cooperation Summit was held in Zhuhai, marking the official establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Art Cooperation Summit mechanism. The mechanism is led by the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Associations, and jointly established by the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature and the Hong Kong Member Association of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Associations, the Macao Chinese Cultural Friendship Association, and the Federation of Literature and Culture in nine cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing.
At this summit, participants once again discussed the opportunities and prospects of cultural and artistic cooperation in the Bay Area. Zhang Hong, member of the leading party group and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Federation of Literary and Art Associations, said that the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Literary and Art Cooperation Summit is of great significance to give full play to the advantages of the geographical proximity and affinity of literary and artistic organizations and artists in the Greater Bay Area, promote the cohesion of the literary and artistic circles of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, strengthen cooperation, resource sharing and complementary advantages, better carry out high-level and normalized dialogue and cooperation, and promote the high-quality and high-level development of literary and artistic undertakings in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with greater vigor.
"'Greater Bay Area Literature and Art' is a productive and evocative new form of literature and art, which focuses on building development characteristics that are oriented to the world and the future." According to Jiang Shuzhuo, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Writers Association, the language, living habits and cultural customs of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have commonalities, and the greatest common divisor can be found in future cultural exchanges and cooperation.
Bu Xiting, deputy dean of the Institute of Cultural Development of Communication University of China, pointed out that as the power of culture becomes more prominent in urban construction, "culture +" has become a new industrial economic growth point. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area conforms to the trend of the times, strengthens cultural construction with an efficient linkage mechanism, nurtures the people of the Bay Area with more and more valuable cultural and artistic products, empowers industrial development with excellent cultural and artistic creations, helps sustainable urban development, tells the stories of the Bay Area and China with cultural and artistic achievements with strong local characteristics, and strives to build a cultural window for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
The "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" has been internalized into the creative pursuit of writers and artists in the Bay Area
After two years of development and exploration, the mechanism of the Literary and Art Cooperation Summit has transformed from ideas to actions, connecting dots into lines to surfaces, taking root in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and breaking waves in China's literary and art circles.
Since 2021, the Summit has successively cultivated and developed brand activities such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Literary and Art Innovation Forum, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Folk Art Exhibition, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Acrobatic Art Week, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Taiwan Youth Art Calligraphy Works Exhibition, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Quyi Art Culture Week, promoted the construction of the joint conference system for literary and artistic work between Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and promoted the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between Zhuhai and Macao.
Liang Hua, President of the Macao Chinese Cultural Association, said that since the first summit, the Macao Chinese Cultural Friendship Association has held a series of activities for the 2021 and 2022 Haojiang Spring - Macao and Mainland artists' Gala, and carried out the "Macao-Zhuhai Literary and Art Walk" activity with the Zhuhai Municipal Federation of Literature and Art, and carried out cultural and artistic exchanges and mutual visits with the Jiangmen Municipal Federation of Literature and Art, and achieved good results.
Ma Fengguo, president of the Hong Kong Member Association of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Associations, said that since the beginning of the year, the Hong Kong Federation of Literary and Literary Associations has received visiting delegations from Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Foshan and other cities. Last year, the Hong Kong Federation of Literature and Art held a video literary and art exchange symposium with the Shenzhen Federation of Literature and Art, and the two sides signed the "Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement between the Hong Kong Member Association of the China Federation of Literature and Literature and the Shenzhen Federation of Literature and Art". This year, the Shenzhen Federation of Literature and Culture visited the two sides to conduct in-depth discussions on the implementation of the above-mentioned strategic cooperation framework agreement and reached preliminary intentions.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Publicity Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Guangdong actively joins hands with Hong Kong and Macao to promote the construction of the humanistic bay area. Organise two editions of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival to promote cultural integration through a series of cultural activities; Focusing on themes such as reform and opening up, he jointly launched a large number of excellent works such as the symphonic poem "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the TV series "Children of the Bay Area" and "Under the Lion Mountain", the movie "Storm", and the novel "Swallow Food"; With the help of various festivals and exhibition activities, vigorously promote exchanges and visits of literary and artistic talents, organizations, groups, institutions, etc., so as to realize resource sharing and complementary advantages of the three places.
This year, as an important part of the 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Literary and Art Cooperation Summit, a series of art exhibitions, film forums and poetry forums were held, presenting a beautiful picture of cultural and artistic cooperation in the Bay Area——
"Beautiful Bay Area" – an exhibition of Chinese paintings, oil paintings and animation works focusing on the new development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; The first "Light and Shadow Charm" Bay Area Film Cooperation Forum provided intellectual support for the development of the Bay Area film industry; The "Green Bay Area" Invitation Exhibition of Fine Arts brings together the masterpieces of first-line artists and young art backbones in the "9+2" cities in the Greater Bay Area; "Poetry Landscape of the Bay Area in the New Era" Poetry Forum explores the development prospects of poetry in the Greater Bay Area...
Wu Huaqin, deputy secretary of the party group and full-time vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literature and Culture, said that the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" is no longer an abstract concept, but has been internalized into the conscious consciousness and active creative pursuit of individual writers and artists in the Bay Area, and literary and artistic masterpieces with its theme continue to emerge.
Jointly create a highland for mutual learning between literature and art, and build a global art center in the Greater Bay Area
On the new journey, the vigorous development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has opened an unprecedented broad stage for literary and artistic cooperation, and provided incomparably rich themes and materials for literary and artistic creation.
Li Jinkun, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literature and Art, said that in the future, it is necessary to take the "9+2" cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as the core, take the integration of literary and artistic exchanges as the starting point, jointly build the literary and artistic ecology of the Bay Area, cultivate the consensus on the development and value consensus of the humanistic Bay Area, promote the innovative development of Lingnan culture in the new era through the integration of literature and art in the Bay Area, promote the integration of the humanistic spirit of the Bay Area with the industrial economy, commercial form, cultural consumption, life services and other scenarios in the Bay Area, and provide a steady stream of soft power support for the sustainable development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"It is necessary to jointly create a highland of mutual learning and integration of literature and art, and build a global art center in the Greater Bay Area." Learn from the excellent literature and art created by people around the world, adhere to the use of foreign countries for Chinese use, pioneer and innovate, and achieve the combination of Chinese and Western integration. Li Jinkun said.
Li Pengcheng, secretary of the party group and chairman of the Guangzhou Federation of Literature and Culture, said that Guangzhou is making every effort to launch the four major cultural brands of red culture, Lingnan culture, sea silk culture and innovative culture, and build a city model of socialist cultural power. Guangzhou's four major cultural brands not only belong to Guangzhou, but also belong to the common cultural context and spiritual home of the Greater Bay Area, and protecting and inheriting and promoting this traditional cultural context is an important mission and responsibility of Guangzhou's literary and artistic work, and it is also an important way to "shape the humanistic spirit of the Bay Area".
He Wei, Chairman of the Hong Kong Member Branch of the China Literary and Art Critics Association and Honorary President of the Hong Kong Film Critics Association, believes that we should focus on the characteristics of Guangdong culture and the representative cultural brands in Cantonese culture that have overseas influence, and jointly establish a cultural brand in the Greater Bay Area on this basis.
At this summit, the Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Hong Kong Member Association of the China Federation of Literary and Artistic Associations, the Macao Chinese Cultural Friendship Association and the Nine Cities of the Pearl River Delta jointly launched the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Literary and Art Development Research Project, which will conduct in-depth discussions and research on the Bay Area Literary and Art Development Index and Bay Area Youth Literary and Art Creation. At the same time, the summit also admitted eight units, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, as member units to continuously broaden the ways and paths of cultural and artistic exchanges in the Bay Area.
Yan Bing, Vice President of Guangdong Yongsheng Animation Co., Ltd., one of the member units, shared his development vision: "As a member of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we hope to bring better cultural products to users around the world through the innovation and development of digital animation, and at the same time promote cultural exchanges and cooperation in the Bay Area, helping to build a more complete and vibrant cultural ecology. ”
(Reporter Liu Jiangwei and Wu Chunyan) (Guangming Daily)