China News Service, Beijing, March 4 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) "Currently, the digitization of Chinese traditional cultural classics, including Buddhist classics, still faces many problems such as lack of talent, resource sharing, and platform construction." Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice Chairman of the Buddhist Association of China The president, Master Yinshun, the abbot of Hongfa Temple in Shenzhen, suggested accelerating the digitization of Chinese traditional cultural classics.

The great monk Yinshun.

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  During the two sessions of the National People's Congress, Monk Yinshun put forward "Suggestions on Accelerating the Digitization of Traditional Chinese Cultural Classics", "Suggestions on Strengthening the Construction of the Air Silk Road and Launching Direct Flights to the Buddhist Holy Land of Lumbini in Nepal" and "Suggestions on Collaborating with Social Forces to Assist Elderly Care Services, Suggestions on Creating an “Age-Friendly” Society” and other three proposals.

  Monk Yinshun believes that strengthening the digital construction of traditional Chinese cultural classics, using modern information technology to process documents, and allowing traditional Chinese cultural classics to resonate with digitalization will promote the protection and inheritance of traditional cultural classics, continue the blood of national culture, and strengthen the country. Cultural soft power plays an important role in promoting the new vitality and brilliance of Chinese culture.

  "Compared with the volume of existing Chinese traditional cultural classics, there is still a huge gap in the scale of digitization of existing traditional cultural classics, and there is great room for improvement in the level of sharing and openness of digital results and in-depth mining capabilities." Monk Yinshun said, professional The lack of talents has become a key factor restricting the digitization process of traditional cultural classics. It is necessary to strengthen the training of compound talents and establish a talent attraction and incentive mechanism.

  He suggested strengthening cooperation and communication among professional institutions, universities, libraries, museums and other institutions, opening up resource channels for all parties, and improving resource sharing mechanisms; making full use of modern scientific and technological means to build an open and interactive Chinese traditional cultural classics database platform.

  In terms of creating an "age-friendly" society, Monk Yinshun suggested accelerating the construction of community elderly care service facilities and continuing to improve the systematicness, accuracy and inclusiveness of the supply of elderly care services; developing professional ethics, professional knowledge and positions for elderly care services Skills training promotes the professional development of the elderly care industry.

In addition, religious forces can be actively promoted to participate in elderly care services and charity.

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