On October 8, 2018, the Two Millenniums of Maritime Silk Road Artworks Tour Exhibition in Europe Brussels (the Belt and Road Maritime Culture Industry Exchange Conference), a national art fund project sponsored by the China National Arts Fund, Shenzhen University and the Europe-China One Belt One Road (OBOR) Culture & Tourism Development Committee, organized by the Shenzhen University Ocean Art Research Center, co-organized by the China-EU Culture and Arts Festival Organizing Committee and supported by the Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union and the Culture, Sports and Tourism Administration of Shenzhen Municipality, was held in EU headquarters in Brussels. Prof. Tao Yitao, director of the China Center for Special Economic Zone Research (CCSEZR), Shenzhen University (SZU) and also dean of the Belt and Road Research Institute (Shenzhen) for International Cooperation and Development (BRRIICD), was invited to attend the event and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the arts exhibition. She also delivered a keynote speech themed "The Significance and Value of the Belt and Road Initiative and Inclusive Development" on the Belt and Road Maritime Culture Industry Exchange Conference.
The arts exhibition is inaugurated by Director Tao Yitao, Chairman Ujhelyi and others
Director Tao Yitao delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the arts exhibition
Prof. Tao Yitao praised the fact that as the only maritime culture and art research institution in China, Shenzhen University Ocean Art Research Center makes the maritime culture go global by holding the maritime culture and art exhibition in the European Union to tell the world about China's maritime culture story, which reflects that art is always the gentlest power to enhance mutual exchange and understanding between ethnic groups with different cultures and history. The Two Millenniums of Maritime Silk Road Artworks Exhibition is an important practice to promote cultural communication, art exchange and mutual understanding between China and Europe. At the Belt and Road Maritime Culture Industry Exchange Conference held by the Press Club Brussels Europe in the afternoon, Prof. Tao incisively expounded the significance and value of the inclusive development of culture and economic politics under the Belt and Road Initiative and won the unanimous recognition from the attendees. In the speech, Prof. Tao Yitao mentioned that the concept of the Belt and Road represents a kind of information and value orientation that China delivers to the international community and it is also a new way to cooperate with neighboring countries. The potential institutional asset for China and its partner countries to seek common development and prosperity - value identification - is the foundation of inclusive development. Inclusive development is not only a state, an idea or a value, but also the ideological basis for concluding a covenant that truly realizes cooperation and effectively seeks common prosperity. Considering today's economic globalization and the highly open international community building a prosperous future, the historical significance of inclusive development cannot be underestimated.
Professor Tao Yitao delivers a keynote speech
Ujhelyi Istvan, chairman of the Europe-China OBOR Culture & Tourism Development Committee exchanged in-depth views with the cultural officials of the People's Republic of China to the European Union and Director Tao Yitao. In the future, the two sides will carry out in-depth multilateral cooperation in the cultural field within the framework of the Belt and Road and make joint efforts to achieve common prosperity under the concept of inclusive development.
