Facing the sea, compose a new song of the Yangtze River. Tonight (September 21), the 2024 Yangtze River Cultural Festival, hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Suzhou Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by the Propaganda Department of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Zhangjiagang Municipal People's Government, and the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, opened in Zhangjiagang.
Xu Ying, Member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, Chen Siyu, Deputy Director of the Department of Policies and Regulations of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Yang Fahang, Secretary of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the China Quyi Artists Association, Li Xianzeng, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Provincial Film Bureau, Xu Ning, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Yang Zhichun, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Liu Xudong, First-level Inspector of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Jin Jie, Member of the Standing Committee of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, and Zha Yingdong, Deputy Mayor of Suzhou City, attended the opening ceremony.
With the enthusiastic and melodious Amdo playing and singing "Amalai", the opening ceremony performance kicked off. With the theme of "Facing the Sea", the opening ceremony of this year is divided into three chapters: rivers as the source, rap as the edge, and great love as the circle, bringing together outstanding quyi performance teams along the Yangtze River and humorous artists at home and abroad, including Kunming rap "Sleepy · Pillow", Suzhou Pingtan rap "Happy Suzhou People" and other unique literary and artistic programs with regional and ethnic characteristics of the Yangtze River, as well as the burlesque program "Museum Horror" that innovatively expresses the collision of representative cultural relics of the East and the West and the group comedy "Foreigners Look at Poetry" that shows the resonance of global youth culture. It fully demonstrates the open temperament and international vision of this Yangtze River Cultural Festival.
It is understood that the 2024 Yangtze River Cultural Festival will continue the theme of "integration· promotion and · sharing", adhere to the government-led, linkage along the Yangtze River, provincial co-promotion, and social participation, and carefully launch 14 wonderful activities around the five theme sections of "cultural relics, intangible cultural heritage, art charm, walking, and openness", strengthen exchanges and cooperation from the "source of the Yangtze River" to the "tail of the Yangtze River", and jointly tell the "story of the Yangtze River" in the new era.
This year's Yangtze River Cultural Festival thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, vigorously promoted high-quality cultural resources to the grassroots level, and focused on public participation in a series of activities. Actively link the provincial cultural resources, hold a large-scale picture scroll "Yangtze River Spring Map" special exhibition, engraved Shenghui - water rhyme Jiangsu · woodcut prints exhibition of 100 views of the Yangtze River and "Famous Artists on 100 Scenes" Yangtze River cultural salon and other activities, inviting traditional folk customs, regional culture, and advanced concepts. Continuously enrich the supply of high-quality culture, the "Watching the Yangtze River" intangible cultural heritage folk collection will take intangible cultural heritage as the element to create a new scene of cultural tourism integrating exhibition, performance, food, sports, experience and consumption, carry out the screening of the documentary film "Meet the Yangtze River Again" and the promotion and experience activities of the theme cultural tourism route, launch the cultural tourism mini-drama "I met the river god in Zhangjiagang", hold the "Yangtze River in Poetry· the Port of the Yangtze River" elegant collection of talks, the first "Tian Han Cup" writing, directing and acting skills competition and the "Yangtze River Cup" Yangtze River Basin Sketch Competition and other activities. Attract more people to pay attention to the Yangtze River culture and Zhangjiagang.
The river is not stopped, and the context is endless. In 2024, based on the whole Yangtze River, the panorama of Chinese civilization and the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, Jiangsu will promote the radiation level of the Yangtze River Cultural Festival with high standards, and invite Qinghai Province as the guest of honor province for the first time to participate in key activities such as the opening ceremony and the intangible cultural heritage folk customs collection, so as to promote high-quality cooperation in the field of culture and tourism in dialogue, exchange and sharing, and highlight the long history of Chinese civilization.
In 2004, Zhangjiagang, which was born because of the Yangtze River, based on the Yangtze River, the cultural matrix of blood interdependence, innovatively held a festival with the theme of Yangtze River culture. Over the years, Zhangjiagang has joined hands with various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities along the Yangtze River to break the regional barrier of Yangtze River culture, and the cultures of the snowy region, Bayu culture, Jingchu culture, Wuyue culture, Shanghai culture and other river basin cultures reflect each other, and the splendid and colorful Yangtze River customs converge and collide, highlighting the unique charm and value of the Yangtze River culture.
Up to now, the Yangtze River Cultural Festival has carried out more than 180 cross-regional large-scale public welfare cultural activities, attracting more than 500 million people to participate online and offline, and has successively won the Innovation Award of the 2nd Ministry of Culture, the "Most Internationally Influential Festival" of China's Outstanding National Festival, and the "Regional Linkage Brand Activity" of the National Mass Cultural Activity Brand Plan. From the "leftovers" in southern Jiangsu to the "top three" of the top 100 counties in the country and the "six consecutive crowns" of the national civilized cities, Zhangjiagang, which adheres to the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, is making every effort to build the Yangtze River Cultural Festival into a platform for the protection, inheritance and promotion of the Yangtze River culture, an important project for the construction of the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, and a Chinese cultural brand with important influence at home and abroad.
Han Wei, Secretary of the Zhangjiagang Municipal Party Committee, said that Zhangjiagang will continue to work with all localities along the Yangtze River to protect, inherit and carry forward the Yangtze River culture around the general requirements of "exploring new experiences in the construction of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation", based on the geographical advantages of the Yangtze River Delta integration and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and uphold the spirit of the rushing rivers and the mind of the intersection of rivers and seas, and continue to work together with all parts of the Yangtze River to protect, inherit and carry forward the Yangtze River culture, and make greater contributions to promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
(Su Daily Financial Media Reporter Yang Yi Trainee Reporter Zhang Donghui Text/Photo)
Editor: Jin Ran