| China has made considerable progress
in cultural exchanges with other countries during the last five years,
Vice Minister of Culture Meng Xiso said Tuesday.
The Vice Minister said at a national working conference here Tuesday
that China's efforts to promote its resourceful culture to the world
have paid off. Breakthroughs in the scale and scope of cultural
exchanges have been made over the previous five years.
Official statistics show that since 1996 Chinese cultural delegations
to other countries and foreign cultural delegations to China have
numbered 210, and the ministry has signed more than 110 culture
exchange contracts with foreign counterparts. And the ministry has
approved over 7,950 projects involving 110,000 artists and staff
around the world.
In addition, Meng Xiaosi said, non-governmental cultural exchange
projects accounted for over 90 percent of the total.
According to the vice minister, her ministry has strengthened cultural
ties with the United States, Russia, Japan and European countries
in particular, which is in tune with the country's diplomatic policies.
She noted that big projects such as the China Arts Festival, China
Arts Week and China Cultural Relics Exhibition featured in the exchange
activities.
Meanwhile, her ministry made efforts to introduce outstanding cultural
forms from other countries beginning in 1996.
(People's Daily 05/15/2001)
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