On May 18th, Seminar on “Creative Transformation and Innovative Development” of Qi Culture and Symposium on the 35th Anniversary of the Establishment of Qi Culture Research Institute of SDUT was held in the conference room on the second floor of Xingyuan Hotel. The theme of meeting is joining hands to promote Qi cultural imparting and inheriting in the new era.
BAI Yugang, a member of Standing Committee of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, director of the Publicity Department, Secretary of the Education Working Committee of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee attended the opening ceremony, together with WANG Zhimin—former vice chairman of the Provincial CPPCC Committee and honorary dean of the Qi Culture Research Institute of SDUT, WANG Zhenzhong—a member of the Academic Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and former deputy director of the Institute of History, WEI Changmin—deputy director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shandong Provincial Party Committee, BAI Hao—executive vice president (executive vice dean) of the Party School of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee (Shandong Academy of Governance), GUO Chengyan—Party secretary and deputy director of the Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies, WANG Kun—a member and vice chairman of the Party Group of the Shandong Provincial Social Science Federation, XING Shunfeng—deputy secretary of the Education Working Committee of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Group of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education, WANG Bingchun—a member and deputy director of the Party Group of the Shandong Provincial Ministry of Culture and Tourism, HAN Jianwen—deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, and well-known experts like ZHENG Kai, CAO Feng, FANG Ming, FANG Hui, and TU Keguo. Secretary of the CPC Zibo Municipal Committee, MA Xiaolei, presented at the meeting, along with LEI Xia, member of Standing Committee of the CPC Zibo Municipal Committee and head of the Publicity Department, as well as secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT—HU Xingyu and president of SDUT—LI Yuxia.
Qi culture is an important component of culture of Qi and Lu, and is one of the important sources of fine Chinese traditional culture. Since its establishment 35 years ago, Qi Culture Research Institute of the SDUT has launched a series of works to sort out and and elaborate on Qi Culture, and carried out communication and mutual learning activities such as dialogues between Chinese and Western classical civilizations. The institute has played an important role in Qi Culture’s academic research, inheritance and popularization, talent cultivation, dissemination and communication.
It is advocated at the meeting that, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, it is highly necessary to take comparative advantage of the potentiality of Shandong culture to further deepen academic research, strengthen heritage protection, integrate into daily life, to promote the integration of culture and tourism, and to advance communication and exchange. We also need to strive to create a new benchmark of “Creative Transformation and Innovative Development” of fine Chinese traditional culture and contribute to powerful China and national rejuvenation through exploring Chinese modernization construction featuring harmony between material civilization and spiritual civilization. The City of Zibo is to vigorously promote the “Creative Transformation and Innovative Development” of fine Chinese traditional culture, and to expand the era value, social value, and economic value of Qi culture through penetrating into leading research and interpretation, strengthening vigorous protection and inheritance, creating influential cultural brands, expanding competitive cultural and tourism supply, and innovating imaginative consumption scenarios.SDUT is to build a “Greater Qi Cultural Research Institute” with a high standard, further strengthen its research capabilities, refine its research directions, and vigorously promote the deep integration of digital technology and Qi culture in order to assist the construction of Qi cultural inheritance and innovation demonstration zones.The Qi Culture Research Institute of SDUT is to deepen cooperation, competition and innovation inside and outside the institute, deepen the cooperation with domestic and provincial universities and research institutions and scholars, and achieve major breakthroughs in Qi culture research with high quality to build a provincial first-class and nationally renowned academic institution.
At the opening ceremony, a video named “That is Where the Research of Qi Culture Starts” was played, and a donation ceremony for Professor WANG Zhimin’s editorial works was held. Subsequently, an Expert Symposium on the “Creative Transformation and Innovative Development” of Qi culture was held. Focusing on the research, interpretation, inheritance, and popularization of Qi culture, the attending experts and scholars conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on the construction of cultural Zibo, literature resource integration, project research, as well as talent introduction and training.