On 8 November 2015, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), attended the opening ceremony of the Maritime Silk Road Art Park (Asia) held in Quanzhou, Fujian Province.
Mr. Zheng Xincong, Secretary of the CPC Quanzhou Municipal Committee presided over the ceremony. H.E. Mr. Li Shulei, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Provincial Committee and Head of the Publicity Department of Fujian Province, H.E. Mr. Ding Wei, Vice Minister of Culture of China, delivered remarks. H.E. Mr. Luo Shugang, Minister of Culture of China, announced the opening of the Maritime Silk Road Art Park. Around one thousand participants took part in the activities, including Mr. Phinij Jarusombat, former Vice Prime Minister of Thailand and the incumbent President of Thai-Chinese Cultural and Friendship Council, Mr. Bundit Limshoon, Secretary-General of the Provisional Secretariat of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), Ambassadors and representatives of Asian diplomatic missions to China.
The Silk Road Art Park was built by Quanzhou to be a permanent public service area under the “Belt and Road” concept, utilizing the impact of the well-established cultural exchange platform of Asia Art Festival. It embraced the history of friendly exchanges between China and other Asian countries along the ancient Maritime Silk Road as the major theme, with sculptures, water features, architecture designing and other artistic expression, showing cultural features of different countries and regions along the Road, the history of economic and cultural exchanges between China and other Asian countries and the important role that the Silk Road had played in the development of Asian countries.
Secretary-General Yang was interviewed by the Quanzhou Radio and Television and other local media.
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