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On July 18th, the 2023 China Network Civilization Conference, International Exchange and Mutual Learning Forum on Network Civilization, sponsored by the China Academy of Cyberspace Studies, the Chinese Language Global Program Center, and China News Network, was held in Xiamen under the guidance of the Central Cyberspace Administration, the China Radio and Television Administration, and the China News Agency. This forum explores topics such as strengthening exchanges, mutual learning, and coexistence of online civilization, and Chinese and foreign experts discuss ways to promote international exchange of online civilization.

The following are excerpts from the views of some of the guests:

hu jinjun, deputy director of the central radio and television station:

Promote the construction of network civilization and build a bridge for international exchanges

Hu Jinjun, deputy director of China Central Radio and Television, said that to strengthen international exchanges and mutual learning of network civilization, we must strengthen cultural self-confidence and tell the story of Chinese civilization through cyberspace; we must adhere to the United States and the United States, and guide young people around the world to actively participate in the exchange and mutual learning of network civilization. China Central Radio and Television will continue to undertake the cultural mission of the new era, promote the construction of network civilization, build bridges for international exchanges, carry out extensive cooperation with enterprises and research institutions from all over the world, promote the exchange and mutual learning of excellent cultures from all over the world, gather the civilized forces of all mankind, forge ahead on a great journey, and create a better future together.

China News Agency President Chen Jun:

Highlight the Story of Mutual Learning among Civilizations in International Communication

Chen Jun, president of the China News Agency, said that at present, civilized exchanges play an important role in global dialogue, and the Internet has increasingly become the main carrier and important channel for civilized exchanges. As a cross-cultural international communication organization dedicated to promoting mutual learning among civilizations and people-to-people bonds, China News Service and China News Service have made good use of comparative narratives in recent years, highlighting the story of mutual learning among civilizations in international communication, paying attention to the use of the Internet as a medium, focusing on innovating the way of network civilization exchange in the integration and development, deeply ploughing the characteristic advantages, striving to expand the breadth and depth of international cooperation in cyberspace, and adhere to innovation, contribute to promoting the construction of network civilization and building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

Network Civilization Exchange: Discussing the Way to Development Together

Hou Ningbin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Curator of Shaanxi History Museum and Director of Shaanxi Cultural Relics Exchange Center:

Take Care of Network Spiritual Home with Civilization and Mutual Learning

Hou Ningbin, Secretary of the Party Committee, Curator of the Shaanxi History Museum and Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Exchange Center, said that cyberspace has become the common spiritual home of hundreds of millions of people. In recent years, the Shaanxi History Museum has continuously enriched the supply of online cultural products, and has produced and launched various types. Popular online cultural experience products. Civilizations communicate because of diversity, learn from each other because of communication, and develop because of mutual learning. Under the guidance of the concept of accelerating the construction of a community of destiny in cyberspace, we should take care of the spiritual home of the network with mutual learning among civilizations.

wang kai, founder of uncle kai's storytelling brand:

Hope that high-quality children's content carries the essence of Chinese culture "going out"

Wang Kai, founder of the Uncle Kai storytelling brand, said that he hopes that high-quality children's content can carry the essence of Chinese culture, reach more foreign children who want to understand Chinese culture, and become a beautiful link for the next generation of national friendship. At the same time, it can also reach the Chinese compatriots living overseas, so that China's cultural influence can also reflect extraordinary value on the next generation of overseas Chinese; I also hope that I can "go out" with a good culture, learn from the excellent culture of the world in the process of communication and collision, and "bring back" the good cultural content ".

perfect world chief executive officer xiao hong:

Enterprises Need to Take Social Responsibility to Promote the Global Spread of Chinese Excellent Culture

Xiao Hong, CEO of Perfect World, said that at present, China is actively advocating the construction of a "community with a shared future in cyberspace", and the new economic environment has shaped a new context for global cultural exchanges. The Chinese advocate "harmony but difference" and "melting all things into the invisible" and have already told us how to do it. Internet digital culture enterprises should not only produce excellent products and pursue market success, but also bear social responsibility, have a positive impact on the sustainable development of society, and play a positive role in the global spread of Chinese excellent culture. work with more colleagues to explore and form the "Chinese model" of cross-cultural communication and communication, and promote the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations.

Michel Genovese, Honorary Chairman of the Belgian International Joint Initiative Multilateral Cooperation:

The Internet brings new challenges and problems, and needs to jointly study solutions.

Michel Genovese, Honorary Chairman of the Belgian International Joint Initiative Multilateral Cooperation, said in a video speech that human beings use, need and rely on tools, networks and infrastructure related to Internet civilization, which shapes and promotes all aspects of our social development, but also creates new challenges and problems, such as the so-called "digital divide", due to the lack of financial, geographical, social and technological availability, not everyone is likely to gain the benefits of connectivity; there are also the potential negative effects of Internet use, such as the harm of Internet addiction to cognitive development, the harm of information overload to public or private boundaries, and the harm to social relations and communities. These new problems and challenges require common solutions.

Network Civilization Mutual Learning: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Integration

Shen Weixing, former deputy editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily and researcher of the Institute of Civilization and Communication of Zhejiang University City College:

Civilization is the Spiritual Root of Internet Development

Shen Weixing, former deputy editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily and a researcher at the Institute of Civilization and Communication of Zhejiang University City College, said that civilization is the proper meaning of the growth and development of the Internet and should become the spiritual root of the Internet. He believes that in the Internet era, we should attach great importance to the leading role of network civilization in the development of today's society, and let the historical logic of civilization give the network world its due spiritual character, spiritual outlook and spiritual temperament, so that the majority of netizens can deeply understand the strong spiritual calling power of civilized weather.

Wang Jianxin, chief scientist of the Silk Road Archaeological Cooperation Research Center:

The study of the Silk Road should not only have a Western perspective, but also an Eastern perspective.

Wang Jianxin, chief scientist of the Silk Road Archaeological Cooperation Research Center, said that the history of the Silk Road is the history of the collision, exchange, interaction and integration of Eastern and Western civilizations in Eurasia. For a long time, due to various reasons, Chinese scholars' research on the Silk Road is mainly limited to the domestic part. Since the Silk Road was a major channel for transportation, communication and interaction between the East and the West in ancient times, the study of the Silk Road must not only have a Western perspective, but also an Eastern perspective. Only in this way can our understanding of the history of the Silk Road be true, accurate and comprehensive. Therefore, in the field of international Silk Road archaeological research, Chinese scholars cannot be absent.

Xiao Ke, member of the Advisory Committee of the China-Arab States Expo:

China's Story Could Bring Hope to Other Developing Countries

Xiao Ke, a member of the Advisory Committee of the China-Arab States Expo, said that in the eyes of foreign young people, China's most prominent feature is not just the "infrastructure giants" in the past. Now China's high-speed rail, China's multinational e-commerce, China's game companies, and China's Social software is very attractive to them, that is, China's external public products have changed from road construction and hydropower station construction in the past, it is turning into social networking software and games for building networks, building high-speed rail and going out to sea. The rise of China has made the lives of the Chinese people better, and it is also beneficial to other countries in the world. China's story can provide successful cases for the vast number of developing countries to learn from and bring them hope.

Martin Albrau, a world-renowned sociologist and member of the British Academy of Social Sciences:

China has been at the forefront of supporting global governance

Martin Albrau, an academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences, said in a video speech that China has always been at the forefront of supporting global governance. In 2013, China proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, which marks China's active participation in the process of global governance. An important step has been taken.

In his view, the community of human destiny can be understood in any language. It is natural for the Chinese people, and in turn has made great contributions to the creation of a global language.

Coexistence of Internet Civilization: Building a Spiritual Home Together

Wang Xinsheng, deputy secretary of the Rizhao Municipal Committee of Shandong Province:

To add a domain of light for the construction of cyberspace community of destiny

Wang Xinsheng, deputy secretary of the Rizhao Municipal Party Committee of Shandong Province, believes that cyberspace is an extension and mapping of the real society and an important part of the construction of social spiritual civilization. In recent years, Rizhao City has always insisted on taking the construction of network civilization as an important part of the construction of spiritual civilization, creating a brand of "positive energy every day" and enhancing the influence of network civilization. Highlight the cohesion of the whole people and create a "new pattern" of co-construction and sharing; Highlight global coverage and draw "concentric circles" online and offline; Highlight all-media communication and enlarge the "positive energy" of cyberspace ". Rizhao will fully learn from the typical experience of other cities, and contribute to the promotion of a new style of network civilization and the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

chen xuerong, director of the network information office of the suzhou municipal party committee of jiangsu province:

The positive role of network civilization in leading fashion and promoting righteousness has become increasingly prominent

Chen Xuerong, director of the Internet Information Office of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee of Jiangsu Province, believes that civilization demonstrates the inner temperament of the city and symbolizes the pattern and potential of urban development. As an integral part of social civilization in the new era, the positive role of network civilization in leading fashion and promoting righteousness has become increasingly prominent. As an online celebrity city with its own traffic, Suzhou gives full play to the advantages of the five consecutive titles of "national civilized city" and the "full house" of network civilization, moistening civilization with culture, cultivating civilization with morality, strengthening civilized exchanges and mutual learning, continuously promoting the construction of network civilization in the whole city, and leading the high-quality development of Suzhou with high-quality network civilization.

Yao Jianping, representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage projects and master of Chinese arts and crafts:

Let Excellent Culture Participate in the Construction of Chinese Discourse and Chinese Narrative System

Yao Jianping, a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage projects and a master of Chinese arts and crafts, said that the intangible cultural heritage culture represented by Suzhou embroidery is the mark of the long and splendid history and civilization of the Chinese nation, and the Internet and digital technology are the wisdom of the innovation and development of the new era of mankind. crystallization. We will continue to base ourselves on the roots of excellent culture, innovate communication methods, leverage the digital Internet, continue to expand the scale of communication, explore the artistic characteristics and aesthetic attributes of intangible cultural heritage, continue to strengthen the systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage, promote sustainable development, and strive to let excellent culture participate in the construction of Chinese discourse and Chinese narrative system, and participate in the exchange, mutual learning and coexistence of world civilizations.

xiamen university american professor pan weilian:

The greatest possibility of the Internet is to bridge the barriers

Pan Weilian, an American professor at Xiamen University, said that as soon as he moved to Xiamen University in 1988, he found that China was completely different from what Western media portrayed. "I write to my family and friends to help them see a more authentic China, and I also write articles for foreign magazines. I have written about 20 books, but I find that a website affects far more people than a single book." He said that the Internet has changed our lives in ways we have never imagined, but its greatest possibility lies in helping us bridge the barriers between people and countries.

China University of Petroleum Turkmenistan students in the United States:

Young students studying abroad should actively speak out and play a good role as a bridge and link.

Ruohe Man, a Turkmen student from China University of Petroleum, said that the Internet not only provides us with an excellent platform for us to understand and understand China, but also for us to tell the Chinese stories of our foreign students to countries around the world from our own point of view. it has expanded a broad channel for us to tell the story of Central Asia to our teachers and friends. Young people studying abroad should take active actions, make our voices heard on the Internet, establish a good image, spread positive energy, play a good role as a bridge, and contribute to the promotion of people-to-people bonds among countries.