On May 26th, the "Henan Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base" at the Xinxiang Museum was successfully unveiled. Li Yan, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Group of the Xinxiang Overseas Chinese Federation, Tuo Xinwei, Deputy Director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Wang Yafei, Vice Chairman of the Municipal Overseas Chinese Federation, Li Jing, and some representatives of the overseas Chinese community attended the unveiling ceremony. Niu Wanxin, Director of the Municipal Museum, presided over the unveiling ceremony.
Tuo Xinwei, Deputy Director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Foreign Affairs and Tourism, delivered a welcoming speech and warmly welcomed the leaders, guests, and friends from the overseas Chinese community who attended the unveiling ceremony
Li Yan, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Group of the Municipal Overseas Chinese Federation, delivered an important speech. On behalf of the Municipal Overseas Chinese Federation, she warmly congratulated the Xinxiang Museum on being approved as the "Henan Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base" and the opening ceremony. She also expressed sincere gratitude to leaders at all levels and people from all walks of life who have always cared about and supported the development of the Overseas Chinese Federation!
She pointed out that Henan and Xinxiang have a profound historical and cultural heritage. The "Henan Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base" is an important platform for the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation to integrate social resources, promote complementary advantages, and jointly carry out overseas cultural exchange activities. It is an important display window for promoting Chinese culture and promoting cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, and an important carrier for actively expanding and deepening the theme activity of "family affection for China". The approval of the Xinxiang Museum embodies the efforts, hard work, and expectations of all parties, and has significant practical and long-term significance. For Xinxiang, it is not only an honor, but also a rare opportunity, and also a glorious responsibility.
She hopes that the Xinxiang Museum will take the cultural brand of "Henan Province Overseas Chinese International Cultural Exchange Base" as the starting point, rely on the unique resource advantages of "Central Plains Culture", deeply explore the spiritual connotation of Xinxiang, polish the cultural business card of Xinxiang, organize and carry out rich and colorful cultural exchange activities, focus on building a good external publicity window, tell the story of Xinxiang, spread the voice of Henan, and promote the "going out" of Central Plains culture. Expanding the connection channels and platform carriers between Henan and overseas, deepening the connection and exchange between our hometown Henan and the world, empowering the construction of Zhengzhou Luoxin National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, creating a good external environment for Xinxiang, creating a highland for Henan to open up to the outside world, and comprehensively embarking on a new journey of socialist modernization, and welcoming the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with outstanding achievements.
Afterwards, everyone visited the exhibition hall in the museum and had discussions and exchanges. At the symposium, Chen Chen, General Manager of Xinxiang Rongjun Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. and Vice President of Changyuan Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, introduced the creative concept and development prospects of the "Hometown Henan" cultural series masks. In recent years, he has continuously created a series of customized cultural masks, including "Hometown Henan", "Intangible Cultural Heritage Women's Book", "Cross Strait Homesickness", and "Gentleman Culture". Through the media of "masks", he showcases traditional Chinese culture to the world and uses his practical actions as a bridge connecting China and the world.
Chen Chen introduces the creative concept and development prospects of the "Hometown Henan" cultural mask series