Good news! Weifang was elected as the "Cultural City of East Asia " in 2024 with the highest scores. Another world-class cultural name card added to Weifang except being UNESCO Creative City!
Recently, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism officially announced that Weifang was elected as the 2024 "Cultural City of East Asian " , which is the 14th city in China and the third city in Shandong province to win this award. This morning, Weifang City People's Government held a press conference and Weifang City deputy-Mayor Di Bo announced the good news.
After being the "Creative City of Craft and Folk Art" last year, Weifang has gained the second world-class cultural name card -- "Cultural City of East Asia ".
In 2023, during the 14th China-Japan-ROK Culture Ministers' Meeting, awards will be given to newly elected cities of China, Japan and the ROK, including Weifang.
The Culture City of East Asia is a medium - and long-term strategic project jointly implemented by China, Japan and the ROK, aiming to enhance mutual understanding and respect among cultures through exchanges and cooperation in culture, art and tourism.
This is a important measure that we implement of the Asian civilizations dialogue conference "deepen mutual communication, to build Asia destiny community", an important platform on deepen pragmatic cooperation in the culture field of China, Japan and South Korea, an vital role for the prosperity of urban culture, expanding urban open as a gold signboard
Profound cultural accumulation
Weifang was selected with the highest scores
Due to locate the joint of land and ocean, Weifang inherits Qilu civilization, a 8,000 years culture that includes Marine civilization and agricultural civilization. Qi culture and Lu culture are integrated in this vast and thick land. Weifang is the UNESCO Creative city of crafts and folk art, as well as famous for its Chinese painting、gemstone, and the national cultural and ecological protection zone. Depends on its long and rich cultural resources, Weifang deserves the title of "cultural city of East Asia".
The final trial of the 2024 Culture City of East Asia organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism was held in Beijing on Aug 31. Ten cities -- Zhenjiang, Huzhou, Jingdezhen, Weifang, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Kashgar, Dalian and Foshan -- participated in the final trial defense.
On September 8, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism officially announced that Weifang was elected as the Culture City of East Asia in 2024, which is the 14th city in China and the third city in Shandong province to be rewarded.
Promote Chinese Culture influence
The Culture City of East Asia is an important international and regional cultural cooperation brand created by the trilateral Summit meeting. So far, more than 30 cities have received this honor.
As one of " Culture Cities of East Asia", Weifang is entitled to "the six priority" policies as below, priority to participate in the national project of foreign cultural communication; Priority to participate in key projects of national inbound tourism market development and overseas tourism promotion; priority to participate in the implementation of related projects of "Asia Tourism Promotion Plan" and "Asia Cultural Exchange Action Plan"; Priority to participate in the implementation of key projects of the Asian Cultural Tourism Year; Priority to participate in international exchanges with European Culture Cities, ASEAN Culture Cities, etc. Priority to participate in international creation activities in Asia.
This is significant to display Weifang's profound historical, distinct and rich cultural heritage, as a new advantages to strengthen international cultural exchanges and cooperation.
