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Professor Wenjun, Vice President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, delivered an opening speech
Professor Chen Xulong presided over the opening ceremony
In the theme discussion session, many well-known scholars gave in-depth elaborations from multiple dimensions around the theme of "Public Diplomacy Promotes Border Opening under the New Development Pattern".Professor Zhao Hongyan, Director of the Public Diplomacy and International Communication Research Center of the w88 casinoServed as host.
Professor Gao Fei, Vice President of China Foreign Affairs UniversityWith the title of "New Situations and New Challenges of Border Opening under a Century of Changes", it deeply analyzed the challenges and opportunities of border opening under the current international situation. Vice President Gao Fei deeply discussed the new challenges in Sino-US relations and the importance of border opening in the context of a century of changes. He believes that public diplomacy is crucial to telling China’s story well, and proposes that doing a good job in public diplomacy requires improving my country’s external communication and management capabilities. At the same time, he emphasized the role of public diplomacy in shaping the image of a major country and national mentality, and expressed firm confidence in China's future development.
Professor Jia Lieying, Dean of the w88 casino of International Relations at Beijing Language and Culture UniversityFrom the perspective of the future of the United Nations and the cultivation of talents in international organizations, the important role of public diplomacy in international organizations was discussed. He discussed the core position of the United Nations in global governance, reviewed its historical development, and emphasized the unique value of the United Nations as the largest platform for multilateral diplomacy in promoting my country's high-level opening up to the outside world. Dean Jia Lieying concluded that despite the existence of major power conflicts, global issues still need to be resolved through cooperation, and public diplomacy is an important way to promote such cooperation.
Professor Wang Mingjin, w88 casino of International Relations, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of "International Forum"pointed out that deepening reform and new opportunities for border public diplomacy provide new ideas for border opening. He emphasized that the important instructions of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on comprehensively deepening reforms and optimizing the regional opening-up pattern highlighted the key role of border areas in opening up to the outside world. Professor Wang Mingjin elaborated on the advantages of border areas in terms of geography, cultural exchanges, peripheral diplomacy, and local public diplomacy characteristics, and put forward suggestions for transforming these advantages into practice.
Professor Zhang Ying, Vice Dean of the w88 casino of International Relations at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Director of the Editorial Department of "Regional Country Journal"Using the identity and field transformation of Global South countries as the theme, it traces the evolution of the concept of the Global South from geographical concepts to economic and political influence, and analyzes how it enhances its voice in international affairs through public diplomacy and other forms. Professor Zhang Ying specifically pointed out that China, as an important member of the Global South, plays a key role in promoting South-South cooperation and peripheralism by performing public diplomacy functions.
Associate researcher at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies (Institute of African Studies), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Director of the Editorial Department of "West Asian and African" Zhan ShimingSpecially discussed the current situation, problems and countermeasures of my country's public diplomacy in Africa. He evaluated and proposed three characteristics and achievements of China's public diplomacy with Africa. He also pointed out the challenges faced by China's public diplomacy with Africa, such as identity differences, ideological risks and competition between China and the United States in Africa. In the future, public diplomacy to Africa should focus on introducing China's development achievements, promoting institutional and theoretical exchanges between China and Africa, and helping Africa explore a development path that suits itself.
Director Meng Xiangchen of the Editorial Department of Jilin University’s Northeast Asia ForumAnalyzes the public diplomacy practices of China, Japan and South Korea in Northeast Asia and the challenges they face. Although the public diplomacy of China, Japan and South Korea is effective, it is affected by historical issues, territorial disputes and US policy in East Asia, resulting in unsatisfactory public diplomacy effects. Director Meng believes that despite the existence of structural constraints, public diplomacy still has important value in enhancing understanding, promoting cooperation and standardizing crisis management, and is crucial to the development of relations between China, Japan and South Korea.
Researcher Wang Junsheng, Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social SciencesAnalyzes the changes in the United States and its Asia-Pacific allies' perceptions of China and its impact on China's international relations. He pointed out that the United States shapes China's image through strategic competition, clash of civilizations and economic security issues, while Asia-Pacific allies such as South Korea and Japan also have a sense of crisis and alienation in their views of China. Researcher Wang Junsheng emphasized that in the face of these challenges, China needs to strengthen public diplomacy, including incentives, encouragement of exchanges, use of think tank platforms, and theoretical support for international communication.
Professor Bai Yunzhen, w88 casino of International Relations, Beijing Language and Culture UniversityPropose cultural and sociological insights into the strategies and challenges of China’s public diplomacy in the new era. He emphasized the importance of telling China's story, pointed out the communication challenges brought by cultural differences between China and the West, and proposed three key elements of public diplomacy: representation, communication and symbolism, and discussed how to enhance the effectiveness of public diplomacy through mutual learning among civilizations and effective communication methods. At the same time, he mentioned that public diplomacy needs to cooperate with national diplomacy to correctly understand and spread China's values.
Zhang Gaoyuan, assistant researcher at the China Frontier Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social SciencesFocus on the "cross-border friendly villages" exchanges between China and neighboring villages, and explore how this micro-level international friendly exchanges can promote the construction of a community with a shared future for China's surrounding countries. She introduced in detail the procedures for establishing cross-border friendship villages, their main functions, and specific practical paths in security, economic, cultural and ecological protection, and looked forward to the potential role of these village exchanges in China's neighboring diplomacy.
Professor Zhao Hongyan, National Institute for Opening up and w88 casino of International Relations, w88 casinoBased on the National Institute of Opening-up’s annual project “Public Diplomacy Promotes Border Opening under the New Development Pattern”, I and graduate student Xu Fei shared the Yunnan case of public diplomacy promoting border opening, and proposed three frameworks and implementation paths for public diplomacy to promote border opening in border areas: short-term construction from the perspective of media diplomacy Framework, use media diplomacy to help distinctive ethnic content go out of the circle, and enhance the international communication effect of the opening up of border areas; build a mid-term framework from the perspective of urban diplomacy, expand the "border-citizen mutual market +" model, while building a city characteristic brand, and promote border city diplomacy; build a long-term framework from the perspective of cultural diplomacy, using relevant ethnic cultures as a link to promote people-to-people bonds.
Professor Zhao Hongyan hosted the seminar
Professor Dai Changzheng, Dean of the w88 casino of International Relations/National Security and Governance Research Institute of the w88 casinoProvide closing summary. Dean Dai Changzheng spoke highly of the academic results of this seminar and summed it up as "pleasant". He believed that the speeches of the participating experts not only had theoretical depth, but also had practical guiding significance, and provided valuable intellectual support for promoting the development of my country's border opening and public diplomacy. He discussed the role of public diplomacy in international relations, believing that public diplomacy is a practice and action that requires everyone's participation and contribution, and affirmed that the subject and content of public diplomacy should be "lively". President Dai Changzheng expressed congratulations on the successful holding of the conference and looked forward to more activities in the future to promote the development of public diplomacy and international communication.
Dean Dai Changzheng delivers closing speech
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