大足石刻走进博鳌亚洲论坛

大足石刻走进博鳌亚洲论坛

备受全球关注的博鳌亚洲论坛2015年年会于3月26日至29日举行。3月20日，由大足石刻文化创意投资有限公司向该论坛捐赠的《“一带一路”之歌》大型雕塑，正式亮相博鳌亚洲论坛酒店(北区)大门口。

《“一带一路”之歌》雕塑主材为紫铜，表面贴金，雕塑基座为整体花岗岩雕刻，总高3.9米，仅实心的花岗岩底座就重达10吨。由著名雕塑家、清华大学美术学院雕塑系赵萌、董书兵教授设计制作，基座刻石的书法题名由中国书协创会时期的会员、资深书法家马祝平先生书写。作品的立意和构思大气磅礴，象征“一带”的丝绸与象征“一路”的圆弧相交，寓意经纬天地、古今融合，造福八方。

大足石刻文化创意投资有限公司负责人向天荣说，捐赠《“一带一路”之歌》大型雕塑，体现了公司今后的战略布局，那就是要依托“一带一路”，将大足石刻文化、大足文化创意产业推向世界、推向更开放更智慧更特色的前沿高地。

Intercultural marriage is no longer something new. Statistics indicated that the number of intercultural marriages between Chongqing’s men and foreign women increased, while marriages between Chongqing’s women and foreign men decreased year on year.

Marrying a foreign wife or husband becomes nothing special in the eyes of most people nowadays. Nevertheless it’s still a piece of news. How about the registration of intercultural marriage in Chongqing? According to Chongqing Marriage & Adoption Registration Administration Center, the number of intercultural marriages arrived at 780 last year.

“There is an obvious change comparing to that ten years ago, the number of Chongqing’s girls marrying foreign men is lesser, whilst growing Chongqing’s men have foreign wives”, said an official in charge of the center.

Dating back to early 1990’s, Chongqing started to offer the registration service of intercultural marriage. Thousands of girls from Chongqing married foreign men every year then. The men were mainly from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, and even the May-December marriages weren’t unusual.

“The phenomenon gets less and less nowadays”, reiterated the leader. The intercultural marriages registered in recent two years were hardly seen the May-December type as the couples’ ages were quite close. Moreover, men from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan dwindled and from the EU and the USA increased. The couples’ education was evidently enhanced, and some of men even spoke Chinese mandarin.

Aside from the change, Chongqing’s men who came to the registration administration center have a common denominator i.e. proficient in English and no language barriers with their wives.

An insider of the sector disclosed, the company he worked for would hold a wedding ceremony for an intercultural marriage on a monthly basis, many of which were Chongqing’s boys marrying foreign girls. “In such a marriage, Chongqing’s boys usually studied abroad”.

According to Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission, 5,000-odd foreigners study, work, and live in Chongqing. As a result, opportunities of local men meeting foreign women increased.

The Auto & Motorbike and Parts & Accessories Chamber of Commerce, All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce officially granted “China’s Mini Car Parts Industry Base” to Qingping town along the Eastern Hechuan economic corridor of Chongqing on March 21, 2015. The project will give a strong push to the development and upgrading of Chongqing’s mini car industry.

The “China’s Mini Car Parts Industry Base” project was another major milestone of the comprehensive automobile industry at Hechuan after the district allured BAIC Yinxiang in 2010. Located close to an outlet at Qingping of the third ring road, the base covers an area of 1,900-odd mu including a floor area of around 2 million square meters with a total investment of 6.5 billion yuan.

It’s said, the project is expected to be finished building in five years and will turn out to be a complex of automobile industry and city featuring industry & research, commerce, logistics, finance, import & export, and headquarters service, the biggest highlight of which is about the comprehensive service platform of automobile parts for foreign trade and the financial service platform of IOT supply chain. It’s estimated the transaction volume on the platforms will top 15 billion yuan in the first year since it is launched. Its fruits of modern e-commerce will become a benchmark for import and export of mini car parts nationwide.

Bo’ao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015, drawing the world’s attention, was held between March 26 and 29, 2015. Dazu Rock Carvings Cultural & Creative Investment Co., Ltd donated a large sculpture entitled Song of the Belt and Road to the forum, which was officially unveiled at the gate (North), BFA Hotel.

The Song of the Belt and Road sculpture is made of copper inside and gold outside with 10-ton granite as its base, 3.9 meters tall in totality. Designed and sculptured by Professors Zhao Meng and Dong Shubing, Department of Sculpture, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, the calligraphy on the base was inscribed by Mr. Ma Zhuping, a founding member of the China Calligraphers Association and a prominent calligrapher. The masterpiece with ingenious creativity and exquisite composition symbolizes integration between the earth and sky as well as the past and present to benefit the universe as the silk denoting the Belt and the arc signifying the Road crosses.

Mr. Xiang Tianrong in charge of Dazu Rock Carvings Cultural & Creative Investment Co Ltd said, donating the sculpture mirrored the company’s strategic layout i.e. relying on the Belt and Road initiatives it will promote Dazu Rock Carvings and cultural and creative industry to the rest of the world and near the forefront of highland categorized by more opening-up, smartness, and more uniqueness.

More Chongqing’s Men Married Foreign Women

China’s Mini Car Parts Industry Base Took Root in Hechuan of Chongqing

Dazu Rock Carvings Entered into Bo’ao Forum for Asia

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