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Build A Cultural Strategic Think Tank For The "Belt And Road" As Soon As Possible

Build A Cultural Strategic Think Tank For The "Belt And Road" As Soon As Possible

Build A Cultural Strategic Think Tank For The "Belt And Road" As Soon As Possible

The "Belt and Road" strategy is the most core global development strategy that China has constructed in the new century in the face of new world development trends and patterns. Although the "Belt and Road" is a historical concept, it uses culture to connect history, reality and the future together

The "Belt and Road" strategy is the most core global development strategy that China has constructed in the new century in the face of new world development trends and patterns. Although the "Belt and Road" is a historical concept, it uses culture to connect history, reality and the future, becoming a strategic structure for China's globalization. Therefore, culture and its problems can be said to be one of the most basic and strategic core strategies in the "Belt and Road" strategy process. Compared with the economic strategy, our systematic research is still insufficient and insufficient compared to the economic strategy. It is urgent to build a new type of professional think tank - the "Belt and Road" cultural strategic think tank to cope with the current lack of cognition, countermeasures and policies.

1. Face the strategic misunderstandings of cultural and industrial development in the "Belt and Road" pattern

Specifically, there are the following misunderstandings about cultural strategies in the "Belt and Road" pattern:

1. Emphasize the game between geopolitical and economic cooperation in the strategic pattern of the "Belt and Road" and ignore the basic role of culture and its industries in history and integration. At present, we see that cooperative countries through bilateral or multilateral mechanisms, especially our neighboring countries, often occur repeatedly during the cooperation process. In addition to striving for greater interests, this repetition does not agree with the different understandings of the direction and intention of the strategy, which is also an important reason.

2. The "Belt and Road" is not just a concept of space, it is also a concept of cultural influence based on the influence of historical and cultural concepts. The "Belt and Road" involves a wide range of areas in dozens of countries such as Central Asia and South Asia. The political forces and political structure are complex. If we blindly emphasize political and economic means, it is easy to form a hard collision. Therefore, through cultural influence, we should downplay the geopolitical effect, gradually form consensus and mutual trust, and reach understanding, and make it easier to construct China's all-round opening-up pattern of the "Belt and Road" for the "Belt and Road".

3. In the strategic structure of the "Belt and Road", the economic cooperation relationship in the process of interconnected passage is overemphasized, especially the cooperation in infrastructure construction, such as railways, highways, ports, energy, communications and other projects, as strategic breakthroughs and tools, while ignoring the cultural wisdom, the value discovery of cultural resources, and the construction of cultural platforms in the process of interconnected passage of the "Belt and Road" needs to further enhance the strategic identity of the "Belt and Road" from a cultural perspective.

4. In the process of planning and implementation of the "Belt and Road" strategy, the strategic post-strategic problems of culture and its industries are more prominent. Any strategy must have corresponding breakthroughs and tools. It is undoubtedly correct to give full play to our capital advantages and infrastructure construction advantages, but the trend of strategic deployment of post-cultural and industrial development should be worthy of vigilance.

5. In the strategic pattern of the "Belt and Road" policy, capital promotes the development of culture and its industries to pay too much attention to the main line of the role of the capital market, while ignoring the main line and core role of the assetization and financialization of different cultural resources. Strong capital forces and means can easily cause the impression that culture is infringed on countries and regions with bilateral or multilateral cooperation mechanisms, worry about cultural security and cultural interests, undermine or hinder the consensus that has been formed, and there are recurrences in cooperation.

2. Attach importance to the study of the orientation and dimensions of cultural strategies in the "Belt and Road" pattern

Although there are many different voices in the strategic discussion on the pattern culture and industrial development of the "Belt and Road" pattern, in the process of systematic research and analysis, we believe that its strategic orientation can basically be summarized as: First, strategy first; second, building a platform mechanism; third, exerting the diversified effect. The strategic dimensions of culture and its industries in the "Belt and Road" pattern are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. Strategic consensus dimension. First, the cultural industry strategy is an important part of the "Belt and Road" strategy and a strategy that urgently needs to be set in the planning process; second, culture and its industries are important breakthroughs and tools in the strategic pattern of the "Belt and Road", and their strategic significance is no less than the strategic position and role of infrastructure in connectivity; third, culture and its industries have expanded the connotation and perspective of the "Belt and Road" strategy, and are an important foundation of the "Belt and Road" strategy.

2. Strategic resource dimension. Cultural resources are extremely valuable strategic resources in the strategic development of the "Belt and Road". Only by systematically exploring and integrating diverse and rich cultural resources and enabling them to flow and be full of vitality can we effectively stimulate the enthusiasm of different cultural backgrounds to participate in the cultural industry development strategy and truly achieve the integration and common development of cultural resources.

3. Strategic platform dimension. A strategic platform mainly refers to the platform mechanism for the development of cultural industries in the strategic pattern of the "Belt and Road". The platforming mechanism mainly includes five aspects: one is the platforming mechanism for cultural exchange; the second is the platforming mechanism for the flow of cultural resources, including the platforming mechanism for the assetization and financialization of cultural resources; the third is the platforming mechanism for the aggregation of various strategic forces; the fourth is the bilateral, multilateral or regional platform development mechanism formed based on different cultural backgrounds and interest demands; the fifth is the integration of new technologies, especially the integration of Internet, communication and information management technologies, as well as the rapid development of big data technology, cloud service platforms and the Internet of Things, to provide reliable guarantees for the effectiveness of the platform-based strategic dimension.

4. Strategic capital dimension. The formation of strategic capital mainly relies on the capital market, and it is very important to continuously develop a unified cultural industry capital market under the "Belt and Road" structure. To this end, we should focus on: First, give full play to the attention and investment of the Silk Road Fund and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank mechanism on the development of the cultural industry; Second, we can set up special cultural industry development funds; Third, we should focus on the development of industrial investment funds and equity investment funds at different levels under the "Belt and Road" pattern.

5. The integration dimension of strategic industrial chain. Under the framework of the "Belt and Road", integrating and allocating industrial resources globally, rationally arrange industrial layout and industrial chain layout in accordance with the internal laws of industrial division of labor and integration, and constantly occupy the initiative in the integration of high-end and strategic industrial chains is the key to effectively utilize the strategic industrial chain integration strategy, integrating industrial resources, extending the industrial chain, and expanding the scale of the industry.

6. Strategic effect dimension. The strength and longevity of cultural resources and cultural traditions, as well as the continuous improvement of cultural influence, are the basic prerequisites for us to implement the cultural industry strategy and produce strategic effects in the "Belt and Road" pattern. Therefore, the strategic effect mainly includes the following major aspects: one is strategic identification based on consensus; two is the establishment of an international image based on extensive cooperation and exchanges and the emergence of international influence; three is the right to speak and influence based on cultural competitiveness; four is the cultural confidence and courage to respect historical civilization and actively respond to the challenges of globalization through the co-construction and sharing mechanism.

3. The foundation and suggestions for the construction of the "Belt and Road" cultural strategic think tank

At present, the domestic theoretical community and industry have gradually established corresponding theoretical frontier research and practical frontier explorations in the construction of a new type of professional think tank - the "Belt and Road" cultural strategic think tank, and have achieved many world-renowned results. For example, the China Cultural Industry Think Tank Research Center, the China Art Industry Research Institute of Shanghai University, the Weifang Bank Art Finance Research Center and the Art Finance Postdoctoral Research Workstation have been established in universities; the industry's research and discussion activities around the "Belt and Road" include the China Cultural Industry Think Tank Annual Conference, the China Art Finance Annual Conference, and the China Cultural Finance Summit Forum, which have attracted much attention. These factors can be said to have created conditions and prerequisites for the development of our cultural strategic think tanks in the "Belt and Road".

We suggest that the "Belt and Road" cultural strategic think tank should be built as soon as possible, give full play to the position and role of the "Belt and Road" cultural strategic think tank in the "Belt and Road" strategic pattern, further promote the effect of the development of Chinese culture and its industries, and provide high-level, high-level, and operational ideological and intelligent support for Chinese culture to go global and achieve great development and prosperity of Chinese culture.

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