In the golden autumn, the 2023 Beijing Cultural Forum grandly opened. Centered on the permanent theme of "Inheritance - Innovation - Mutual Appreciation" and the annual theme of "Inheriting Excellent Culture and Promoting Exchanges and Cooperation", guests from home and abroad gathered together to appreciate the beauty of Chinese culture.

The prosperity of culture is the prosperity of the nation, and the strength of culture is the strength of the nation. It has always been a good tradition for Beijing to hold various cultural brand activities, which is also a vivid manifestation of the participation of the general public in cultural activities. 2023 Beijing Cultural Forum will be upgraded to a national and international forum, which will become an important platform to support the construction of the "four centers" of the capital city, and also add an important window for China to carry out cultural exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations in the world. As a carrier to comprehensively summarize the major achievements and experiences of cultural construction in the new era, the Forum will provide a cultural platform for in-depth dialogue and enlightenment of ideas, and offer a cultural festival for the masses to nourish their souls and enjoy peace and happiness. Join in this grand cultural event, in the fragrance of books, in the great theater, in the cultural and artistic performances, everyone will enjoy a rich and diversified spiritual feast, and appreciate the blossoming of Chinese culture.

The soul of a nation is taught and forged with culture. Culture is nurtured in social development, while nourishing society and shaping the soul. Entering the new stage of development, people's desire for a better life is becoming stronger and stronger, and they are paying more attention to spiritual and cultural life, and their cultural demand for high quality and personalization is more obvious. At the same time, with the improvement of life quality and the development of communication technology, the enthusiasm of the whole society for cultural innovation and creation is growing. Holding the Beijing Cultural Forum is an opportunity to gather high-quality cultural resources, launch high-quality cultural activities for the benefit of the people, and create cultural festivals favored by the masses; to facilitate project docking, signing and cooperation, and to set up more cultural innovation platforms, and to continuously stimulate the power of cultural innovation and creativity, which will surely further enrich the cultural life of the masses, and write a more fulfilling answer to the people's livelihood.

Culture leads the way of the times. As a national cultural center, Beijing is rich in cultural resources of all kinds, and the cultural practices of its people are varied. Under the guarantee of a three-dimensional and multi-dimensional policy system, a number of outstanding cultural achievements have emerged, representing the national image and the standard of the capital. These achievements have enriched the capital's cultural supply and carried the city's cultural soft power and influence. In recent years, Beijing's public cultural service system has become increasingly perfect, the level of public cultural services has been raised, mass cultural activities have flourished, the effect of cultural benefits for the people has continued to expand, and the public's sense of cultural gaining and happiness has been rising.

The strong atmosphere of all people's participation in service and cultural activities not only promotes the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also helps to deepen civilization exchanges and mutual understanding, tells the story of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and promotes the Chinese culture to the world in a better way.

Beijing is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 3,000 years as a city and 870 years as a capital, and it is the world's first and only "Double Olympic City". Standing at a new historical starting point, how to continue the millennial cultural lineage, promote Chinese civilization, and provide strong value guidance, cultural cohesion, and spiritual impetus for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation by means of Chinese-style modernization is a new cultural issue and a new cultural mission for us. Beijing, as a place where Chinese culture is concentrated, must take the lead, set an example, enhance the functions of the national cultural center, play a leading role in demonstrating the deep-rooted culture, become a window to the outside world in the exchanges and mutual understanding of civilizations, continuously cultivate and create advanced socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and strive to carry on the historical lineage of literature and write contemporary Chinese chapters in the new journey of promoting the prosperity and development of culture and serving the construction of a strong cultural country.

The curtain has opened. Let us participate in this cultural feast, listen to the reverberations of Chinese culture, touch the pulse of Chinese civilization, feel the weather of the times, and establish cultural confidence on the way forward. By not forgetting the past, absorbing the past and facing the future, our culture will be passed on forever and our creations will be renewed every day. This is the best inheritance of history and the greatest salute to human civilization.