Cultural exchanges key to improving understanding

Cultural exchanges and mutual learning are key to improving understanding among people from different nations, especially at a time when the world is undergoing profound changes, said speakers from home and abroad at parallel panels during the 2023 Beijing Culture Forum on Friday.

Qu Yingpu, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, stressed the need to jointly build platforms for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, carry forward the Silk Road spirit and promote shared values for all mankind so as to allow the world to better understand Chinese culture and advance the progress of human civilization.

Stelios Virvidakis, president of the Steering Committee of the Center of Greek and Chinese Ancient Civilizations and a professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, said in a video speech that he hoped mutual learning and cooperation between Greece and China can be further enhanced and the study of each other's languages, culture and history better promoted.