On September 23, the 2025 Beijing Culture Forum was held in Beijing. Li Shulei, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee attended and delivered the keynote speech. Yin Li, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee attended and addressed at the forum. This forum is jointly hosted by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Government, focusing on the theme "Integrated Development of Culture and Technology".
In the evening of September 23, the Special Forum: Major Achievements Release was held. This year’s Beijing Culture Forum innovatively launched this dedicated session for releasing major achievements, presenting key cultural outcomes including From Initiative to Practice: 2024 China-Foreign Cultural Exchange Report and the "Ten Major Events in Building the National Cultural Centre in 2024". The released achievements demonstrate substantial research significance, high industry value, and remarkable ripple effects: projects such as the Intelligent Service Platform for Chinese Ancient Texts and the "Digital Atlas of Ancient Chinese Cities" project stand out for their innovation. By employing digital and intelligent technologies, they revolutionize the methods of preserving, researching, and disseminating historical and cultural heritage, forming exemplary practices that drive cultural inheritance and innovative development.
Chen Yunsong, Vice Chair of the 优米直装下载app CPC Council and Director of NJU's Chinese Civilization Digital Innovation Laboratory unveiled the outcomes of the "Digital Atlas of Ancient Chinese Cities" project. This project is the only representative achievement from higher education institutions, alongside six other specialized presentations from China Media Group, Xinhua News Agency, Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, National Radio and Television Administration, National Library of China, and China Association for Science and Technology.
(Photographer: Bai Jikai, Beijing Daily)
At the Special Forum, Chen Yunsong stated that the preservation and transmission of ancient Chinese cities represent an era-defining mission to safeguard historical and cultural heritage, serve as a vital conduit for revitalizing China's outstanding traditional culture, and constitute a shared responsibility for advancing the continuity and development of human civilization. Leveraging NJU's strengths in interdisciplinary research and the development of new liberal arts disciplines, the team is fully committed to exploring contemporary pathways for empowering cultural heritage conservation through digital intelligence. This endeavor aims to establish a data foundation, refine operational standards, and deliver solutions for the protection of ancient cities across China and the wider world.
The "Digital Atlas of Ancient Chinese Cities" project offers an efficient "Chinese model" for the global challenge of ancient city preservation. It empowers the protection of ancient cities through interdisciplinary digital intelligent methods, enabling the resolution of difficult problems by algorithmically integrating satellite images, map data, and massive literary materials, which has been applied to the Fourth National Cultural Heritage Survey. This project is led by NJU's Chinese Civilization Digital Innovation Laboratory, which focuses on "civilization research" as its main axis, conducting studies on distant reading of civilization, civilization origins, civilization inheritance, civilization integration, and civilization mutual learning. Among these, the civilization inheritance project focuses on major initiatives such as the digital atlas integration for ancient Chinese city protection, atlas of ancient Chinese cities in frontier regions, and atlas of Chinese mosques demonstrating Islamic-Confucian integration. The project conducts digital restoration and protection zone delineation for nearly 3,000 ancient cities, innovating methods and exploring standards for the preservation of global human historical settlement heritage, implementing the Global Civilization Initiative through digital innovation.
The 2025 Beijing Culture Forum comprises a main forum, six parallel sessions, over twenty specialized salons, and numerous exciting supporting events. Approximately 800 distinguished guests from China and abroad gathered in Beijing, including heads of central and local publicity and cultural departments, renowned domestic and international experts and scholars, representatives from world-renowned cultural institutions, leading cultural enterprises, cultural luminaries, and industry pioneers.
