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on the morning of september 8, the "new era literature and art: the responsibility and imagination of periodicals - the second beijing critics forum" was held at october academy of literature. this forum is the first event after the launch of beijing literature and art review magazine. it aims to review the experience and look forward to the future of new era literature and art, and discuss how review periodicals can empower new era literature and art.

this forum is one of the key activities of the 9th beijing october literature month, hosted by the publicity department of the beijing municipal party committee, and organized by beijing publishing group's beijing literary review magazine and china literary review renmin university base. famous experts and scholars in the literary and art circles, including li jingze, sun yu, meng fanhua, chen jianlan, zhang qinghua, zhang yanling, he ping, zhang li, and ye liwen, participated in the forum. ji ya, editor-in-chief of beijing literary review and executive editor of october, and yang qingxiang, vice dean of the school of literature at renmin university of china, jointly hosted the forum.

wu wenxue, deputy secretary of the party committee and general manager of beijing publishing group, said that beijing publishing group founded beijing literature and art review to build a theoretical discourse system of literary criticism with chinese characteristics and to convey the "voice of beijing" and "voice of china" in the field of world literary theory and criticism. in the future, with the support of experts, beijing literature and art review is confident and certain to make beijing literature and art review a first-class literary criticism journal with correct value orientation, high academic content and great industry influence.

li jingze, member of the party leadership group and vice chairman of the chinese writers association, highly praised the inaugural issue of beijing literature and art review, and believed that the reasons for the emergence, existence and future development of this magazine could be felt from the first issue. he believed that the original intention of beijing literature and art review was to make literary criticism and literary criticism a cultural force that provides vitality and initiative in the development of literature and art in the new era. he hoped that this publication would not only focus on the present and the future, but also have a broad cultural and literary vision, and on this basis observe new phenomena and raise new questions.

sun yu, professor at renmin university of china and director of the renmin university base of chinese literary criticism, believes that the emergence of beijing literary review has provided a larger platform for "literary criticism", allowing everyone to discuss the development trends of literature and art in the new era and the development of literary criticism journals. these brilliant ideas will promote the development of literary criticism and literary creation.

meng fanhua, distinguished professor at shenyang normal university and supervisor of the chinese contemporary literature research association, said that publications are an important carrier for shaping the literary and artistic image and ecology of the times. "beijing literature and art review" has macro-level articles that can overlook national literary and artistic phenomena, and what is more valuable is the problem awareness that flashes in them.

zhang yanling, president of the guangxi association of literary critics and special editor of beijing literary review, said that beijing literary review is a magazine with cutting-edge, guiding and contemporary features. whether it is the design of columns such as the special features in the inaugural issue, amateur writing, and letters from beijing, or the inclusiveness and openness reflected in the topic selection process, or even the binding design, all reflect the magazine's solid and unique editorial concept.

experts and scholars at the meeting put forward many suggestions for the future development of beijing literature review. chen jianlan, dean of the school of literature at renmin university of china, proposed six words: "active", to actively respond to current hot topics; "prudent", to be wary of bubbles while keeping up with the trend; "deep thinking", to have insight into the essence hidden behind hot issues. zhang li, vice dean and professor of the school of literature at beijing normal university, believes that the emergence of beijing literature review will bring new atmosphere, style and new problem awareness to contemporary chinese literature. she is very much looking forward to the publication to put forward new thinking from the theoretical and academic level. ye liwen, professor of the school of literature at wuhan university, said that if critical articles want to lower the threshold and be as easy to read as works, this will test the skills of critics. he hopes that beijing literature review does not have to be a stereotyped academic journal, and "good-looking" should be its feature.

source: beijing daily client

reporter: lu yanxia