enriching the city with culture and benefiting the people with culture, beijing xicheng polishes its cultural “golden sign”
2024-09-27
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china news service, beijing, september 25 (reporter du yan) xicheng district is the functional core area of the capital, a key area for the protection of historical and cultural cities, and an important window to display the image of the national capital. currently, xicheng district in beijing is building a cultural industry layout with "giant port in the east, maliandao in the west, pan animation in the south, science and technology nest in the north, and alliance chain in the middle", striving to promote the construction of a strong cultural district to a new level.
this reporter learned this from the xicheng district press conference held on the 25th at a series of themed press conferences titled "welcoming the 75th anniversary of the founding of new china".
liu dongwei, deputy secretary of the xicheng district party committee and district mayor of beijing, said at the press conference that beijing’s more than 3,000 years of city construction and more than 800 years of capital history began in xicheng, which gives us a heavy responsibility to protect this ancient city and capital.
improving the city with culture and polishing the “golden sign” of history and culture
in july this year, beijing’s central axis was successfully applied for world heritage status, and the “spine of the ancient capital” shines with new light in the new era, embodying xicheng’s unremitting efforts. after three stages: start (2012-2016), acceleration (2017-2021), and sprint (2022-2024), xicheng district has completed the fifth facade around the bell and drum tower, the street facades inside and outside di'anmen, and among the 21 leading tasks, including the south view gallery of the zhengyangmen archery tower, the most critical project of vacating the qingcheng palace was completed one month ahead of schedule, writing a good story about the success of qingcheng palace in the central axis’ application for world heritage.
xicheng district has launched the largest directly-managed public housing relocation project since the founding of the people's republic of china in 2016, with an investment of 4.5 billion yuan, and has completed the relocation of 37 cultural relics; it has deepened and expanded the "xicheng model" for the revitalization and utilization of cultural relics, with two batches of 15 sites. the cultural relics building was signed. as the only existing lane-style shikumen building in beijing, tai'anli also pioneered a new credit financing model for the revitalization of cultural relics in the country.
xicheng district has carefully built a highland for public cultural services. 33 museums, 158 physical bookstores, and 57 "reading bays" are spread throughout xicheng, nourishing life, and the cultural and bookish flavor of the old city is getting stronger. vigorously promote the integrated development of cultural undertakings and industries, the jurisdiction has gathered six cultural gold business cards of "beijing animation week", "northern point of the canal", "birthplace of peking opera", "birthplace of crosstalk", "musical festival" and "baoguo temple old book market" to form the "white tower" there are three major cultural reception halls: "night talk", "xuannan cultural museum" and "fayuan temple centenary lilac poetry society". currently, we are also building a cultural industry layout with "port of giants in the east, maliandao in the west, pan-animation in the south, science and technology nest in the north, and alliance chain in the middle", and strive to promote the construction of a strong cultural district to a new level.
urban renewal reveals the new temperament of the old city pattern
xicheng district insists on reducing volume, weight, and burden, and advances in an orderly manner. in the past ten years, 1.662 million square meters of space have been cleared and vacated, and the permanent population has dropped from 1.233 million to the current 1.098 million. it maintains its efforts to demolish more than 100,000 square meters of illegal construction every year. adhering to the systematic implementation of urban renewal, the first historical district protection and renewal project - gulou west street was completed in 2020. since then, landmark projects such as ping'an street, diwai street, and dene street have successively appeared, and the "four horizontal and two vertical" spatial patterns of the old city have become more distinct.
since last year, we have vigorously promoted the environmental renovation and upgrading of this important 4.5-kilometer longitudinal line from xidan to jishuitan bridge. at the beginning of the year, the 1-kilometer lingjing hutong-xisi intersection test section was unveiled with all elements. this year, the xisi road intersection-ping'an street section will also be unveiled. about 2,000 square meters of illegal construction along the line will be demolished, more than 8,000 square meters of pavilions and pavilions will be demolished, nearly 6,000 square meters of landscape green space will be added, and 224 facade improvements will be made to the public. presenting a boutique street with both ancient charm and modern fashion.
deepen brand development and enhance cultural soft power and influence
zhang xiaojia, member of the standing committee of the xicheng district party committee and minister of the publicity department of beijing, said at the press conference that xicheng district continues to polish the "beijing animation week", "northern point of the canal", "birthplace of peking opera", "birthplace of crosstalk", "musical festival" and "the ancient baoguo temple". book market" has six cultural gold business cards, and has created three major cultural reception rooms with high quality: "baita night talk", "xuannan cultural museum" and fayuan temple's "centennial lilac poetry society".
xicheng district comprehensively strengthens the construction of "performing city", "scholarly xicheng" and "museum city". within the jurisdiction, there are 45 commercial performance venues represented by the national center for the performing arts and tianqiao art center, and 77 artistic performance groups represented by the national peking opera company and the national ballet of china.
in the first half of this year, xicheng district held more than 5,700 commercial performances, and more cultural elements have been deeply integrated into urban life. through in-depth exploration of red culture, scholar culture and other characteristic cultures, a number of characteristic high-quality plays such as the immersive guided drama "mr. shouchang" and "the scholars of xuannan" have been created.
to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china, xicheng district launched an original stage play "mongolian and tibetan school". this play is another masterpiece of xicheng district inheriting its historical mission and continuing its red gene.
this year, we also held the fayuan temple centenary lilac poetry festival, collaborated with cities along the grand canal to carry out a series of cultural activities at the "end of the river" world heritage site of china's grand canal, and regularly held baoguo temple's "old books, new knowledge·reading to serve the country" old and used book fairs. a series of activities to continuously enhance the influence of regional culture and tell the cultural story of xicheng.
"culture +" concept activates new development momentum
zhang xiaojia said that xicheng district has focused on building five major resource connections, ecological services, and value incubation communities for the development of xicheng's cultural industry, with "giant port in the east, malian road in the west, pan-animation in the south, science and technology nest in the north, and alliance chain in the middle."
xicheng district has 12 municipal-level cultural industry parks. in the overall advancement process, the china animation society has moved to xicheng, and the cctv national e-sports development research institute has settled in xicheng.
in the next step, xicheng district will further build a new ecology for e-sports development and promote the development of the pan-animation industry. in line with the general trend of digital development, digital cultural products such as the "digital opera beijing rhythm" peking opera culture digital asset library were launched. build a "xicheng consumption" cultural platform, actively transform the abundant cultural resources in the region into design brands, cultural and creative products, and specialty catering with xicheng characteristics, innovate new consumption formats such as "cloud shopping", promote the construction of digital business districts, and expand new consumption of digital culture.
vigorously promote the construction of national cultural centers
the reporter learned that in the future, xicheng district will continue to make efforts in building a strong cultural district: it will protect, utilize and inherit the world cultural heritage of beijing’s central axis with a “heart of cherishing and respecting”, and better explore cultural relics and the multiple values of cultural heritage; use the spirit of ingenuity to further creatively transform and innovatively develop cultural ip resources, display the cultural charm of xicheng in multiple dimensions, multiple perspectives, and multiple levels; run the peking opera cultural season well and make the "birthplace of peking opera" in the new era renew vitality; hold the 2024 beijing animation week well, promote the organic integration of animation industry resources and animation-empowered urban development; promote the creation and transformation of literary and artistic masterpieces, and launch more outstanding works that the masses love to see. at the same time, we will speed up the construction of new business formats and new scenes for cultural, science, business, tourism and sports to promote new cultural experiences and new consumption. at the same time, we will promote the tianqiao performing arts district, beijing square, liulichang district, etc. to cultivate new scenes of night economy and cultural consumption.
xicheng district will also persist in benefiting the people with culture and continuously optimize public cultural services. xicheng district will launch more urban public cultural spaces with elegant and comfortable environments, novel and unique facilities, and distinctive cultural characteristics. we will continue to promote the extension of high-quality public cultural services to the grassroots, continue to organize a series of cultural activities such as the peking opera "gathering of heroes", "guild hall show", lao she theater festival, etc., and deliver the "public cultural feast" to the people. (over)
