Beijing volunteer group’s performance

Volunteer groups from Beijing and Zhejiang will arrive in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Aug 30, and volunteer groups from Chongqing and Fujian will arrive in Tibet on Aug 17 to carry out cultural services.

The Beijing volunteer group will go to Urumqi City and the Hotan region, and launch an eight-day Grand Stage, a 30-day Grand Lecture and a 15-day Grand Exhibit with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Fifty volunteers from Beijing will put on six performances in different area of Xinjiang. The Grand Lecture will teach Xinjiang people about stage design, and the installation, use and maintenance of light and audio equipment. The Grand Exhibit has the theme “Here is Beijing,” aimed at showing Beijing’s long history and its modern development and changes through photographs. The Zhejiang volunteer group will carry out a series of lectures that will last for one week at the Xinjiang Autonomous Region library, and the municipal library of Urumqi City, in Aqsu region and the 1st agricultural division. Literature and art instruction will be combined in those lectures. The Zhejiang volunteer group will also launch a series of photo exhibits with Zhejiang regional characters, which will last for 15 days.

Volunteer groups from Chongqing and Fujian will arrive in Lhasa, Tibet, on Aug 17. After putting on an art performance in Lhasa, the volunteer groups will go to Shan’nan Prefecture and Nyingchi County, and they will carry out a 10-day activity. On Oct 10, the Tibetan Autonomous Region will send 68 grass-roots level culture workers to attend a training session organized in Chongqing and Fujian.

This national cultural volunteer activity can promote cultural exchanges between border areas and the interior. According to border people’s cultural requests, interior provinces recruit cultural volunteers and organize them to go to border areas to carry out a series of activities.

The Ministry of Culture will pay more attention to the Spring Rain Projects during the 12th Five-year Plan. It will further promote the construction of public cultural infrastructure, strengthen the launch of cultural activities and cultivate more talent in the arts.

By Chen Yanqiu

Editor: Liu Fang