Flourishing cultural exchanges have been held in China and Hungary to promote mutual understanding between the two nations in recent years.
Ancient Shu civilization serves as platform for cross-cultural communication across the world.
The first Sichuan Culture and Tourism Development Convention, to be held on April 29 in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, is expected to inject new momentum into the integration of culture and tourism in Sichuan with the releases of a series of new policies and measures.
Staff members at the Presidential Communications Operations Office, or PCOO, started learning Mandarin at the Presidential Palace in Manila on April 12, a first for government employees in the Philippine capital.
Some 50 guests from Espelette, France were invited to the new village of Dengchigou to attend the opening ceremony of the local museum of giant panda discovery, an event that also marks the 150th anniversary of the scientific discovery of giant pandas.
The rich imagery and colors on the Buddhist murals and statues in Dunhuang have inspired Russian composer Viktor Vasilievich Pleshak. His creation, The Silk Road Suite, premiered at the Shanghai Symphony Hall on April 11.
The Asian Food Festival will be held in the mid-May. Logos and mascot of the festival in Hangzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou have been unveiled.
The tangible developing results of the Belt and Road Initiative and closer cultural ties will generate momentum in the fields of people-to-people exchanges and two-way investment between China and Turkey this year, government officials said.
Turkey's Anatolia is, from the beginning of human history, a crossroads for many civilizations, the most significant of which are the Hittites whose glorious capital Hattusha was the heart of a powerful empire 3,000 years ago.
Improved political and business ties supported by factors like cultural events and new business models will boost long-term people-to-people exchanges and tourist flow between China and Austria, experts said.
The Silk Road Community Building Initiative was launched at a thematic forum on people-to-people connectivity of the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing on Thursday.
A total of 30 thangka paintings from top Nepalese artists are on display in Beijing, as part of efforts to promote cultural exchanges between China and Nepal.