A business, culture and tourism event for introducing the hometown of Confucius, an ancient philosopher and a great thinker from China, has been launched at the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the afternoon of 10th November, 2018.
Organized by the London Confucius Institute for Business London （CIBL）, an Institute co-founded by Tsinghua University , London School of Economics 12 years ago, this event is the first promotion event combing culture, tourism, and business supported by Hanban, China. It attracted huge interests around UK and 150 guests attended this event, they are from Foreign and Commonwealth Office of United Kingdome, UK Trade and Investment, National Health Service, HSBC, Shangri-La Group, University of Cambridge and University of Africa and Asia and other organizations.
Minister-counselor of Cultural affairs from Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom Mr.Xiang Xiaowei delivered an opening speech for the event. He pointed out that culture is the soul of a country and a nation，culture is the spiritual strength facilitating progress of human being and the society. Amity between people holds the key to sound relations between states , tourism is an important channel for culture communications, it’s a way of enhancing mutual learning and understanding between countries.
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