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The 2026 Beijing Culture Forum will be held in Beijing from Sept 22 to 23. With "Inheritance, Creativity and Mutual Learning" as its permanent theme, this year's forum takes "Cultural Heritage and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations" as its focus.
Reflecting on his first visit to Beijing in 2012, José M. Almodóvar noted that despite the large scale of Chinese cities, many urban spaces can still be experienced at a pedestrian scale.
"Heritage is like a vessel," Heba Aziz said in an interview after a 2026 Beijing Culture Forum session regarding conserving historic cities in urban development.
In Pingnan county, East China's Fujian province, local officials have sought to revive traditional villages by attracting artists, entrepreneurs and other newcomers. Meanwhile, in the Xizang autonomous region, villagers are being encouraged to renovate their own homes and help build public spaces.
A Buddhist temple with more than a millennium of history may seem firmly rooted in the past. But on the contemporary stage, it is finding new forms through theater, digital imagery and a younger generation's imagination.
