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In August, 2018, the founder of Window of Philadelphia, Sino-American Business & Travel Association, held the "Across Golden Bridge" Sino-US Cultural Heritage and Urban Development Forum at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in eastern Unite


  • 2022-12-13 18:01:57

In August, 2018, the founder of Window of Philadelphia, Sino-American Business & Travel Association, held the "Across Golden Bridge" Sino-US Cultural Heritage and Urban Development Forum at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in eastern United States, which was co-sponsored by the Chinese Consulate General in New York, the Philadelphia City Government and the China Culture Media Group, and hosted by the China Culture Media Group's Foreign Culture Communication Center and the Sino-American Business & Travel Association. Zhao Yumin, representing the Consulate General of the Chinese Consulate General in New York, James Kenney, Mayor of Philadelphia, Song Heyi, Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, editor-in-chief of China Culture Media Group and editor-in-chief of China Culture Newspaper, attended the opening ceremony of the forum and delivered speeches. Li Liyan, Cultural Counsellor of the Chinese Consulate General in New York, Juvencio Gonzalez, Special Assistant to the Vice Governor of Pennsylvania, Mark Squilla, Congressman of Philadelphia, Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television, Zhang Xiaolan, Assistant to Foreign Affairs, Chairman of China Culture and Media Group, and Mr. Zhang Wenlong, President of the Sino-American Business & Travel Association attended the forum. Nearly 200 experts and guests from all walks of life in the field of cultural heritage in China and the United States attended the forum alongside them.


Authoritative experts from the cultural heritage community and urban “designers” from China and the United States held a high-end ideological discussion on cultural heritage protection and urban development. Including Guo Zhan, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics and President of the World Heritage Research Association, Zhang Zhiping, an ancient architecture expert of the State Administration of Cultural Relics and chief engineer of the Potala Palace Maintenance Project in Tibet - Zhang Guanghan, deputy chief planner of the China Institute of Urban Planning and Design, Cao Zhijun, Director of the Nanjing Museum, He Yan, director of the Beijing Tsinghua Institute of Heritage Digitization and Beijing Qingcheng Ruixian Institute of Digital Science and Technology, Holly Rushmeier, professor of Computer Science at Yale University, Donovan Rypkema, President of International Heritage Strategy Corporation, Alan Greenberg, Professor at Drexel University, and Larry Dubinski, Director of the Franklin Science Museum in Philadelphia.

The event is reported on the official website of the Chinese Consulate General in New York and mainstream official media in China and the United States such as Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, People's Daily, NBC, BBC, etc.


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From third left to right, executive chairman of BBS Ms. Zhang Xiaolan; the president of Sino-American Business & Travel Association Mr. Zhang Wenlong; Cultural Counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in New York Mr. Li Liyan;  Acting Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in New York Mr. Zhao Yumin; Philadelphia Mayor Mr. James Kenney; Editor-in-chief of China Culture and Media Group Mr. Song Heyi; Professor Wilson; World Heritage expert Mr.  Guo Zhan; Deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Tianjin Municipal Government Mr. Chen Weiming.