Thematic cultural week held in SE China county to deepen cross-Strait exchanges
From June 10 to June 12, Chen Jinggu Cultural Activities Week, a sub-event of the 18th Straits Forum, drew crowds of locals and visitors from near and far to Gutian County in southeast China’s Fujian Province. For years, such thematic activities have been held consecutively in the county, which is also the cradle of Chen Jinggu culture, to highlight related cultural inheritance and cross-Strait exchanges. Xu Feng, Party chief of Gutian County, attributed the locality’s adherence to holding the cultural week event to shared aspirations for nurturing the common cultural roots among people across the Taiwan Strait. From mountainous eastern Fujian to palaces and temples around the world, there are as…