Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor proposed in his last "Policy Address" to study the establishment of a "Cultural Sports and Tourism Bureau" to unify the creative industries and tourism of the Cultural Affairs and Commerce and Economic Development Bureau currently dispersed in the Civil Affairs Bureau. , To promote the development of Hong Kong into a cultural and artistic exchange center between China and foreign countries.
Member of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, Zunian.
Hu Enwei, Joint Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of Icosahedron, believes that the new Cultural and Sports Bureau should lead Hong Kong out of the current cultural dilemma, enhance its soft power, and set the ultimate goal of building the capabilities of Hong Kong people.
Hu Enwei pointed out that Hong Kong’s current cultural dilemma has several characteristics: First, the social unrest in 2019 revealed that most young people in Hong Kong do not understand or know China, nor the West, and there are very serious problems. Foreign slave thinking and irrational hatred.
This is precisely the most important issue that the Culture and Sports Bureau needs to deal with.
Secondly, whether it is design soft power, architectural soft power, film and television soft power, or artistic soft power, Hong Kong has fallen sharply.
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Hu Enwei believes that the Hong Kong government’s cultural and sports policy and the newly established Cultural and Sports Bureau must reverse the above-mentioned situation.
In the article "If I were the Director of Culture", he proposed four aspects that must be handled as the Director of the Bureau of Culture...
For details, please read the 286th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (October 11, 2021) "
If I were the Director of Culture
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