In Harbin, the largest city in northern China (more than 10 million inhabitants), since January 5, as part of its annual ice sculpture festival, a giant reproduction of Notre-Dame has been lit up in the evening next to an equally cold and colorful copy of the Temple of Heaven.
There, the vast operation of binational cultural diplomacy began.
Thawing tourism on both sides between the two countries, and, more generally, exchanges and relations after Covid, this is the objective of the Franco-Chinese Year of Cultural Tourism, intensification of the announced program of events in 2019 by the two presidents as part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Paris and Beijing.
This Wednesday, from Versailles, the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, should give the final list of celebrations.
She will then attend a concert given by the National Traditional Orchestra of China and the Opera Orchestra…
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