The 7th High-level Forum on China’s Culture Soft Power Research & Meeting of the Council of National Collaborative Innovation Center for Culture Soft Power” opened at the lecture hall of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on the morning of May 6. The forum was hosted by the National Collaborative Innovation Center for Culture Soft Power Research and undertaken by Hunan University (HNU). Nearly 100 experts and scholars from 22 institutions of higher learning and research institutes attended the event. Zhang Guozuo, director of Chinese Research Center for Culture Soft Power, and HNU President Zhao Yueyu presided over the forum.

The National Collaborative Innovation Center for Culture Soft Power, formerly called the Chinese Research Center of Culture Soft Power, is oriented to the comprehensive improvement of China’s cultural soft power. It aims to meet the nation’s urgent needs, work at the world leading standard and with advanced mechanism, and realize huge achievements. By ways of deepening cooperation, establishing strategic alliances, promoting resource sharing, integrating policy, production, education, research and application, and encouraging collaborative innovation of all walks of life, it will give a lift to the cooperating organizations for a sound and sustainable advancement in the cultural soft power innovative research ability. The center is expected to open a publicizing and communicating channel of China’s culture soft power research and become a world leading research center and data base of culture soft power.