Ukrainian-language audio guide to be launched in Beijing's Forbidden City

China has supported the idea of launching a Ukrainian-language audio guide in the world's largest palace complex, Gùgōng (the Forbidden City), located in Beijing. As the press service of the Embassy of Ukraine in China informs, this was discussed during a meeting between Ambassador of Ukraine to China Serhiy Kamyshev and the embassy diplomats and Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism of People's Republic of China, co-Chair of the Ukraine-China Subcommittee on Cultural Cooperation Zhang Xu.

"The Chinese side supported the idea of ​​launching an audio guide in the world's largest palace complex – the Gùgōng Museum – as part of the initiative of cultural diplomacy of First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska," reads the statement.

In addition, the parties agreed to hold presentations of the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine with the participation of representatives of leading Ukrainian tourism companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in the second half of 2021. In case of quarantine restrictions, the presentation of Ukraine's tourism potential for interested Chinese tour operators will take place online.

In the field of deepening cooperation between the museums of the two countries, the officials agreed to expand the exchange of experience in the preservation and restoration of art monuments, mutual organization of exhibitions in the leading museum institutions of Ukraine and China.

It is also planned to jointly begin preparations for the organization of festivities to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and China in 2022 and to resume the tours of performs after the quarantine restrictions are lifted.

In addition, the parties discussed the prospects for mutual establishment of cultural centers, as well as the introduction of new forms of cooperation in the field of culture.

As reported, on December 26, 2020, the Ukrainian-language audio guide was launched in the Colosseum in Rome, becoming the ninth audio guide in the world’s museums as part of the project initiated by First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.

This year it is planned to launch Ukrainian-language audio guides in the Tower of London, the Palace of Versailles, the National Museum of Natural History in Berlin, the Vatican Museum, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and the Savitsky State Museum of Art in Uzbekistan.

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