The New Silk Road
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2018-09-24

For millennia, the ancient Silk Road allowed unprecedented exchange between cultures through the movement of ideas, goods and people. How will the Belt and Road Initiative, or the New Silk Road, redefined by China, change cultural and historical dynamics along its routes?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Competing ideas about heritage and identity
- Acknowledging the social cost to communities
- Renewed vision of cultural diplomacy

Speakers:
- Chao Hing, Executive Director, International Guoshu Association, Hong Kong SAR, China; Cultural Leader.
- Rena Effendi, Photographer, Turkey; Cultural Leader.
- Bruno Maçães, Senior Fellow, Renmin University of China, People's Republic of China.
- Mokena Makeka, Creative Director and Managing Director, Makeka Design Lab, South Africa; Young Global Leader, Cultural Leader.

Moderated by:
- Zhang Lujing, Editorial Director, China Economic Weekly, People's Republic of China.

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