Recently, the 2024 Maritime Silk Road Cities Influence Mayors Exchange Conference was held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. The conference released the "Maritime Silk Road Cities Comprehensive Influence Index Report (2024) - Chinese Cities", revealing the "Maritime Silk Road China Impact "A

Recently, the 2024 Maritime Silk Road Cities Influence Mayors Exchange Conference was held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. The conference released the "Maritime Silk Road Cities Comprehensive Influence Index Report (2024) - Chinese Cities" and announced the "Maritime Silk Road China "Annual List of Influential Cities (2024)", Yantai was shortlisted for the first time among the top ten influential cities of the year, and was the only domestic city to share cases.

"Maritime Silk Road Cities Comprehensive Influence Index Report (2024) - Chinese Cities" was released by the Xinhua Index Research Institute, which focuses on the protection and inheritance of Maritime Silk Road culture in representative cities of the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", and comprehensive urban Through in-depth exploration and continuous tracking of development trends, we not only consider the functions and roles played by the 37 domestic cities along the Belt and Road Initiative in the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative, but also evaluate their practices and effectiveness in participating in international cooperation platforms to promote connectivity. Yantai was selected for the "Annual List of China's Influential Cities on the Maritime Silk Road" for the first time and was the only domestic city to share its experience, providing effective benchmarking research, model mutual learning and practical cases for the development of cities along the route.

In recent years, Yantai has attached great importance to the protection of the cultural heritage of the Maritime Silk Road. It has compiled the "Penglai Water City and Penglai Pavilion Protection Plan" to promote the construction of Beizhuang Archaeological Site Park and promote high-quality environmental improvement, display improvement, and monitoring and management of Maritime Silk Road heritage sites. Through work in other fields, the level of cultural relics protection has been significantly improved. Vigorously promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning along the Maritime Silk Road, organize exchanges between Dengzhou Port and China and South Korea, the 15th International Academic Symposium on Ming History and the 5th Qi Jiguang International Academic Symposium, etc., and explore and organize cultural contexts such as the Eight Immortals and Mazu. Cooperating with CCTV to shoot feature films, the public awareness, dissemination and influence of the cultural value of the Maritime Silk Road have continued to increase. Actively participate in the "Maritime Silk Road" world cultural heritage application, join the Maritime Silk Road World Heritage City Alliance and play an active role, discuss heritage protection with the alliance cities, discuss the plan for the world cultural heritage, and promote the in-depth and practical work of the world cultural heritage application.

As a national historical and cultural city and an important node city on the Maritime Silk Road, Yantai blends the past and the present, adapting the past to the present, and continues to play the strongest voice of culture in the new era, especially this year’s Sunrise Concert, Chinese Film Director’s Night, and Red Wine The series of coastal art exhibitions and performances are outstanding, demonstrating the city's profound cultural heritage and the upward growth of the trillion-dollar city. The Maritime Silk Road is a road of development with bright prospects and a win-win road of open cooperation. Next, Yantai will uphold the Silk Road spirit centered on peace and cooperation, openness and tolerance, mutual learning, and mutual benefit, strengthen the protection of the Maritime Silk Road heritage system, and make good use of carriers such as Penglai Pavilion and the Maritime Silk Road Museum to seize the opportunity Create opportunities for the Changdao Maritime Silk Road Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Demonstration Zone, explore the joint creation and launch of regional and thematic high-quality tourism products with cities along the "Maritime Silk Road", and extensively carry out cultural festivals, art performances, theme exhibitions, dialogues and exchanges, etc. cultural activities and jointly write a new chapter of the Maritime Silk Road.

(Gao Xinyu, intern of popular news reporter Tang Xiaoning)