The opening ceremony of Pan-Himalayan Center for Cultural and Religious Research and “One Belt One Road” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Platform of Sichuan University was held at Jiang’an campus of Sichuan University on September 27th. This ceremony is one of the important parts of Sichuan University’s 120th anniversary commemoration activities.
The opening ceremony was presided by Bu Hong, vice president of Sichuan University. Luo Zhongshu, deputy secretary of Party Committee of Sichuan University and president of Pan-Himalayan Center for Cultural and Religious Research, delivered speech. Jointly established by Sichuan University, Sichuan International Peace and Development Research Center and Sichuan Suiyuan Investment and Consultation limited Corporation, the research center is aimed at conducting scientific research, talent cultivation, collection collecting and display, international and domestic academic exchange in Pan-Himalaya region, expanding Sichuan University’s exploration concerning world, human beings and future and serving the construction of “One Belt and One Road”.
Luo Zhongshu emphasized that Pan-Himalaya region have not only unique natural environment, but also distinctive history, culture, population, ethnic groups, customs and systems. It is a bridge to Indian Ocean, west Asia, Africa and Europe as well as the core region of “One Belt and One Road” construction which contains a number of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and multinational hot issues of global significance. Besides, Sichuan has always had closed exchange with countries and regions around Himalaya in history. For ancient China, it was an important hub leading to South Asia and Southeast Asia and connecting Europe and Africa.
Sichuan University’s research on Pan-Himalaya region gradually goes deeper. Sichuan University has always paid high attention to the research on politics, economy, society, culture and ecology of Pan-Himalaya region in a long term. It has established Institute of South Asian Studies, Institute of Tibetan Studies, Institute of Religious Studies, etc. Meanwhile, it has successively built partnership with a lot of research institutions like Cambridge University, Tribhuvan University, Himalaya University Union to promote the work of Himalaya multimedia database construction, Himalaya special language training, Himalaya cultural collections display, etc. Based on these work, Sichuan University builds “One Belt and One Road” innovation and entrepreneurship platform which is one of the six national “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” platforms.
80-odd attendees from Oxford University, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu Municipal Peoples Congress, Sichuan University, etc. attended the opening ceremony.