On March 28, 2018, the academic symposium for "the Third Line Construction and the Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era " was held in Panzhihua. More than 100 experts and scholars from all over the country attended the academic sympoisum to discuss and exchange for the theme of "recovering the culture of the Third Line Construction, carrying forward the spirit of the three line construction and enhancing the confidence of the culture".
The academic symposium was sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary China Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China National History Society and the municipal government of Panzhihua for making this opportunity to create a Three Line Construction Cultural brand, enhance the cultural influence and boost the transformation and development of the Panzhihua.
The Third Line Construction was a large-scale construction of national defense, science, technology, industry and transportation infrastructure, which has been carried out in the 13 provinces and autonomous regions since the 1960s. The large scale industrial migration and construction objectively promoted the industrialization in the central and western regions and changed the economic layout.
The Third Line Construction heritage has become a memorable memory in the people’s hearts and the “living legacy” in the modern society. It is of great significance to study the Third Line Construction culture and to excavate its spirit in the rapid development of the society.
In the symposium, the China National History Society awarded “the Forum Base for The Third Line Construction Museum” for Panzhihua.
Professor Zheng Yougui, director of the Institute of the Contemporary China Studies, suggested that the remains of the Third Line construction sites in the 13 provinces should be cooperated together to bid for the "world cultural heritage", and the history and spirit of the construction should be inherited and carried forward.
Li Jianqin, secretary of the Panzhihua committee of CPC, said that Panzhihua holds "the sunshine, the vanadium and titanium, the spirit of The Third Line Construction people”. Panzhihua will take this symposium as an opportunity to further study, publicize and inherit the construction spirit and carefully build the cultural brands to provide a strong spiritual power for the construction of beautiful, prosperous and harmonious Panzhihua.
Translated by weng jun