00:00Suzhou is one of China's most important historical cities and a key center for cultural heritage preservation.
00:07Our correspondent Bruno Falshi is in that city and brings us more details.
00:14Suzhou, located in southern China with over 2,500 years of history, is a city that projects its legacy into the future.
00:23This ancient metropolis uses its museums as a center of cutting-edge cultural innovation, solidifying its position as a global benchmark in the management and dissemination of its vast heritage.
00:40The Shanshu Museum is a first-class national museum, being the first of its level in the Shanghai region.
00:47It holds a large quantity and variety of high-quality collections, 18,000 sets of objects, including 21 sets of first-class national cultural relics, 284 second-class and 834 third-class, ranking among the most important in China.
01:08The Shanshu Museum also gives great importance to academic work and has published numerous research volumes.
01:17Suzhou museums combine history and modernity. Their cultural spaces showcase both the city-rich heritage and contemporary innovation, offering unique experience for local and international visitors.
01:34I think museums in Suzhou have something very magical, which I think Suzhou every area is a story, and I think museums are the key to unlock these stories.
01:44And I think we've been to three, four museums so far, actually. We've been to the Sixth Art Museum, we are right now at the Suzhou Bay Museum, and we've also been to yesterday, which is the Suzhou Museum West, where we saw, you know, a collaboration between Suzhou's Gardens and Monet.
01:59So I thought that was really fantastic. And today, I think what was really special was also the Suzhou Brocade Museum. So I think all of them really left a different kind of impression on me.
02:11China has rapidly developed its museum network and promotes its openness to the world.
02:18The museums, the museums participate in international exchange that reflect the history, values and philosophy of life of the Chinese people, projecting the country's culture onto the global stage.
02:31The museums in China have developed very quickly. Today, there are more than 7,000 across the country, and the government promotes their international openness.
02:46The exchanges aim for three objectives. To show who we are as a people, to explain where we come from through our cultural heritage, and to project where we are going as a country.
03:02We want the world to better understand our civilization and our people through its cultural heritage.
03:08A city that looks to the future without losing its roots, projecting Suzhou and China as global leaders in heritage and culture.
03:20Bruno Falchi, Suzhou.
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