Agricultural Museum Lecture Series Held at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center
On this year's “May 18 International Museum Day”, the “Agricultural Museum Lecture Series” special lectures hosted by the National Agricultural Exhibition Center (China Agricultural Museum) opened in Beijing, inviting Tsinghua University professor Li Qiang to give the opening lecture on the topic of “urbanization and urban-rural coordination”.
Director Sui Bin said this is the first time the National Agricultural Exhibition Center (China Agricultural Museum) has held lectures of this kind. The center shoulders the responsibility of “publicizing agriculture, rural areas and farmers and serving society”, and by opening its doors to hold lectures it strives to build a platform for the public to understand, learn about, exchange views on, inherit and carry forward China's traditional farming culture, and to interpret hot issues in the agricultural economy and society and issues of cultural development.
The first lecture was given by the renowned sociologist and dean of the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, Li Qiang. He focused on the issues of China's urbanization and urban-rural coordination, delivering a specialized lecture on aspects including the major significance of urbanization to China, urbanization theory and international comparisons, urbanization and the enormous pressure of the rural population, solving the difficult problems encountered by cities and rural areas, and exploration of in-situ urbanization and nearby urbanization models.
⟦NL> It is understood that this lecture series is planned to be held once each quarter, mainly focusing on themes such as agricultural farming civilization, interpretation of agricultural policy, museum operation and management, restoration and authentication of cultural relics, protection of agricultural and rural cultural heritage, and social hot issues, inviting high-level experts and scholars from the cultural, agricultural and museum circles to come and give lectures. In addition to employees of institutions directly under the Ministry of Agriculture, this lecture also invited some university students and residents of surrounding communities to participate.