On March 7, the city's "Home of Overseas Chinese" construction work promotion meeting was held in Rongchang. Photo by reporter Zhou Yu.
On March 7, the city's "Home of Overseas Chinese" construction work promotion meeting was held in Rongchang. The reporter learned at the meeting that up to now, the city has built 124 "homes of overseas Chinese" at all levels, an increase of 300% in the past four years, and has become an important position for grassroots federations of overseas Chinese to contact and serve the masses of overseas Chinese and promote the work of the federation.
At the promotion meeting, the Federation of Overseas Chinese in Rongchang District and the "Home of Overseas Chinese" in Guangyi Street Community, Lianhua Street, Banan District, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" in the South Community of Southwest University, Beiquan Street, Beibei District, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" of the Federation of Overseas Chinese in Changshou District, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" of the Yangtze River Normal University, and the "Home of Overseas Chinese" in Xiangyi Community of Zhongxian County, made exchange speeches.
In recent years, relying on the national intangible cultural heritage, Rongchang District has organically combined the resources of the overseas Chinese community with traditional culture, sang the story of Bayu with the voice of culture, and gathered the value consensus with the soul of culture, creating three activities with unique nostalgia and overseas Chinese rhyme, such as the "Home of Overseas Chinese" in Rongchang glasses industry, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" in Rongchang Tao and the "Home of Overseas Chinese" in Rongchang Xiabu.
Among them, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" of Rongchang Tao with the help of the Chinese overseas Chinese international cultural exchange base and its own platform, recommend Rongchang pottery, folding fans, Xia cloth and other products to be exhibited at domestic and foreign exhibitions, boost the publicity and exchange and cooperation of intangible cultural heritage, receive more than 500 international friends, overseas Chinese and Chinese teenagers to experience intangible cultural heritage skills, and expand the international popularity and reputation of Rongchang pottery at the same time, with the help of the "tourism +" cultural exchange base, drive the surrounding people to increase their income and get rich, and jointly help rural revitalization.
The "Home of Overseas Chinese" in the South Community of Southwest University in Beibei District adopts the methods of school-local co-construction, joint activities and resource sharing, so that the community "Home of Overseas Chinese" and Southwest University share human resources, position resources and material resources, and the community and student volunteers of Southwest University and various functional departments jointly carry out service activities and cultural activities for overseas Chinese, which enhances its cohesion and service ability, and makes it a warm home for the community of overseas Chinese to share development, opportunities and achievements.
Yangtze River Normal University, located in Fuling District, has more than 23,000 full-time undergraduate students and more than 300 international students. Since its establishment in 2021, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" of the university has actively promoted the docking and cooperation between Xinqiao and Fuling National Incubator - Jinqu Incubation Zone and Municipal Maker Space - Fuling E-commerce Maker Space, built an incubation service platform, and provided one-stop innovation and entrepreneurship incubation services for Xinqiao; On the other hand, it supports Xinqiao to host the academic journal "Journal of Changjiang Normal University". In the past three years, Xinqiao has won 5 national social science projects, 3 natural science projects, more than 100 industry-university-research cooperation projects, obtained a total scientific research fund of more than 20 million yuan, authorized about 20 invention patents, and realized 6 patent transfers.
At the same time, the "Home of Overseas Chinese" of the university has worked hard to play the "overseas Chinese" card, introduced more than 30 doctors and 2 foreigners to Yangtze River Normal University, and established exchanges and cooperative relations with more than 30 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 10 countries and regions.
We must not just be satisfied with 'building' positions and 'erecting' signs, but more importantly, we must make them 'alive and strong'! Meng Weihong, Secretary of the Party Group and Chairman of the Municipal Federation of Overseas Chinese, asked all "homes of overseas Chinese" to build families and make friends, build homes to benefit the people, build homes to stay rooted, build families to protect overseas Chinese, and build families to prosper, and constantly enrich the content and form of serving overseas Chinese and serving the overall situation, so that the "home of overseas Chinese" can truly become a trusted warm home for returned overseas Chinese and their relatives and overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese studying abroad, and a home of unity and struggle, and an emotional landmark and spiritual home for the masses of overseas Chinese.