On September 9, the 2022 Harmony and Cooperation Civilization Forum, jointly hosted by Tsinghua University and the International Confucian Association, was held at Tsinghua University in an virtual and reality combination meeting.

Yandong Liu, President of the International Confucian Association, and former Deputy Prime Minister of the China State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote address.

Fukuda Yasuo, Chairman of the International Confucian Association and former Prime Minister of Japan, andQiu Yong, Chairman of Tsinghua University Council, delivered opening address.

Xiaoguang Wang, Professor, Associate Dean of the SIM,Wuhan University, Director of the Intelligent Computing of Cultural Heritage, as guest speaker of the Forum, gave a report onFrom Silk Road Pearl to Cultural Heritage Data Center: A Thought on the Construction of Dunhuang Smart Dataat the panel session of Characters, Literature and Civilization in the Digital Era.

From the point of view of Dunhuang cultural heritage as the representative of ancient civilization, and the important witness of cultural exchange between the East and the West,Xiaoguang Wangprofoundly explained the great value of digital technology to realize the digital immortality of cultural heritage, and put forward the concept and construction idea of cultural heritage intelligent data based on the practice of Dunhuang intelligent data exploration. He believed that intelligent data is the advanced organizational form and expression of knowledge and information resources. Digital technology can not only realize the digital immortality of cultural heritage, but also realize the digital regeneration of cultural heritage in digital space by means of data association, knowledge fusion, virtual restoration, digital narration and intelligent interaction, and construct a new type of digital heritage that reflects the achievements of contemporary civilization and benefits future generations.

Xiaoguang Wangpointed out that Dunhuang was the center of trade and culture of the ancient Silk Road. Facing the transformation of social digitalization, Dunhuang cultural heritage resources need to be converted into modern digital collections. Therefore, he put forward the proposal of building a cultural heritage intelligent data center, which is of great significance and value in building an open cultural heritage communication network, developing digital humanities research, promoting humanities exchanges in the Belt and Road Initiative and the construction of Community of Shared Future for Mankind, spreading Chinese excellent traditional culture and realizing the continuity of human civilization in digital space.

The Harmony and Cooperation Civilization Forum is an important international forum of the International Confucian Association. It has been held once a year since 2020 and has been held for two consecutive sessions. The themes of the previous two forums were Sino-Japan Cultural Exchange and Mutual Learning of Civilizations and Enhancing Mutual Learning of Asian Civilizations and Promoting Common Development in Asia. The theme of this forum was Harmony and Cooperation -- Towards a New Era of Digital Civilization.

The opening ceremony and the panel sessions were presided over respectively byGang Peng, Vice President of Tsinghua University, andLai Chen, Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Tsinghua, Vice Chairman of the International Confucian Association and Director of the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning.

Kishore Mahbubani, former President of the United Nations Security Council and the founding Dean of The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore,

Hui Wang, Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Tsinghua, Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences,

Roger T. Ames, Vice President of the International Confucian Association and Chair Professor of Humanities at Peking University,

Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Professor of East Asian Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Göttingen, also Vice President of the International Confucian Association,

Chu Yun-han, Professor of Political Science at Taiwan University and Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Chinese Culture,

Zhongqing Li, Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and other scholars from China, Japan, Singapore, the United States, Germany, Britain, India, Slovenia, Brunei and other countries and regions attended the Forum to discuss how to build a symbiotic, shared and win-win community of digital in the digital space.