Lately, Trendy Beijing 2021, an event for Beijing-London cultural exchange jointly planned by Beijing Publishing Group, Beijing Radio and Television Station, British Federation of Beijing, and Beijing Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese was held synchronously in offline and online venues in Beijing and London.
The first volume of the Trendy Beijing series (English version), Trendy Beijing: Tips for Popular Photo Shots in Beijing arrived in London. Locations such as the dynamic Wudaoying hutong, Sanlitun under neon lamps, scholarly October Faculty of Arts, transformed Green Heart Park, the tranquil online popular bookstores depicted by the writers Wang Yi and Sheng Lei slowly presented the charm of the new Beijing in front of London citizens and local overseas Chinese in the forms of beautiful proses, practical tips, exquisite pictures, and video QR code links.
Trendy Beijing is a spark. It has produced a positive social impact in planning and promoting activities, leading Beijing elements with the characteristics of New Beijing to actively participate in it. At the invitation of the British side, Xu Zechen’s Going Northward, Qiu Huadong’s Biography of Beijing, Zhou Min’s Little Devil Immortals of Luogu Lane, and other books showing contemporary Beijing selected by Beijing Publishing Group were shipped to London. As the expansion and supplement of Trendy Beijing, they displayed Beijing culture in multiple aspects, arousing a warm response in the United Kingdom. (Mu)