Eastern Forum I

Author: Dongfang Lectures Office
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: More than 130 lecture venues selected by Dongfang Lectures; a team of more than 600 specially appointed experts; over 2,000 lectures of various types; attended by more than 800,000 people. We clarify the difficulties of knowledge, interpret social changes, and answer doubts in the heart. A landmark project for learning cities and a public welfare platform for social education. The most powerful cultural brand, the most focused urban topics, the most valuable cultural investment. Dongfang Lectures is co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai Association of Social Sciences. Its founding purpose is to vigorously promote the implementation of the overall strategy of rejuvenating the city through science and education, adapt to the needs of building learning cities and promoting the all-round development of people, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the general public, stay close to reality, life, and the masses, and build the main battlefield for publicity and ideological work serving the grassroots and the masses. The content of Dongfang Lectures mainly includes ten categories: international situation, national conditions, and municipal conditions; current affairs, policies, and social hot issues; personal development and moral growth; education and management; history and culture; economy and finance; legal knowledge; art appreciation; national defense knowledge; health and wellness, etc. Dongfang Lectures gathers experts and scholars active in various disciplines of social sciences, forming a high-quality team of lecturers. The lecture venues of Dongfang Lectures are spread across all districts and counties in the city, receiving widespread praise from all sectors of society. The founding philosophy of Dongfang Lectures is "people-oriented, serving the masses, spreading knowledge, and enhancing civilization." Through the operational mechanisms of serializing lecture series, branding image identification, networked lecture management, menu-style lecture selection, socialized audience organization, contractual lecturer recruitment, sustainable project expansion, strong publicity and promotion, and diversified funding sources, it strives to shape a new brand for ideological and cultural construction. To further expand the social influence of high-quality lecture resources, the Dongfang Lectures Office began editing and publishing Dongfang Lectures in 2005. The 24 lecture manuscripts included in the first volume of Dongfang Lectures are the first batch selected from more than 1,000 lectures, now compiled into a book for readers.