Chapter 547: Issues with Exporting Culture

After taking a group photo, Guo Ling was about to ask if the photo could be posted to the consulate’s official website.

Unexpectedly, Yang Lingyue said: "Zhang Ling, Director Guo, in addition to expressing my gratitude for this visit, I also want to ask for your opinion. There have been various voices on the domestic Internet regarding my previous shooting and coma. To protect the privacy of others, my family made the decision not to report.

Now, I'm wondering if our consulate can issue a press release to explain the whole story. Just as the group photo just happened, it can be considered a beginning and an end, an official conclusion, and avoid some noise. "

Liu Xiaoli, who was smiling on the side, rolled her eyes inwardly.

Sure enough, as Li Jing said, with the witty words on the banner, this matter is bound to spread quickly, and the name and deeds of the Los Angeles Consulate will naturally spread widely.

Therefore, Yang Lingyue's thank you gift was actually to make the consulate and Zhang Yun famous.

However, the whole story, isn't that her own daughter?

Thinking of this, Liu Xiaoli didn't know whether to persuade her or not.

What Liu Xiaoli can understand, how can these foreign affairs personnel stationed abroad not understand it?

Zhang Yun couldn't help but sigh, it was not unreasonable for this young man to succeed. This gift made the entire consulate elated, and it also allowed the higher-ups to see his deeds and achievements. How could he not be happy like this?

"Of course. As I said before, it has always been our duty to serve our compatriots overseas."

Then Zhang Yun led a few people to visit the consulate and talked about various matters since the opening of the consulate in 1988.

As for the pennant, it has long been circulated in the hands of the consulate staff and taken pictures. No matter who sees it, they will smile knowingly or laugh out loud.

So Zhang Yun said that today should be the day with the most laughter in this building in the past 20 years.

"We are united and tense, serious and lively."

Then Yang Lingyue said that he wanted to talk to Zhang Yun alone. Zhang Yun felt that this young man had once again said what he wanted to say.

In the consular office, Yang Lingyue talked about three things: Carey Bank and Wang, Yao and others, Sun TV's future related variety shows and documentaries, "The Martian" and Colombia. Of course, he also mentioned Liu Xiaoli.

It took Zhang Yun a long time to recover from the shock.

After a while, he said: As I said before, it is our duty to serve our compatriots overseas, let alone our patriotic compatriots.

"Don't get me wrong. I won't embarrass you and the leaders, and I'm not qualified to embarrass you. What I'm telling you is just to communicate with each other. If something really happens, we can just maintain a tacit understanding."

Zhang Yun was very satisfied with Yang Lingyue's statement.

However, since he had spoken out and learned some of Yang Lingyue's background and importance in the hospital last time, he naturally said again that if there was anything he had to say, he could not interfere, but he could also make suggestions.

Zhang Yun also raised a topic, that is, the issue of cultural exports overseas, and started chatting on Sunshine TV.

"It is expected that the Yellow River TV station in Longcheng will be changed to a dedicated TV station for Zhongni Academy at the end of this year. Your Sun TV can broadcast corresponding programs. Of course, your production level is high. You can consider making a program for Zhongni Academy. The production funds can be multi-source. Raising.”

But Yang Lingyue fell into deep thought, and Zhang Yun waited.

"Consul Zhang, I have considered this issue before. Now that you have raised it, with all due respect, as far as I know, Zhongni College is in an embarrassing situation now, with more than 240..."

"Now there are 306 schools."

"Uh, okay, when I learned about it, it was the data as of June. The expansion was so fast, I couldn't help but feel unhappy."

Hearing Yang Lingyue's foreshadowing, Zhang Yun had a bad feeling, but it was also useful to listen to what representatives from the cultural circle had to say.

"Just say whatever you have."

"I have asked international students who have cooperated with Baozi Video to conduct research on 30 Zhongni colleges in ten European and American countries. The survey targets are foreign students, including students who have been there, students who are currently studying, students who want to go to school, and ordinary students. , I can’t remember the specific data clearly, I can send it to you for reference later.

Let me directly conclude that more than 95% of foreign students are curious and do not really like Chinese culture.

Therefore, the so-called cumulative foreign student data published is only true if multiplied by 5%. And these people may not like Chinese culture, but are only interested in Chinese, and not many will persist in the future.

I analyzed the reasons and found that the interest projects offered are indeed good things, such as Peking Opera, tea ceremony, calligraphy, etc. I can understand that we want to bring out the best things, but these are all high-profile and underwhelming in China, let alone foreigners.

This resulted in a situation where people would come to Wuyang Wuyang to clap, cheer, eat and drink during activities, and it would be very lively. When it came time to actually teach, there would be more teachers than students.

Not to mention that from time to time, Western politicians say that it is an organization that promotes ideology. Of course they understand what it is, and they also know that our teachers do not mention it, but it does not prevent others from using it to create panic and win votes.

In view of this, I gave up the idea of ​​cooperation.

Maybe there is a meaning that I don’t know, but as far as the proposition of cultural exports is concerned, the return on investment of this approach is horribly low. "

After Zhang Yun said that he would send the research data to him, he fell into silence. He actually believed that what Yang Lingyue said was true. If it were a profit-making organization, all of them would have closed down long ago.

But what can be done?

Someone may ask, is it okay not to do it?

Of course not. Every year, a large number of products are exported, even if they are high-tech and world-class products. Too many ordinary foreigners will think that they are cheap and low-quality products when they see that they are made in China.

If you don’t understand, think about why the saying that all mobile phones made in India are full of E. coli has spread all over the world.

Think about the poor 3-year-old children in Central Africa who talk about "Harry Potter" very well.

Both hard power and soft power must be developed, and they complement each other and are indispensable.

Could it be that the country is not aware of it?

Of course it is aware of it, otherwise why are some Zhongni Colleges closed one after another, improving their content, and the news is almost not reported?

But this time is 5 years later.

After another long while, Zhang Yun asked tentatively: "Have you thought about specific practices?"

Yang Lingyue felt that Zhang Yun was really a very pragmatic official. What he said just now was extremely unpleasant, but he didn't hear words like "You are still young" and "You don't know the height of the world".

"I always think that this matter should be left to the private sector and capital. What the government should do is to check and support. As for the content, what our young people like may not be disliked by foreign young people."

PS: Today's chapter content was written very slowly, but very carefully. The author sighed several times. In the middle of the chapter, he took out the guitar that he hadn't touched for several years and fiddled with it for half an hour. Haha.

Fortunately, there is one more chapter, and I will continue tomorrow. If not, I will talk about it next time.