Leisure & Cultural Services Director Michelle Li signed a Letter of Intent on Co-operation with Dunhuang Academy Director Wang Xudong in Dunhuang today.
Both sides agreed to further strengthen cultural exchange and collaboration and to promote Dunhuang culture.
The two sides also agreed to continue holding thematic exhibitions on Dunhuang culture in Hong Kong, to organise joint education and promotion projects to enhance understanding among Hong Kong people - especially the young generation - of Dunhuang's art and culture, and to co-operate in digitisation of Dunhuang relics and the development of multimedia programmes to showcase the art and culture of the Dunhuang caves in diversified ways.
Mutual exchange and training of professionals in exhibition planning, publicity and conservation of relics will also be enhanced. The department hopes to organise another Dunhuang culture exhibition in 2018.
Last year's "Dunhuang - Untold Tales, Untold Riches" exhibition was well received, attracting about 200,000 visitors. The expo showcased some 120 sets of invaluable exhibits and was the largest exhibition of its kind to be held in Hong Kong.
The department also collaborated with the Education Bureau to arrange special visiting sessions for schools to allow students and teachers to learn about the splendour of Dunhuang culture.
