China's National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is making efforts in strengthening cultural and art exchanges between China and other countries, said the NCPA president Friday in an interview with China Central Television.

Since its establishment in 2007, the NCPA has been committed to building a platform for exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign performing art groups and companies. In 2020, it launched the World Association for Performing Arts, with 24 performing art institutions from 17 countries being included as the founding members of the organization.
NCPA President Wang Ning, also a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, said that they will continue to give full play to the role of the international platform in communicating with others.
His remarks came before this year's "two sessions," which will offer the world a window to observe China's development and understand its policy direction for the following year. The second session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) and the second session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee will open on March 5 and 4, respectively.
"We hope our Chinese culture will go overseas so that more audiences around the world can learn about the development of Chinese culture. Besides, we should also bring in others to enable Chinese audiences to follow the progress of world culture and moreover, attract a larger number of foreign artists to know the foundation and development of Chinese culture. Then when they go back, they can impart the current development situation of our Chinese culture to others, which will be conducive to enhancing the spread and influence of Chinese civilization," said Wang.
As a national cultural platform, the NCPA, with new cultural missions in the new era, will always stay confident in our culture, uphold openness and inclusiveness, adhere to fundamental principles and break new ground, said Wang.
"We proposed to build a platform for performing arts, original arts, art popularization and education, comprehensive art display, cultural exchanges and mutual learning, and integration of science and technology and culture. Of course, our quest for these will never end. We will continue to enrich its content," said Wang.