On December 30, 2021, the signing ceremony of the framework agreement of comprehensive strategic partnership was held between the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTCOM). Huang Song, Executive Director and Party Secretary of China Translation Corporation, Wang Danying, Director and CEO of GTCOM, Fan Di'an, President of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wang Xiaolin, Deputy Party Secretary and relevant department heads of CAFA attended the signing ceremony. Li Yue, secretary of the Board of Directors of GTCOM, and Wang Chuan, Director of International Office of CAFA signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.
President Fan Di’an stated in his speech that the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with history of about 100 years and as the highest institution of fine arts in China, has been adhering to the school philosophy of "Paying attention to reality and serving the people" and the school motto of "attain to the broad and great while addressing the delicate and minute ". While promoting the development of Chinese art and art education, it shoulders the task and mission of inheriting and innovating Chinese excellent traditional culture and carrying out international exchanges. As the "national teams" in their respective fields, GTCOM and CAFA have established the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, which is committed to enhancing the openness and international communication capacity of education in the new era.
Secretary Huang Song said in his speech, GTCOM is the key enterprises of the artificial intelligence big data belonged to China Translation Corporation, which has absolute advantages in machine translation, cross-language big data and natural language processing and knowledge map technologies, and it also has rich experiences in areas of multilingual international communication, big data platform construction and Industrial application of artificial intelligence. GTCOM is capable of working with CAFA to explore the technical path for the international communication of Chinese art and culture, and to tell the story of Chinese art and culture and spread the voice of China in the process of technology empowerment and art resources re-feeding innovation, thereby presenting the true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China
The establishment of strategic cooperative relationship between CAFA and GTCOM is a practical measure to implement the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speech on strengthening China's capability for international communication. In the future, the two sides will cooperate with each other and complement each other's advantages to seek a wisdom plan for international communication of Chinese art and art education, and make practical contributions to "Chinese culture going global".
According to the agreement, both parties will take the construction of the international communication website of CAFA as an opportunity to jointly build a new platform for international communication of CAFA in the new era, and gradually explore and create "International communication wisdom solution of Chinese Art education". The two sides will launch the joint project of "Chinese Art Corpus (multilingual)" to complete the key basic research on the international communication of Chinese art, and standardize the national standard for the language vocabulary of the international communication of Chinese art. To empower the innovative development of fine arts education with science and technology, jointly carry out cross-field and cross-media theoretical research and innovative practice, and promote the in-depth cooperation of Industry-University-Research.