3月26日，在亚洲青年领袖论坛“亚洲的未来”青年领袖交流会上，全国政协委员 、中国美术家协会理事舒勇发表了主旨演讲。
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大家好！我是舒勇，一名艺术工作者。很荣幸受邀参加此次亚洲青年领袖论坛，与亚洲各国的青年领袖们互通交流，共享合作机遇，共创美好未来。
这次论坛的主题是“增强青年合作，凝聚共同价值，促进亚洲和平与发展”。当今世界面临的全球性问题复杂交织，任何国家都无法单独解决应对，迫切需要不同地域文明与群体超越分歧和隔阂进行建设性的对话，相互理解，达成共识。只有加强国际合作，才能促进共同发展。因此，从跨学科视角探讨全球性议题，让更多青年领袖对全球挑战和机遇有更深入和全面的了解就显得尤为重要。而亚洲青年领袖论坛就承担着这样的使命，以论坛为“桥”，凝聚共识，为亚洲的青年领袖们架起一座友谊、合作、发展、沟通之桥。
在中国，桥是连通空间的实体建筑。建于隋朝的赵州桥至今仍然在发挥作用；连接两岸人民的枢纽——港珠澳大桥，是一座圆梦桥、同心桥、自信桥、复兴桥。桥，也是联通人们心灵和理想的重要载体。七夕的“鹊桥”表达了中国人民对美好幸福爱情生活的热烈追求。桥，更是我们与各国联结的纽带。2013年，总书记提出了“一带一路”倡议。“一带一路”开创了合作共赢、共同发展的新时代，推动构建人类命运共同体，让我们看到了一座跨越鸿沟，链接未来的和平发展之桥。
如何才能联通全世界呢？世界文明各美其美，美美与共，而花是美的公共艺术符号，也是一种国际语言，花通常可以代表一个国家、一个民族的性格。在世界文明的百花园里，架起一座和平发展之桥，这个想法一下子就激活了我的创作激情。在历经无数的困难后，我在2015年终于完成了这一座金碧辉煌的“琥珀金桥”，成为了一名“架桥人”。
恰逢米兰世博会的邀请，于是我带着《丝路金桥》跨越山海，千里迢迢地去到了欧洲文艺复兴的发源地——意大利。这是世界人民第一次通过一座艺术之桥来了解中国的“一带一路”倡议。它以中国最古老的“赵州桥”为原型，将代表各个国家的国花融入到了桥上的琥珀金砖中。金光璀璨的《丝路金桥》一经亮相就成为世界聚光灯下的焦点。它恢宏大气的外形让世博会上的游客们惊叹不已。一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。这座在世界百花园里架起的和平金桥，让来自世界各个国家的游客都能够在桥身上琥珀金砖里找到属于自己国家的国花，这一瞬间就和大家产生了共鸣。
因为在世博会上产生的国际影响力，我收到了来自联合国教科文组织“丝绸之路计划”的邀请，他们希望《丝路金桥》可以在更多的国家展出。2016年，《丝路金桥》回到北京，并且在长安街上精彩亮相，成为建国以来首个在长安街上展出的当代艺术作品。《丝路金桥》频繁亮相于各种重大主题活动上，比如两届“一带一路”国际合作高峰论坛、首届亚洲文明对话大会、建党百年庆祝大会、两届服贸会等等，成为世界共同推动“构建人类命运共同体”伟大构想的见证物。《丝路金桥》还入选了初中政治教科书和《社会主义发展简史》《百年大党面对面》等一系列权威理论学习读本中。在2022年国庆期间，《丝路金桥》出现在《人民日报》 “非凡十年”专版版头的核心位置上，并且入选了《青春有约，强国有我》的最新读本。
截至2023年1月，中国已经和150个国家、32个国际组织签署了200多份共建“一带一路”合作文件，《丝路金桥》也收集到了将近一百多个国家元首在丝路金砖上签名，这代表着世界各国对“一带一路”倡议的认同。我也记得在2019年，应哈萨克斯坦首都阿斯塔纳市政府的邀请，我计划在该市建造世界上首个“丝路金桥”广场。时任总统纳扎尔巴耶夫还亲自接见了我，对丝路金桥给予了高度赞赏，并且邀请了吉尔吉斯斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦等三国总统共同在“丝路金砖”上签名，以此来表达对中国“一带一路”倡议的支持。基辛格博士访华期间，我也曾经尝试邀请他在金砖上签名，他开始有一些犹豫，于是我向他解释，这座桥代表着和平友谊，是希望为世界人民搭建起一座友谊的金桥，于是他欣然的接受了邀请，成为第一个在丝路金砖上签名的美国代表。
从2013年到今天， 是“一带一路”倡议的十年，也是《丝路金桥》的十年。这座桥从创意到创作，从国外到国内，从展览到签名，收获了国内外的一致的好评，这也是“一带一路”文化之路上的重要成果之一。
“逢山开路，遇水搭桥”是我们中国人的传统，我希望同亚洲青年领袖论坛在座的各位青年领袖们一起努力，携手建桥，一起过桥，以人文交流架起亚洲和平发展之桥，为全人类的发展做出努力。谢谢！
Shu Yong advocates building bridges for Asian peace and development
On 26 March, Shu Yong, member of CPPCC National Committee and member of China Artists Association, delivered a keynote speech at the Youth Leaders Exchange on “Future of Asia” of the Asia Youth Leaders Forum. Following is the full text of the speech.
Good afternoon. I am Shu Yong, an art worker. I am honored to be here at this Asia Youth Leaders Forum to exchange ideas with youth leaders from Asia and share cooperation opportunities for a better future.
The theme of this forum is to enhance youth cooperation, strengthen common values, and promote the peace and development of Asia. In the face of a host of global challenges, no country can stand alone. It requires different sectors, civilizations, and groups to overcome differences and divides, engage in constructive dialogue, enhance mutual understanding, and reach consensus. Only by strengthening international cooperation can we promote common development. Therefore, it is of greater significance to discuss global issues from an interdisciplinary perspective and enable youth leaders to have a deeper and holistic understanding of global challenges and opportunities. And this is the mission Asia Youth Leaders Forum has taken on, serving as a “bridge” to pool consensus and as a bridge for youth leaders of Asia that fosters friendship, cooperation, development, and communication.
The bridge is a physical construct that connect spaces. The Zhaozhou Bridge, built during the Sui Dynasty, is still in use today. Connecting people across the Pearl River, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is a bridge of dreams, unity, confidence, and rejuvenation. The bridge is also an important medium to connect people's hearts and ideals. The "Magpie Bridge" on the Double Seventh Festival conveys the passion of Chinese people for a beautiful and happy love life. More importantly, the bridge the link between nations. In 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative, which heralded a new era of win-win cooperation and common development and promoted the building of a human community with a shared future, visualizing before us a bridge of peace and development that spans gaps and connects the future.
How can we connect with the world? Each civilization has its own beauty, and diversity spells greater beauty. The flower is a symbol of beauty and an international language. The flower can often represent the character of a country or a people. In the garden of world civilizations, we can build a bridge of peace and development. This idea immediately ignited my creative passion. After numerous difficulties, I finally completed this magnificent amber-colored golden bridge in 2015, becoming a “bridge builder”.
I happened to receive the invitation from the Milan Expo at the time, so I brought the “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” all the way across mountains and seas to the birthplace of European Renaissance, Italy. It was the first time that people around the world had learned about the Belt and Road Initiative through an artistic bridge. The bridge is based on China's oldest bridge, Zhaozhou Bridge. It incorporates various national flowers into the golden bricks of the bridge. Once the dazzling “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” made its debut, it became the focus of global attention. Its grand and magnificent appearance left visitors to the Expo in awe. A single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full bloom herald its coming. In this golden bridge of peace on display in the garden of the world, visitors from around the world could find their national flowers on the golden bricks of the bridge, which inspired resonance in an instant.
Its international influence generated at the Expo led to an invitation from UNESCO’s Silk Roads Programme. They hoped that the “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” could go on exhibition in more countries. In 2016, the “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” returned to Beijing and made a splendid appearance on Chang'an Avenue, marking the first contemporary art exhibit on Chang'an Avenue since the founding of PRC. The “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” frequently appeared in various major events later, such as two sessions of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, the first Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of CPC’s founding, and two sessions of the China International Fair for Trade in Services. It became a witness to the great vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity. The “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” was even included in high-school politics textbooks, as well as a series of authoritative theoretical books such as A Concise History of Socialist Development and Facing the Party's Centenary. During the National Day celebrations in 2022, the “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” was featured in the Extraordinary Decade special page of People’s Daily on a prominent position of the page’s header. It was also included in the latest volume of A Promise with Youth to Make a Great Nation.
Up till January 2023, China has signed more than 200 cooperation agreements with 150 countries and 32 international organizations to advance the Belt and Road Initiative. The “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” has also collected signatures from nearly 100 heads of state on its golden bricks, representing the recognition of the Belt and Road Initiative by countries around the world. I remember, in 2019, at the invitation of the capital of Kazakhstan, I planned to build the world's first “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” square in the city. Then President Nazarbayev met with me and spoke highly of the “Golden Bridge on Silk Road”. He also invited the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to join him in signing on the golden bricks to show support for the Belt and Road Initiative. During Dr. Kissinger's visit to China, I also invited him to sign on a golden brick. At first, he hesitated. So, I explained to him that this bridge symbolized peace and friendship and was a bridge of amity for the people of the world. He then gladly accepted the invitation and became the first American to sign on the golden bridge.
The period from 2013 to today has been the decade of the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as the decade of the “Golden Bridge on Silk Road”. This bridge has gone from conception to creation, traveled from abroad to home, and evolved from exhibitions to signatures. It has been well received domestically and internationally. It is an important achievement on the cultural journey of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Building roads and bridges to cross mountains and riversis a Chinese tradition. I wish to join efforts with all youth leaders here at the Asia Youth Leaders Forum to build and cross bridges, promoting peace and development in Asia through cultural exchanges and contributing to humanity’s development.
Thank you.
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