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2019 Antarctic Forum Development Strategy Advisory Meeting Held in Shanghai

Drive to the other side of the earth and heart——

 

200 global elites will begin their journey to Antarctic, themed with “the world we want” in Late October 2019. Some of the guests who will attend the 2019 Antarctic low-carbon expedition gathered in Shanghai Xijiao State Guest Hotel on July 26th. They launched a dialogue on Antarctic Forum development strategy. 

 

 

Deputy director of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, leader of Shanghai Public Relations Association, former Head of Pudong New District Wei Hu; former chairman and party committee secretary of China Shipping (Group) Company Shaode Li; former deputy secretary of CPC Pudong New District, deputy leader of Shanghai Public Relations Association, the vice president of the Antarctic Forum Xianxun Zhang; former director of HUANENG Power Intl Inc., independent chairman of China Zhong Yun Group Dawei Wu; inspector of Shanghai Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Committee, former deputy director of Shanghai Housing Security Bureau Yuan Pang; senior news and media personnel, distinguished professor of Fudan University, founder and chief editor of Chinese Network of Financial Times Lifen Zhang; the vice president of the Antarctic Forum, chairman of CRED Holding Co., Ltd Guojie Gui all attended the conference.

 

During the journey to the other side of the earth and heart, what kind of issues should the Antarctic Forum focus on. That is the first topic that everyonepays attention to.

 

Professor Lifen Zhang is the senior news and media personnel, distinguished professor of Fudan University, founder and chief editor of Chinese Network of Financial Times. He pointed out from history and culture that: in various myths and legends of human, boat is often regarded as the carrier of civilization in the disaster, such as Noah's Ark. Our journey to Antarctic with a boat contains not only the concept of people in the same condition helping each other but also going to the other side together.

 

Professor Yin Wang, Deputy President of healthy lifestyle council of Sino-Russian Commission on friendship, peace and development, proposed with humor that we often have the way of saying “Antarctic fairy”, but “Arctic fairy” never exists since the Antarctic contains more imagination. Chinese culture focuses on the relationship between human and nature, human and human, human and heart simultaneously. We also need to ponder over these relationships while we drive to the other side.

 

Vice president of the Antarctic Forum, chairman of CRED Holding Co., Ltd Guojie Gui sighed that theoretically speaking, the best way to protect Antarctic is to stay away from it. But International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators has confirmed the number of tourists to Antarctic every year. We love Antarctic more and have more strong sense of responsibility. If we come to Antarctic, it will reflect our responsibility and concern in reality.

 

Before nature, human beings are just like a drop in the ocean. We should have a more accurate recognition towards the relationship between human and the nature, human and the world. The breadth towards Antarctic is also the depth towards the spiritual perception. Stated by Wei Hu, deputy director of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee and the leader of Shanghai Public Relations Association

 

Former chairman and party committee secretary of China Shipping (Group) Company Shaode Li proposed that we should use global common concept and language to reach a consensus.

 

Vice president of Antarctic Forum Naihua Huang stated that peace and harmony should be the goal of Antarctic Forum.

 

Antarctic is commonly regarded as a common, holy and pure land of human beingswith a huge value connotation of natural science and humanities. We can discuss the relationship between Antarctic and the living state of human, Antarctic and the science development of human, Antarctic exploration and the spiritual trait of human, Antarctic treaty and the socio-political theory of human, even the relationship between Antarctic and our present business community and daily life.

 

The second issue is whether it is necessary to form a document to declare people’s consensus after the Antarctic Forum.Antarctic Forum has organized a high-end dialogue on “Wealth-Environment-Future” and published onSanya Forum in December 2016. The consensus considers that human beings are moving towards an unprecedented era in history——an era of civilizing globalization. It will have a series of profound and long-term change on global political ecology, authority structure, business mode and lifestyle and also have a great impact on human survival and living environment and environmental protection rules. During the process, we should further use an integral and balanced way of thinking to understand and implement six principles of human’s ecological right: common principle, integral principle, proactive principle, reciprocity principle, educational principle and research principle. All agreed that these principles have macro-vision and foresight, so Antarctic Forum should be based on them and gather elites’ wisdom to further propose , which has a more leading value.

 

Antarctic Forum is focusing onhuman civilization and the global environment, improving balanced development as well as achieving common value.Attracted by the Antarctic Forum, the elite group is a small-sized group of followers, researchers, advocators, thinkers and practitioners of the community of common destiny for all mankind. The research and implement of how to integrate the small-sized community of common destiny for all mankind into a huge one, which is advocated by the nation, will become a profound and long-term theme behind the Antarctic Forum.

 

An Antarctic member who has been to Antarctic before recalled with emotion that while going through the Drake Passage, he stood at the bow and experienced the cold nights of South Atlantic. At that time, imagine if a person’s thought and soul could rise and hover above the night sky. When he overlooked, he would see polar region and deep sea, long nights, waves surging, storm raging, hulls falling, floating like leaves. But in such a small cabin, tiny lives are striving to discuss and care about the history, rules and destiny of the universe and nature. As a French famous mathematician Pascal said that everyone is just like a reed, the most fragile one in the nature. But it’s a reed that can think and is nobler than anything else that may cause him to die. While driving to the polar and facing the primitive, wild and vast nature that gradually emerges, on one hand it shows the insignificance of human beings, on the other hand it shows how great human beings are.

 

We come to the world, we are able to experience and think independentlyand constantly stand higher to introspect the meaning of our existence. That is the value.

 

Antarctic provides such a value and meaning platform for us.