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From 16 to 19 November 2019, the International Confucian Association held its Sixth Congress in Beijing together with an international conference marking the 2570th anniversary of Confucius's birth, hosted by the Association with UNESCO and the China Confucius Foundation and co-hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association and the Guiyang Confucius Academy, under the theme Confucianism and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind. About eight hundred guests attended the opening ceremony and roughly four hundred scholars specializing in Confucianism took part in its academic sessions. Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan addressed the opening ceremony on 16 November on behalf of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government, extending congratulations to the conference and describing Confucianism as a resource the Association could use to build understanding between civilizations.
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How China's Vice President Addressed the International Confucian Association's Sixth Congress in Beijing
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From 16 to 19 November 2019, the International Confucian Association held its Sixth Congress in Beijing together with an international conference marking the 2570th anniversary of Confucius's birth. The Association hosted the gathering with UNESCO and the China Confucius Foundation, co-hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association and the Guiyang Confucius Academy, under the theme Confucianism and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind.
About eight hundred guests attended the opening ceremony, and roughly four hundred scholars specializing in Confucianism took part in the congress's academic sessions.
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan addressed the opening ceremony on 16 November on behalf of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government, extending congratulations to the conference and describing Confucianism as a resource the Association could use to build understanding between civilizations.
What the Beijing congress changed for the International Confucian Association's own standing was pairing its Sixth Congress with a state level address, delivered by the country's vice president rather than a lower ranking official, at a gathering that also marked a named anniversary of Confucius's birth and drew UNESCO and two further co-hosting bodies into the same four days, before an audience of roughly eight hundred at the opening and about four hundred specialist scholars across the sessions that followed it.
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This source names Beijing directly: "Association held its Sixth Congress in Beijing together with an international conference marking the 2570th anniversary of Confucius's birth, hosted by the Association with UNESCO and the China..."
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Closes an 11 year gap since 2015's China's Confucian Revival Forms A National Church, the most recent event already on Confucianism's map, with a sitting Chinese Vice President publicly addressing an international Confucian congress in Beijing.
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