At six in the morning, Mayor Lin stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. Outside the glass, the morning light was casting a golden rim over the newly completed Chengyi Square, where the giant Urban Culture DNA Map sculpture at the center hovered indistinctly in the thin mist. His phone suddenly vibrated; it was a message from the Japanese curator Sato: "Congratulations on the complete success of your city's cultural week! We hope to explore deeper levels of cooperation."
This message reminded Lin Yu of a scene from three months ago. At that time, he was speaking at a forum during the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, with cultural officials from over fifty cities around the world seated in the audience. As the event ended, a gentleman in a traditional kilt actively handed over a business card and said, "I am the artistic director of the Edinburgh International Arts Festival. Your Chengqi Project reminds me of our City Stories program."
"Regularization, it must be regularized." Lin Yu muttered to himself. He turned and walked toward the conference room, where the heads of the Culture Bureau, Foreign Affairs Office, Education Bureau, and other departments had already gathered. On the projection screen, the title "Normative Cultural Exchange Mechanism Construction" stood out sharply in the morning light.
Chapter 202