“To render OBOR successful China must increase its understanding of the political, economic and cultural environment of at least some, if not all, of the nations and regions along the way." Prof. Feng, Da-Hsuan pointed out at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 19 April.
The seminar was titled "Cultural Communication: Challenges and opportunities in the 21st Century", jointly organized by Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and Research Centre on One-Belt-One-Road, CityU.
Prof. Feng explained the ancient Silk Road was not artificially but organically created, "except Zhang Qian and Tang Xuan-Zang, there is little or no mention of any mention of Chinese businessmen utilizing the Silk Road to do business in the West." Therefore, the fundamental point about OBOR is cultural communication. Indeed, only through cultural communication can one establish a communication paradigm, "and only then, can one realize OBOR’s development strategy, push forth OBOR’s construction, and create projects in reality."
Prof Feng Da-Hsuan is the Director of Global Affairs and Special Advisor to Rector, University of Macau. Prof. Feng has accumulated more than three decades of experience working in the academia and corporate arenas in the United States and Taiwan. He was M. Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Physics at Drexel University, Director of the Division of Theoretical Physics of the United States National Science Foundation, Vice President for research and economic development at the University of Texas at Dallas, Vice President of the Fortune 500 Science Applications International Corporation, and Senior Vice President of Tsing Hua University and Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
