Plaque unveiling for GPHL's key national cultural export project
2020-06-18 18:08:43 GPHL GPHL
June 13th marked the 15th China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. On that day, GPHL held a plaque unveiling ceremony for its key national cultural export project Shennong Caotang Museum.
Dozens of guests attended the plaque unveiling ceremony, including TCM masters Xuan Guowei and Zhou Daihan, Yangcheng Evening News president Liu Hailing, Deputy Director-General of the Health Commission of Guangdong Province Xu Qingfeng, GPHL’s Chairman Li Chuyuan and its General Manager Yang Jun.
The plaque unveiling ceremony for GPHL's key national cultural export project Shennong Caotang Museum.
The 2019-2020 Key National Cultural Export Projects were selected and acknowledged by the Ministry of Commerce, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the National Radio and Television Administration, along with help from provincial departments, third-party institutions and experts.
TCM masters Xuan Guowei
Yangcheng Evening News president Liu Hailing
Deputy Director-General of the Health Commission of Guangdong Province Xu Qingfeng
GPHL’s Chairman Li Chuyuan
GPHL’s General Manager Yang Jun
Established in 2006, Shennong Caotang Museum is the first semi-enclosed garden-style TCM museum to combine nature and history in order to comprehensively showcase TCM culture, Lingnan medicine, TCM health preservation, homology culture of medicine and food, plantation of medicinal herbs and TCM’s cultural significance. It was awarded a national 4A tourist attraction status from China’s National Tourism Administration on December19th, 2017, being Guangdong’s first national 4A TCM tourist attraction.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shennong Caotang Museum developed a sachet that uses Chinese herbs to help you detox. In early April, the sachets were included in GPHL’s 20 thousand medical kits for people undergoing quarantine as a way of expressing the company’s support for them in the fight against the outbreak.
On the afternoon of April 18th, African students at Sun Yat-sen University received a bag of epidemic supplies provided by GPHL, including the sachet. The sachets were also donated to Guangdong’s medical team in Hubei and their family members.
Over the past decade, the museum has been featured in a dozen documentaries and TCM promo videos presented by CCTV and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, including the ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road’ and ‘Chinese Medicine’.
Wanglaoji herbal tea museum moved into the Museum’s Lingnan Medicine Garden at the end of 2013. In December 2018, Wanglaoji opened its first overseas museum in Manhattan, New York. Last April, Wanglaoji held a launch ceremony for its herbal tea museum project in Tokyo, Japan.
Last May, GPHL and the University of Auckland entered into an agreement to set up GPHL’s first overseas scholarship entitled the “New Zealand Wang Lao Ji Auspiciousness Cultural Ambassador Scholarship”, supporting students from the University of Auckland by offering an internship at GPHL.
On May 20th, 2019, GPHL and the Confucius Institute in Auckland (“CI in Auckland”) announced a TCM promotion partnership to co-found the ‘Shennong Caotang TCM Cultural Centre’ and work together in training future TCM talent and sharing educational resources. A TCM Exhibition was also opened in the CI in Auckland on the same day, showcasing a variety of TCM products and herbs.
The museum has welcomed millions of international visitors and hosting a series of TCM themed activities, attendees including guests from the 2nd Investing in Africa Forum, the 2017 Fortune Global Forum, and the World Route Development Forum.
Author: Monica
Editors: Jerry, Olivia, & Simon