In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the opening ceremony of the 11th Congress of the China Federation of Literary Societies and the 10th Congress of the China Federation of Writers, and to implement the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Literary and Artistic Criticism in a New Era of the Central Propaganda Department and other five departments, the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Cooperation on Literary and Art Criticism between China Literature and Art Association Critics and Lanzhou University was held in Lanzhou University On March 1. Xu Yuechun, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Literature and Art Association Critics and director of the Center for Literature and Art Criticism of the China Federation of Literary and Art Critics; Du Bu, director of the office of the Center for Literary and Art Criticism of the China Federation of Literary and Art Criticism; Zhang Liguo, deputy director of the Net Information Division of the Center for Literary and Art Criticism of the China Federation of Literary and Art Criticism; Sha Yongzhong, vice president of Lanzhou University; Wang Zhengmao, member and vice-chairman of Gansu Provincial Literature Federation; Ma Yongqiang, chairman of Gansu Provincial Critics Association, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the Supervisory Board of Readers' Publishing Group Co;Yu Tao, full-time Vice Chairman of the Gansu Provincial Critics Association; Wang Jixiang, Secretary General of the Gansu Provincial Critics Association; Zhang Jinyao, Director of the Chinese Society of Literary Critics and Vice President of Lanzhou University of Arts and Sciences, relevant leaders from the Department of Social Sciences, School of Literature, and Literary Criticism Center of Lanzhou University, and representatives of teachers and students attended the signing ceremony.The ceremony was presided over by Li Lifang, dean of the School of Chinese Languages and Literatures at Lanzhou University.

Xu Yuechun and Sha Yongzhong signed the cooperation memorandum on behalf of both parties.

Sha Yongzhong expressed his heartfelt thanks to the China Literature and Art Critics Association for its support and assistance to Lanzhou University, and looked forward to both sides working together to promote Lanzhou University's work of literary and art criticism in the theoretical research of literary and art criticism, the practice of literary and art criticism, the construction of literary and art criticism positions, and the cultivation of young literary and art criticism talents to bear fruit, and jointly push forward the healthy and prosperous development of socialist literature and art.He said that the School of Chinese Literatures and Languages of Lanzhou University will conscientiously implement the important exposition of General Secretary Xi Jinping on literary and art criticism, continue to give full play to the advantages of the discipline, strengthen the construction of Marxist literary and art theories and commentaries, and give full play to the important roles of literary and art commentaries in the areas of value guidance, spiritual guidance and aesthetic enlightenment, and make more contributions to the construction of a new voice for the discourse system of Chinese literary and art criticism and a new model for the development of the cause of prosperous Chinese literary and art criticism. We will strive to become a “new engine” to promote the development of literature and art criticism in western China, and make more contributions to the construction of a “new voice” for the discourse system of China's literature and art criticism, and a “new model” for the development of China's literature and art criticism.

Xu Yuechun said, Lanzhou University literary review has a long academic tradition and has cultivated a number of excellent literary review talents. It has made fruitful achievements in literary review of western China, and successfully created brand activities of literary review such as “Western China Writers’ Forum of the New Century” and so on, and has made achievements in the Silk Road art and aesthetic culture, research and review of national literature and art and theoretical criticism of children’s literature, Gansu opera art research and other aspects have achieved milestones.The cooperation between the China Association of Literary and Art Critics and Lanzhou University in literary and art criticism is of positive significance in strengthening the construction of literary and art criticism in the western region of China, boosting the prosperity of the western literary and art undertakings, and further blossoming the light of western literature and art in the whole country. Xu Yuechun put forward suggestions for further cooperation and exchanges in literary criticism and for building a strong literary criticism position in Lanzhou University.

Wang Zhengmao, member of the party group and vice chairman of Gansu Literature Federation, said in his speech that the official signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation on Literary and Art Criticism between Lanzhou University and China Association of Literary and Art Critics is a concrete measure to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on strengthening the work of literary and art critics and promoting the prosperity of the arts and culture and it is also a great event for Gansu's literary and art circles.

Du Bu, director of the office of the Literary and Art Criticism Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Critics, read out the memorandum of cooperation on literary and art criticism. According to the memorandum, the cooperative construction between China Association of Literary and Art Critics and Lanzhou University includes the construction of literary and art critique positions, research on literary and art theories and critiques, literary and art critique seminars, and cultivation of literary and art critique talents.