Vice-chairman of the standing committee of China’s National People’s Congress Wang Chen meets former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi on the sidelines of the Taihu World Cultural Forum, Oct 17, 2018. （Photo/China Daily）
High-level symposiums on traditional Chinese medicine were held in 2012 and 2014.
The forum also has gone beyond exchanges of thought. In 2017, a center for foreign leaders to experience traditional Chinese medicine opened in Beijing. In May, the forum announced it would work with the Palace Museum in Beijing to launch a "cultural parlor of Chinese civilization".
Some areas in the museum also are to be used for lectures on Chinese philosophies, stage performances of traditional Chinese fine arts and displays of cultural creativity products.
