In recent years, Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting has made great efforts to tap traditional cultural resources, promote the study of Wu culture to keep pace with the times, and give play to the role of Wu culture in Suzhou's first basic modernization, and made some useful attempts, which have attracted the attention of all walks of life. At the beginning of 2000, the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting and other units jointly solicited research topics on Wu culture from the public, which received positive responses from all walks of life. After more than two years of careful preparation, Suzhou "Wu Culture and Modernization Seminar" was held as scheduled from August 6 to 8, 2002. More than 65,438+000 experts, scholars and professors from Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Suzhou University and the municipal government attended the seminar. Through the research of nearly forty topics, the understanding of Wu culture is integrated into the background of economic globalization and high-tech development, and the characteristics of Wu culture are grasped from historical, comparative and modern angles. From the perspective of world cultural heritage, this paper analyzes the essence of Wu culture from many aspects-the protection of Suzhou ancient city; Put forward some ideas on the development of Wu culture resources from the perspective of industrial development; From the perspective of people's spiritual cultivation and social context, we can understand the spiritual value of Wu culture in many ways, so as to give full play to the role of Wu culture in Suzhou's first basic modernization. This is an important theoretical preparation for Suzhou to strive to build its cultural strategic advantage in the process of facing the world, the future and modernization.
Since 2000, the cultural department has further strengthened the study of Wu culture and specially organized the compilation and publication of a number of cultural books and monographs. Among them, there are a series of books devoted to the study of Wu culture, such as Records of Su Ju, Suzhou Folk Instrumental Music Integration, Suzhou Culture Series (the first and second series), Gusu Ci, Suzhou burlesque Exquisite Plays, burlesque Materials, Suzhou Culture Towards the New Century and so on. , and also established a Wu culture website and a Wu culture forum; Wuxi holds Wu Culture Festival every year. Among them, The Chronicle of Su Ju won the first prize of outstanding achievements in the fifth philosophy and social sciences in Suzhou, the second prize of outstanding achievements in the sixth philosophy and social sciences in Jiangsu, the "Five Ones" project prize in Suzhou culture series and the "Five Ones" project prize in Suzhou national instrumental music integration. In July 2002, the book Wu Culture and Modernization Forum, inscribed by the world famous master I.M. Pei and prefaced by the famous writer Lu Zuoxu, was published by Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House. The 800,000-word book, in 16 format, brings together 39 latest achievements in the study of Wu culture in the process of modernization. The publication of this book marks that the study of Wu culture in Suzhou has reached a new level.