丝绸之路国际剧院联盟
2013年中国国家主席习近平在出访中亚和东南亚国家期间，提出共建“丝绸之路经济带”和“21世纪海上丝绸之路”（以下简称“一带一路”）的重大倡议，得到了国际社会的高度关注和广泛响应。为进一步增进丝绸之路沿线国家的文化艺术交流与合作，在文化和旅游部（原文化部）的支持和指导下，中国对外文化集团有限公司旗下中演演出院线发展有限责任公司（以下简称“中演院线”）于2016年10月倡议发起成立“丝绸之路国际剧院联盟”（以下简称“丝盟”），并以共商、共建、共享为原则，积极推进沿线国家文化的交流与合作，让古老的丝绸之路焕发崭新的生机与活力。截至2021年12月，“丝盟”已拥有来自44个国家以及2个国际组织在内的138家成员单位，其中国外成员单位81家，国内成员单位57家（含港澳地区3家），文化版图覆盖欧、美、亚、非、拉五大洲，目前已发展成为世界上大型多边演艺交流组织之一。
目前，“丝盟”已被文化和旅游部列为《文化部“一带一路”文化发展行动计划（2016—2020年）》的重点项目。习近平总书记在2018年8月份举办的中非合作论坛北京峰会开幕式讲话中重点推荐：“支持非洲国家加入丝绸之路国际剧院联盟”，引起了国内国际的多方关注。为提高艺术创作水平和国际影响力，“丝盟”于2018年3月邀请著名指挥家汤沐海担任“丝绸之路国际剧院联盟”交响乐团艺术总监，2019年10月、2020年5月和2020年11月先后聘任意大利热那亚卡洛费利切歌剧院艺术总监Giuseppe Acquaviva、中国著名艺术家张国立和瑞士著名指挥家夏尔·迪图瓦担任“丝绸之路国际剧院联盟”艺术顾问。同时，2020年11月底，“丝盟”成功邀请中国著名的作曲家、指挥家谭盾担任名誉艺术顾问。
未来，“丝盟”将助力中国对外文化集团有限公司及“中演院线”，积极推进优秀演出作品“走出去”，传播中国文化，讲好中国故事，并在成员单位间充分发挥“融合”作用，开展深层次、多样化、具有创新意义的文化交流合作项目,以开放的眼光和全球化的视野，联动国际上知名剧院、艺术团组、演出经纪机构、演出设备制造商、资本运营商等，逐步实现以市场为主体的运作方式，实现跨行业、跨地区的融合，打造国际上规模最大的文化产业体系和产业链，促进全球范围内文化艺术机构的融合、繁荣与发展。
Silk Road International League of Theatres
In 2013, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Central Asia and Southeast Asia, he raised the initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (hereinafter referred to as the Belt and Road), which has attracted close attention and received widespread response from all over the world. To further increase cultural and artistic exchanges and cooperation between countries along the Silk Road, with the support and under the guidance of China Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Ministry of Culture), CPAA Theatres Ltd, subsidiary of China Arts and Entertainments Group, proposed establishing the “Silk Road International League of Theaters” (SRILT) in October, 2016. All members in the league consent to the principle of “extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.” The league proactively engages in the cultural and artistic development in the countries along the Silk Road, which brings new vitality to this ancient road. By December 2021, 138 members from 44 countries and two international organizations have joined the league, among which 81 are overseas members and 57 are members from China (including 3 members from Hong Kong and Macau), covering the continents of Europe, America, Latin America, Asia and Africa. The “SRILT” now has become a large global platform for performing arts exchanges and cooperation.
Now, the SRILT has been listed as a key project by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in its “One Belt One Road Action Plan (2016-2020)”. President Xi Jinping recommended that “African Countries highly welcome to join the Silk Road International League of Theatres” at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in August 2018, which has attracted much attention at home and abroad. To improve the quality of artistic creation and international influence, the League invited Tang Muhai, a famous conductor, to be the artistic director of the SRILT Symphony Orchestra in March 2018. In October 2019, May 2020 and November 2020, Giuseppe Acquaviva, artistic director of Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Italy, Zhang Guoli, a famous Chinese artist, and Charles Dutoit, a renowned Swiss conductor, were appointed as artistic consultants of “Silk Road International League of Theatres” respectively. Besides, at the end of November 2020, SRILT successfully invited Tan Dun, a famous Chinese composer and conductor, as the honorary art consultant.
In the future, the “SRILT” will be developed to the biggest organization for theaters around the world under the effort of CAEG and CPAA. The league actively pushes China outstanding performances to “go out” in order to spread Chinese culture and tell China Story to the foreigners. It will also play the role as “integration,” launching many innovative cultural exchanges programs among the “SRILT” members in different level and depth. With an open and global perspective, Silk Road International League of Theaters will link international renowned theaters, performing troupe, performance agency, manufacturers for performance equipment and capital investor all together, gradually achieve market-oriented operation. In this way, a cross-industry and cross-border cultural integration has become reality, with the largest scale of cultural industry chain to promote the integration, prosperity and development of cultural and artistic institutions around the world.