A hotel employee in northwest China's Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, successfully sneaked away from danger after waking up to see a brown bear searching around the front desk for food.
A CCTV footage shows that at 3:30 on Aug 5, a brown bear opened the door of a hotel and searched around the front desk for food.
The disturbance woke up the man who was deeply asleep behind the front desk. Instead of being panic, the man sneaked away calmly from the unexpected visitor, even taking his cell phone from the desk.
According to expert, in unexpected encounter with a bear, people should keep calm and retreat quietly without making any sudden move like screaming or running.
Man sneaks away after waking up to see unexpected brown bear visitor
Indonesia and China are exploring new frontiers in cultural collaboration from museums and stage performances to digital platforms, media and arts, according to Indonesian Minister of Culture Fadli Zon.
"We have 76 years of diplomatic relation. So, I hope that in the near future we can accelerate or strengthen the cultural exchange, the cultural cooperation between our two countries, including the exchange of collection, museums and maybe the film production, co-production. And with the digital platforms that China is very advanced, we can also learn and maybe cooperate in that matter," Zon said at a TV interview during his visit to Beijing late in April.
The minister said artists should leverage innovation and digital platforms to explore new artistic forms.
"We can explore many things with the innovation, with the digital platforms. The contemporary arts, for example, combined with the ancient-rooted civilization that both we have. Like Indonesia, we have the cave painting, the cave art that is the oldest in the world. China also is a long-standing civilization, a living civilization since 5,000 years ago. We need to exchange more in order to have a new form of art and media art. But I think from the contemporary approach and the traditional approach we can find something new," he said.
Zon said both preservation and reinvention are crucial for cultural expression, especially in the digital world.
"We cannot separate between preserving and reinventing, because it's continuity. Preserving means that we need to actualize our intangible cultural heritage and reinventing it, because it's very important for our identity, but also for the expression, the cultural expression, especially in this digital world," he said.
Indonesian minister on cultural collaboration with China
