As part of a broader cooperation between the Dunhuang Research Academy, QQ Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the program will then invite well-known composers, experts and actors in the field to reproduce the traditional music professionally.

The establishment ceremony of the Northeast Asia International Art Education Alliance and the First Academic Exchange Conference, initiated by the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and guided by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education - with support from the Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of Liaoning Province and the Liaoning Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries - was grandly held from October 12 to 15.

The first batch of Alliance members includes Shenyang Conservatory of Music; Chugye University for the Arts of Korea; Herzen University Institute of Music, Theatre and Choreography of Russia; Hanyang University of Korea; Heisei College of Music of Japan; Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture; Sydney Conservatorium of Music; The University of Sydney (specially invited); and Conservatory of music of Shenyang Normal University, among others.

Over the past decade, Shenyang Conservatory of Music has actively fostered understanding and collaboration with populations and higher institutions in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative through a series of cultural performances and academic exchanges, reaping abundant results.

The establishment of the Northeast Asia International Arts Education Alliance signifies another major step by Shenyang Conservatory of Music in serving the regional economy, constructing an opening window towards Northeast Asia, fortifying cultural confidence, embracing openness and inclusiveness, upholding traditions and pursuing innovation, and proactively responding to the Belt and Road top-level cooperation initiative.

Zhao Hengxin, Party secretary of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, delivered a speech on behalf of the Alliance's founding units.

Keynote speeches on the future development and cooperative prospects of art education in Northeast Asia were delivered by a host of delegates, including Feng Zhilian, executive president of Shenyang Conservatory of Music in charge of administrative work; Yim Sang-hyok and Jeon Sung-hae , president and vice-president of Chugye University for the Arts of Korea; Kuznetcova Elena, president of Herzen University Institute of Music, Theatre and Choreography of Russia; Odsuren Dagmid, vice-president of Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture; Bassoon Prof, Magome Isamu of Heisei College of Music of Japan and Matthew Hindson, deputy dean at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney.

Chen Baozhan, the owner of a small company in the village, has sent two of his sons to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music to study saxophone playing and music theories.

The panel of teachers comprise outstanding graduates from major music schools both at home and abroad, including Birmingham Conservatory of Music, Trinity Conservatory of Music, Manhattan Conservatory of Music and Russian National Normal University.