[Photo by Lu Xu/China Culture Daily]

The 7th China-Japan-South Korea Ministerial Conference on Culture was held in Qingdao, China, on Dec 20. China's Minister of Culture Luo Shugang, South Korea's Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Kim Jong-deok and Japan's State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hiroyuki Yoshiie, attended the meeting and made speeches.

Together, the three sides reviewed the development of cultural exchanges among China, Japan and South Korea in the recent years, and exchanged their views on further deepening pragmatic cultural cooperation.

The 2015-2017 Qingdao Action Plan was adopted at the conference, which has blueprinted the important cultural cooperative fields and programs among the three nations for the following three years.

Also, the 2016 'Culture City of East Asia' was declared at the meeting, with China's Ningbo, South Korea's Jeju, and Japan's Nara awarded with the title.

Bilateral meetings between China and South Korea, China and Japan as well as Japan and South Korea were held.

The China-Japan-South Korea Ministerial Conference on Culture is an important consultation mechanism between the governments in China- Japan- South Korea cultural cooperation. The first conference was launched in 2007.