“2012 Guangzhou Forum- New Urbanization Development Peak Forum”organized jointly by Counselor court of State Council , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of CPC(Communist Party of China) and Zhongshan University, was holding in Hilton Hotel Wanda Branch in Baiyun District of Guangzhou on 31^st August.  Qingliang Wan who is standing member in Guangdong Provincial Party committee and Secretary of Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Jianhua Chen who is mayor in Guangzhou, Weiguang Wang who is vice-president in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Weimin Wang who is Deputy Director in Counselor Court of State Council , as well as over 200 experts and scholars home and abroad were present at the meeting. Rector Zexian Yan in our university also attended the meeting and made a subject presentation.   

Principal Zexian Yan published "Cultural consciousness: inner drive of new urbanization development " theme speech. He stated that: in the process of  Guangzhou formulating and implementing new urbanization development strategy, there would be cultural consciousness and guide problems; the basic concepts for establishing Guangzhou cultural development strategy , should be hardness coupled with softness,  tools rationality combined with humanistic rationality, besides that, attention should not only be paid to the development of cultural industry, even more be paid to the  culture advancement of industries,  in that way,  cultural economic consciousness and economic cultural consciousness win-win situation will be done ; the fundamental strategies for Guangzhou new urbanization development implementation should be global vision, the national tactic,and cultural consciousness.

What’s more, President ZeXian Yan profoundly pointed out, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou appeared statements such as fake happiness in big cities, which were reflection of the city anxiety, Guangzhou at present suggests new urbanization development way due to the force of cultural consciousness ; Guangzhou cultivates the urban cultural personality and prominents Guangzhou lingnan culture tradition, incoming culture from central plain China , cultural interaction among Guangdong, Hongkong and Macau, and integration between Chinese and western culture.

In the period of forum,Wenyuan Niu who is the counselor in state council , group leader of sustainable development strategic group and chief scientist in Chinese academy of sciences, Weiming Du, who is an academician in American social science institute,  Harvard University honorary professor, president in higher humanistic research institute of Beijing university; Houkai Wei, deputy director of urban development and the environment institution belong to Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Yongnian Zheng, who is directing east Asia institute of National university of Singapore; Min Tang, who undertakes positions of State Council advisor and youcheng foundation's executive vice President; Jun Hu who was President of Jinan university and other well-known scholars successively made speeches.