Brief Introduction of Silk Road Magazine

Competent unit: Northwest Normal University

Organizer: Gansu Silk Road Association Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau Northwest Normal University Gansu Tourism Association

Domestic serial number: cn62-1115/k.

International serial number: ISSN1005-3115.

Silk Road is a comprehensive cultural monthly magazine, which was founded in September during the first China Silk Road Festival, 1992, and is publicly distributed at home and abroad.

The magazine aims to promote the excellent culture of the Silk Road and show the elegance of the western development. Illustrated with pictures and texts, both refined and popular. 200 1 was selected as the national excellent periodical-China periodical workshop. In order to adapt to the western development and China's entry into WTO, the English version of Silk Road is being prepared.

Silk Road magazine 1992 was founded in Jincheng, Lanzhou, an important city of the Silk Road, during the first China Silk Road Festival in September. It has been publicly issued at home and abroad since 1993.

"Silk Road" is the full-text periodical of China Journal Full-text Database (CJFD), the statistical source periodical of China Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database (CAJCED), and the periodical of China Newspaper Subscription Guide Information Database.

Silk Road is jointly sponsored by Gansu Silk Road Association, Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, Gansu Provincial Tourism Bureau and Northwest Normal University, with Professor Ji Chengjia as editor-in-chief and president. At the beginning, it was bimonthly, with the purpose of "promoting the excellent culture of the Silk Road", which was both knowledgeable, academic, realistic and interesting. It focuses on the magnificent mountains and rivers and the long history and culture in the west of China, striving to pave the way between history and reality, China and the world, experts and the masses, culture and economy. In order to adapt to the situation of western development, promote the cultural construction in the western region, and meet the needs of ordinary readers, since 2000, the Silk Road has increased the weight of tourism, further highlighted the natural landscape and human landscape in the western region, strengthened the western customs and multi-ethnic colors, and strived to be elegant, fresh and lively, winning wide acclaim from readers and society. 200 1, changed to monthly. Its purpose is to "carry forward the excellent culture of the Silk Road" and supplement the connotation of "serving modern tourism in western China". From the issue of 2006 10, it was changed to full-color printing.

The Silk Road, founded more than ten years ago, keeps pace with the times and keeps innovating. Now it has developed into an exquisite large-scale tourism culture monthly, with 80 pages, 16K internationally accepted, full-color printing, illustrated pictures and texts, and elegant and popular appreciation. With the style of "pursuing the unity of high taste and readability", it has won the recognition of readers, and its distribution scope covers all provinces and regions in China, overseas Chinese economic and cultural groups and China research institutions in western countries.

With the approval of higher authorities, the Silk Road has been changed to bimonthly since 2009. The first half of the month is located in the tourism culture of the Silk Road; In the second half of the month, we will focus on history and culture, and focus on publishing academic manuscripts.

As the most attractive cultural resource in eastern civilization, the Silk Road has a long-standing reputation. "Silk Road" itself is a cultural brand, which contains rich historical connotation and colorful realistic content. Therefore, as a monthly magazine of tourism culture, Silk Road will have inexhaustible resource advantages in content, and its attraction and influence on readers at home and abroad will be infinite. This is the only publication named after the Silk Road in China, and its position in Gansu, Northwest China and even the whole country is irreplaceable. The goal of Silk Road is to become readers' most loyal friends and close partners, the key to their understanding of the glorious history of the ancient Silk Road, the window to the glorious reality of the modern new Silk Road, the guide to visit the strange landscape in western China and observe the customs and customs in western China.