On March 18th, the signing ceremony for strategic cooperation between the Palace Museum and DingTalk (China) Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "DingTalk") took place at the Jingshengzhai in Jianfu Palace Garden of the Palace Museum. The event was presided over by Luo Xianliang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Palace Museum. Zhu Hongwen, Vice President of the Palace Museum, and Yang Meng, Global Business President of DingTalk, respectively represented the two parties in signing the cooperation agreement. Wang Xudong, member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Director of the Palace Museum, and Ye Jun, President of DingTalk, along with other leaders, attended the event and witnessed the signing.
The strategic cooperation between the Palace Museum and DingTalk started in 2022. Over the past two years, both sides have worked closely together, combining the Palace Museum's excellent experience in the cultural and museum industry with DingTalk's advanced digital capabilities in office collaboration. Together, they have created a specialized digital office platform for the Palace Museum, accelerating the development of "Digital Palace" and exploring innovative digital management models in the cultural and museum industry.
In this latest collaboration, the Palace Museum and DingTalk will once again join forces, leveraging their respective resource advantages to further deepen cooperation in administrative office efficiency, digitalization of business management, AI capability building, youth education, and other fields. By utilizing DingTalk's capabilities such as its platform for building custom applications, integrated hardware and software for smart meetings, and knowledge base, they aim to optimize approval processes rapidly. Leveraging AI capabilities, they will jointly explore the construction of AI models and application scenarios in the cultural and museum industry. Additionally, by combining the Palace Museum's years of accumulated youth education content with DingTalk's extensive user base among young people, they will collaborate precisely on content and channels, jointly exploring the forefront of cultural and technological integration and innovation.
Mr. Lou Wei, Executive Vice President of the Palace Museum, stated that DingTalk is a leader in the field of intelligent mobile office platforms. Over the past two years of cooperation with DingTalk, the results of the Palace Museum's systematized mobile office construction have gradually emerged, significantly improving administrative office efficiency. In future cooperation, he hopes that both sides can fully leverage their respective resource advantages and continuously explore the innovative domains of cultural and technological integration. The Palace Museum looks forward to joining hands with more partners dedicated to the cultural and museum industry to promote the high-quality development of the museum cause.
Mr. Ye Jun, President of DingTalk, remarked that the cultural and museum industry safeguards the roots of historical civilization, with museums being important places for the protection and inheritance of human civilization. As an intelligent mobile office platform, DingTalk has a solid user base and a wide range of ecological cases covering various industries. In the era of intelligence, DingTalk hopes to effectively leverage its strengths for the cultural and museum cause, disseminating and passing on digital management experience to partners deeply rooted in the cultural and museum industry, thereby helping more industry partners make digital leaps.
Both parties look forward to using this cooperation to promote the deep integration of the cultural and museum industry with the field of technology, facilitating innovative development in frontier areas such as AI for both cultural and technological industries. They aim to inject powerful technological drive into cultural inheritance and innovation, jointly opening up a new chapter in the integration of culture and technology development.
