The house of Hungarian culture in Beijing. Hungarians are the first to arrive to the Galaxy Soho.
At least from Central Europe, but only the 10th of the 27 EU member having a cultural institute in China. The Hungarian cultural institute will be opened Wednesday, the 13th November 2013 in an 18 levels high futuristic hump galaxy laying on 330 000 sqm that itself has been inaugurated nearly exactly a year ago: the the Beijing Galaxy Soho, designed by the worldwide known Iraqi-British architect, Zaha Hadid.
Sohochina's galaxy is a home to the head offices of China Telecom, China Mobile, Sinopec, CNOOC, China Life Insurance, PICC, Bank of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice as well as a number of other core national companies and central government's ministries and institutions.According to the Hungarian PM's Office website notice of 27th June 2013 "among Central European countries Hungary will be the first to open a cultural institute in the capital" of China. The same notice announce: "Ambassador Xiao Qian pointed out that Hungarian-Chinese relations have developed constantly within each field of cooperation including the economy, trade, culture, research, science and investment, adding that Sándor Petőfi poems are already taught in Chinese primary schools and the Kodály Method is used in music education". China researcher and archeologist, Szonja Andrea Buslig will lead the institute.
Hungarian history is planned to be presented to the invitees of the inauguration through a fashion show called Gombold újra! Közép-Európa which is an outspeaking title in Hungarian - Re-Button it, Central Europe word by word translation - but simply translated as Central European Fashion Days.