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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
MACAO, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Kazakh composer Baldyrgan Baikadamova has donated a family collection related to renowned Chinese musician Xian Xinghai to the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).
The donation ceremony took place on Wednesday at the Xian Xinghai Memorial Complex.
Xian Xinghai is known as a folk musician. His works, including the cantata "Huanghe", "Guerrilla Song", "Go Behind Enemy Lines", inspired the Chinese people to heroically fight against the Japanese aggressors.
He was born in June 1905 in Macao. In May 1940, Xian Xinghai went to the Soviet Union to work on the documentary film “Yan’an and the Eighth Army”. A year later, the Great Patriotic War began, and the film’s production was suspended. The composer was unable to return to his homeland and reached the city of Almaty at the end of 1942. Bakhytzhan Baikadamov, whom he had never met before, extended a helping hand to him. The story of Xian Xinghai and Bakhytzhan Baikadamov serves as a vivid example of the friendship between the peoples of China and Kazakhstan.
B. Baikadamova, daughter of Bakhytzhan Baikadamova, donated documents, musical scores and photographs of Xian Xinghai to the Macao SAR.
As Acting Director of the Macao SAR Department of Culture Cai Jianlong said at the donation ceremony, this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 120th anniversary of Xian Xinghai's birth.
The donated precious relics, which testify to the deep friendship between Xian Xinghai and the Baikadamov family, will enrich the collection of the Xian Xinghai Memorial Complex and become shining examples for patriotic education in the Macao SAR, he added.
After the ceremony, B. Baikadamova shared stories related to the Chinese composer during his stay in Kazakhstan.
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