"China Tibetan Culture Forum (Kathmandu)" will be held on December 19-20 in Nepali capital Kathmandu, with an aim of introducing Tibetan culture to Nepal and the whole world as well as promoting the exchanges between China's Tibet and Nepal.

According to a press release issued on Sunday, with a topic of boosting the friendly exchanges between China and Nepal and promoting the preservation and development of Tibetan culture, the forum will invite representatives from different circles in Nepal for the opening ceremony, speech-delivering, academic exchanges and Tibet photo exhibition.

Many Tibetologists and celebrities from China and Nepal will deliver speeches on the forum, launched by China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture (CAPDTC) and Nepal Arniko.

As a nationwide non-profit public body granted as United Nations Consultative Status for Economic and Social Council, CAPDTC was founded on June 21, 2004 as a non-governmental organization consisting of volunteers both from home and abroad who love Tibetan culture and care for its preservation and development.

(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2007)