Vice secretary of city party committee, Wang Yongsheng, pointed out that currently, the competitions and development among the cities have turned out a new ten dency, including upgrading the city's inner quality, improving city's cultural meaning and strengthening city's core competitiveness. To foster the city's spirit of Qingdao, which is based upon the city's history, the current situation and its characteristics, is to meet the demand of the city's development. The city government has launched the Discussion on Qingdao's City Spirit around the city since last year. Both the experts and the local citizens actively participated in the activity. Experts and scholars made great efforts in the research on the city spirit. The forum this time will promote the great national spirit, including solidarity, peace loving, industry and self-supported, with patriotism as the core of the spirit. All the city districts have opened their own branch venues of the forum in order to promote the great impact of city spirit. (top86)