The importance of cultural exchanges and people-to-people connections was highlighted at a seminar co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Paris-based Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in the French capital on Friday.

More than 100 experts and scholars from major think tanks, universities and research institutes of China and France attended the seminar titled "Exchanges and Mutual Learning between Chinese and French civilizations: Review and Outlook".

Topics including the practice and testimony of civilizational exchanges, retrospections and reflection on mutual learning between civilizations, as well as the role scientific and technological innovation will be playing in the future of human civilization, were discussed at the event.