往古者，所以知今也。巴中，物华天宝、资源富集，自古以来，承东启西、南北交汇。如今之巴中，立足后发赶超、振兴发展，持续深化对外开放，强化对外交流互动，不断扩大“朋友圈”，不仅织密了友谊的纽带，而且架起了开放合作的桥梁。一件件物品、一幅幅图片、一幕幕场景，展示了改革开放尤其是党的十八大以来，巴中对外交流合作取得的丰硕成果，见证了巴中勇立潮头谋跨越、开放发展谱新篇的铿锵步伐。

Knowing history helps understand what is happening today. Bazhong is God blessed for its prosperity with abundant natural resources. Located at the intersection of north and south, Bazhong has been standing as a bridge between the east and the west since ancient times. Nowadays, Bazhong is committed to revitalizing its development with a catching-up growth based on the current reality. Bazhong continues to expand opening up, strengthen exchanges and interactions with the outside world and constantly enlarge its circle of friends, which not only weaves the bonds of friendship all over the world, but also builds a bridge for openness and cooperation.The items, pictures and scenes on display, have showed the fruitful results of Bazhong's foreign exchanges and cooperation since China’s reform and opening up in 1978 and especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, witnessing Bazhong’s sonorus steps of catching up with the advanced in a new round of development and writing a new chapter through opening up and development.