By Ersatz Culture: [Via SF Light Year’s Weibo post, which is where the images accompanying this item are sourced from, although some in turn seem to have originated at the dyy822izv0vq Douyin account]

On March 2, the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum issued a strongly worded statement on Weixin/WeChat regarding the proposed Panda Study Trip to the Glasgow Worldcon – previously covered on File 770 on February 20 — stating that they have no involvement with this project.

A machine translation, via Google Translate with minor manual cleanups of the text, follows; thanks to yjtc for help with understanding some of the more official/legalese language:

Chengdu Science Fiction Museum

Formal Official Statement

Recently, rumors have appeared on the Internet about Chengdu Science Fiction Museum cooperating with a travel agency to organize overseas science fiction study activities, arousing public attention. Chengdu Science Fiction Museum attaches great importance to this, and makes the following official statement:

Chengdu Science Fiction Museum has never authorized or entrusted any organization to carry out overseas science fiction study activities, nor has it participated in related activities in any form.  We would like to appeal to the public not to believe false rumors appearing on the Internet.  The museum firmly opposes any untrue remarks that damage the reputation of Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, and reserves the right to pursue legal liability from the relevant persons.

Thank you for your attention and support. Please work together to maintain the health of the online environment, and to promote the exchange and development of science fiction culture.

Hereby stated [for clarification].

Chengdu Science Fiction Museum

March 1, 2024

This is the first time I’ve seen any online posts directly from the museum; it doesn’t seem to have a website or Weibo account. (I don’t have access to the core WeChat/Weixin functionality; quite possibly they have been active on there before now.)