Modern Culture
Shenzhen has developed a batch of cultural industries with obvious benefits, successful market operation, and comparative advantages, including the printing, press, broadcasting & television, entertainment, cultural tourism, advertising, and cultural product manufacturing industries. The development of Shenzhen's cultural industries will be centered on innovative cultural brands, and will focus on eight advantageous industries, including the media, publishing, creative design, printing, audio & video, entertainment, tourism, and recreation. In order to propel the development of cultural industries, every May the Ministry of Culture and other relevant departments co-sponsor the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair (ICIF) in Shenzhen, adopting a socialized, internationalized and market-oriented operating mode to forge the three platforms (exhibition, trade and information) of cultural industries. In light of features of cultural resources and requirements of building an internationalized city, Shenzhen also holds cultural festivals such as "Shenzhen Reading Month", "Shenzhen Caring Action Month" and "Shenzhen Garden & Flower Exhibition", as well as a series of new, influential cultural festivals.
Shenzhen's cultural industries focus on creating cultural brands and increasing new growth points so as to improve technological contents of cultural industries and cultural contents of traditional industries, and to promote a leap-forward development of cultural industries. The highlights are media, animation, publishing, creative printing, audio & video, and tourism & culture industries. In 2005, Shenzhen issued a series of policies to support the development of cultural industries, including the Interim Measures of Shenzhen Municipality for the Management of Designated Funds for the Development of Cultural Industries, Several Economic Policies on Promoting the Development of Cultural Industries, Implementing Opinions on the Construction of Cultural Industrial Bases, Several Opinions on Supporting the Development of the Animation & Gaming Industry. In accordance with the Implementing Opinions on the Construction of Cultural Industrial Bases of Shenzhen Municipality, Shenzhen will construct three types of cultural industrial bases. The first type is the "corporate example base", that is to say, cultural industrial bases and professional bases (animation & gaming and creative design) relying on existing large-sized cultural enterprises (groups) or institutions; the second type is the "incubator base" with both the incubator function and physical space for cultural enterprise cluster, including the "creative industrial parks", "cultural industrial parks", "cultural product exhibition & trade centers", etc; the third type is the "teaching and training base" with certain scale and dedicated to industrial training, talent training, and industrial research of cultural industries.