ICIF IN SHENZHEN PROMOTES EXCHANGES, MUTUAL LEARNING AMONG CIVILISATIONS

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 (Bernama) -- The 19th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) kicked off recently in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, is expected to inject new impetus into the development of the country's cultural industry.

The five-day national-level fair, featuring mainly offline events, has attracted more than 3,500 government bodies, cultural organisations and enterprises, according to Shenzhen Municipal People's Government in a statement.

With over 100,000 kinds of exhibits from cultural and creative industries both at home and abroad, the number of exhibitors rising from over 700 in the first exhibition to 3,596 as of now.

In addition, the number of countries and regions for visit, exhibition, and purchase growing from over 10 to 108. The ICIF has been growing year after year in terms of exhibition scale, visitor count, internationalisation level and trading volume since its foundation in 2004.

It has become an important driver for the development of China's cultural sector, an important platform for Chinese culture to go global, and an important window for expanding cultural opening-up.

ICIF Director of the Office of the Organizing Committee, Zeng Xianglai said in addition to on-site matching between domestic and foreign exhibitors and buyers, the organisers also invited 20,000 overseas professional visitors from 108 countries and regions to participate online and offline.

Many overseas exhibitors stated that by participating in ICIF, they had not only met many customers from China and worldwide but also personally felt the co-prosperity of civilisations via exchanges and mutual learning.

Since its founding, the cultural fair has seen a continuous expansion in its exhibition scale, visitor number and degree of internationalisation, becoming an important platform to promote the development and opening up of the Chinese cultural industries.

-- BERNAMA