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The cultural industry has grown quickly in Shenzhen, becoming the fourth pillar of the city, after the high-tech, finance, and logistics industries.
Since 2003, when Shenzhen took the lead in China for establishing strategies for developing a "culture-based city," the local cultural and creative industr ies have achieved robust growth, with an annual growth rate of more than 20%. The cultural and creative industries yielded an added value of more than 135.7 billion yuan in 2013, among the highest in the country. From 2004 to 2013, the added value produced by the cultural and creative industries accounted for 4.6% to 9.3% of the city's GDP. The sector has become an important engine for rapid and healthy economic development.
INDUSTRIAL BASES
With 34 cultural and creative industrial parks and 20 cultural and creative industrial bases, Shenzhen has formed a clustered cultural and creative industry. There are 12 State-level model bases for the cultural industry, covering areas including creative design, cultural software, animation and games, new media, cultural information services, intangible cultural heritage, high-end arts and crafts, digital publishing, cultural tourism, high-end printing, and industrial education and training.
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SECTORS WITH A COMPETITIVE EDGE
Shenzhen is where China's modern graphic design industry was born. Local industrial design and indoor design take a large percentage of the national market. Animation and gaming industries, cultural software services, Internet information services, digital TV and digital audio industries have gained momentum in growth. Shenzhen is home to China's largest high-end printing industry, taking 60% of the national market.
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CITY OF DESIGN
Shenzhen was accepted as a member of the Creative Cities Network by UNESCO on Nov. 19, 2008, and named a UNESCO City of Design, becoming the first Chinese city to win the honor. It was the sixth city in the world to earn the title.
ICIF
Cosponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Government, Shenzhen Municipal Government and State institutions, the annual China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) is certified by the UFI. The only State-level cultural expo in China, it is held in Shenzhen each May.
CULTURE ASSETS AND EQUITY EXCHANGE
Shenzhen is one of the earliest cities to have established (in 2009) a Culture Assets and Equity Exchange. The Chinese Cultural Industry Investment Fund has Shenzhen as its second-largest shareholder. Shenzhen has become one of the most important centers for the exchange of culture assets and equity, as well as investment and financing services in China.
INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL TRADE BASE
In December 2013, Shenzhen Creative Information Hub built the national International Cultural Trade Base and made it the third base that was granted by the Ministry of Culture after Beijing and Shanghai and the first of its kind in South China. The base will utilize the State preferential policies, international trade channels and international communication platforms to create a cultural trade service chain a high integrated with cultural and creative industries. It aims to build an innovative international cultural trade pilot area with unique leading power and resource accumulation capacity, and promote excellent Chinese cultural products and cultural services.
DAFEN OIL PAINTING VILLAGE
Located in Buji Subdistrict, Longgang District, the 4-square-kilometer village is the world's largest mass producer of oil paintings, essentially an art factory. Originally conceived by Hong Kong businessman Huang Jiang, who began production with a dozen artists in 1989, the village has grown in leaps and bounds over the past 20 years. About 15,000 artists and craftsmen work in more than 40 factories and 800 studios and workshops.
GUANLAN PRINTMAKING BASE
Located in Bao'an District, the base perfectly combines modern printmaking with traditional Hakka buildings. It has become a State-level model base with a sound environment and good economic returns.
EMERGING INDUSTRIES OF STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
Emerging industries of strategic importance including biology, Internet development, new energy, new material, cultural and creative industries and new-generation information technology are becoming the new engines for Shenzhen's development.
INDUSTRIAL BASES
Shenzhen has placed importance on the development of biology, Internet, new energy, new material, cultural and creative industries, and new-generation information technology industries. Construction of 12 industrial bases and 11 cluster areas for emerging industries of strategic importance is under way.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
From 2009 to 2015, Shenzhen will provide more than 18 billion yuan to support the development of six emerging industries, whose total industrial scale is expected to exceed 2 trillion yuan.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
The industrial scale of the six major emerging industries in Shenzhen reached 1.63 trillion yuan in 2013, up 20.5% from the previous year, becoming the city's new economic growth point. The output value of the emerging industries accounted for 34.5% of the city's GDP in 2013. The six industries contributed 50% of the city's total economic increase.
Biology The scale of biology reached 105.5 billion yuan in 2013, up 15.9% from the previous year, ranking among the top cities in China, while the industrial added value amounted to 22.8 billion yuan. There are 70 biological enterprises in Shenzhen, each with a yearly sales revenue of more than 100 million yuan. Representative local enterprises include BGI, Hepalink and Mindray. Major industry parks include a national biological industry base in Pingshan New Area and an innovative, demonstrative area of modern agriculture and biological breeding.
Internet In 2013, the scale of Internet reached 120 billion yuan, up 49.1% from the previous year. In recent years, Shenzhen has witnessed the fast growth of the e-commerce industry and the construction of the first State-level e-commerce model city goes smoothly. There are six industrial cluster areas in Shenzhen- Liantang Internet Industry Park, Shekou Network Valley, and Funtian International E-commerce Industry Park, and two more cluster areas are under construction. Representative enterprises include Tencent, one of China's largest providers of Internet, mobile and telecom services, and Easou search engine.
New Energy The size of Shenzhen's new energy industry leads domestic large and medium-sized cities. Nuclear power, solar energy, biomass and new-energy vehicles are the driving forces of the industry's development. The industrial added value reached 33.56 billion yuan in 2013, up 14.2% from the previous year. Representative enterprises include BYD and China General Nuclear Power Group.
New Material Shenzhen's new material industry covers a broad range of fields. The industry's scale reached 98.5 billion yuan in 2013. Major industry parks include Bao'an Metameterial Industrial Base and Material Cluster Area and Pingshan Power Battery Material Industry Cluster Area. Representative enterprises include Shenzhen Woer Heat-Shrinkable Material Co.
Cultural and Creative Industries The added value of Shenzhen's cultural and creative industries reached 135.7 billion yuan in 2013, up 25% from the previous year. According to the Development Plan of Shenzhen Cultural and Creative industries, the annual growth rate of the industries will reach 25% from 2011 to 2015. The added value of the industries will amount to 220 billion yuan in 2015.
New-generation Information Technology The scale of the new-generation information technology industry reached 812.3 billion yuan in 2013, up 15.7% from the previous year. Representative enterprises include Huawei and ZTE. The main industry parks include Shenzhen Bay Technology and Ecology City, Huawei Science and Technology Park New-generation Telecommunication Industry Base, and Shenzhen Software Industry Base.
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