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Opening the door of free trade to help culture “put to sea”
Xiamen area builds a national cultural export base to boost the take-off of the city’s cultural industry
Xiamen DailyNews (Reporter Cui Hao, Correspondent Cai Qiang) Seizing the reforms and opening the door to free trade innovation, the trend of “go to sea” culture is vigorous. In recent days, at the Cross-Strait Cultural Fair, a completely open pavilion with the word “door” as its shape has caught the attention of many people.
Unlike the dazzling array of creative displays in the showroom, the content displayed here only interprets the word “door.” Taking advantage of the open cooperation advantages of the pilot free trade zone platform, a wealth of excellent film and television resources, books, digital content and other cultural products and services are browsing from here. This is the “national cultural export base” of the Xiamen Free Trade Zone.
In June 2018, the Xiamen Free Trade Zone received the “National Cultural Export Base” jointly by the Ministry of Commerce and other ministries and commissions. It was the only national cultural export base in Fujian Province and the National Free Trade Pilot Zone at the time. After more than two years of construction, the base has built a characteristic cultural industry platform, expanded the scale of cultural exports, and promoted the development of the city’s 100 billion yuan cultural industry chain, focusing in the top five industry fields of art, creative design, film and television performing arts, digital content and new media, and news publishing.
Among them, in terms of expanding the scale of cultural trade, the base has built 2 high-end art platforms, cultivated 13 key cultural export enterprises, built a book distribution center to Taiwan, built Haisi Art Center , Liyuan Future Movie World, etc. Industrial park. In terms of promoting cultural enterprises to “go abroad”, four consecutive China book touring exhibitions have been held, attracting more than 400 domestic and foreign publishers to participate, reaching 2,142 copyrighted book export intentions and continued to promote cultural products such as national films and television, games and comics. And the service “go out”.
Now, with the help of the golden “National Cultural Export Base” sign, the Xiamen Free Trade Zone is working with all parties to promote the high-quality development of the cultural industry. According to the data, there are nearly 2,000 cultural enterprises registered in the area with a registered capital of more than 11 billion yuan, and nearly half of the enterprises were established on the base after approval; which led the city to achieve 7.25 billion yuan in import and export of cultural products in 2019, an increase of 18.6%.
The show is continuous and exciting. Recently, with the help of the two big banquets of the China Golden Rooster Film Award and the Straits Cultural Exhibition, the industrial chain of the “National Cultural Export Base” in the Xiamen Free Trade Zone has also been enriched and continually expanded.
With the singing of the “Golden Rooster”, Xiamen Xiagu Zenxin Cultural Development Co., Ltd. invested by well-known director Zhang Jizhong, and the Hualu film and television cultural project built by a subsidiary of the central China Hualu Group have been successively established in the Xiamen Free Trade Zone; attracting financial “living water” Jointly initiated by the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Finance, the second phase of the China Cultural Industry Investment Fund with a target scale of 50 billion landed in Xiamen; China Film China Film and Television Equipment Financial Leasing (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. has continuously increased its investment The “financial +” advantage of the commercial zone will expand the “financial leasing” business of film and television equipment to fully serve the the improvement of China’s film industry.
Looking ahead, Xiamen Free Trade Zone focuses on relying on its advantages in systems innovation, insisting on characteristic leadership and innovative policy systems, focusing on the core area of marine silk and the characteristics of location on the west coast of the Strait, highlighting the characteristics of the “consolidated +” “financial +” base and strengthening foreign cultural cooperation, Innovate cultural financial services, build a cultural industry ecosystem and help culture go further .
