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Shenzhen began to implement the strategy of "building a culture-based city" to make it a city of high-quality culture in 2004. The culture industry has been booming since then, grossing a total added value of 16.339 billion yuan, accounting for 4.77 percent of the city's total GDP and rising 20.76 percent from the year earlier period.
Culture and Arts
Cultural undertakings never lost their momentums. The city currently boasts 10 artist associations and 19 professional artistic organizations, with more than 3,000 cultural and literary professionals. A batch of cultural festival brands have been established, including Shenzhen Grand Theater Arts Festival, the international biannual exhibition of Chinese wash paintings, the international biannual piano contest as well as the season of domestic and overseas select performances. The Grand Theater arts festival had been held 13 times and has become a grand and elegant arts event. Regular municipal cultural events include the biannual Shenzhen Golden Autumn Community Cultural and Arts Festival, the children's arts festival and the annual reading month.
In 2004, the city's cultural sector obtained 580 prizes above provincial levels, including 52 international prizes and 227 national ones. The Fifth Reading Month attracted more than 5 million people. The city's cultural circle gave 283 internal performances in the year and 316 performances were staged to the public. Cultural centers at all levels held 571 exhibitions and organized 2,343 mass cultural activities.
ICIF (International Cultural Industry Fair)
ICIF is China's only State-level cultural industry fair. The first fair opened on November 18, 2004 and last five days. More than 102 enterprises from 50-plus countries and regions attended the fair, which was reported by 161 overseas media with 1,053 journalists. The fair attracted 500,000 visitors from all over the world and achieved the goal of building a platform for presenting, trading and exchanging information on cultural products.
'Plaza Culture'
In July 1986, a makeshift stage made of bricks and cement was set up in the Children's Activity Center on Hongli Road for a novel show, in which admission was free for audience while performers had to pay 0.5 yuan. It is a talent show where any audience member can give a performance on stage. In the past years, more than 20,000 shows and 6,200 activities had been given on the stage.
There were performances almost everyday on the city's about 200 squares.
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