On September 5, Vice Secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Suzhou municipal party Committee Secretary Shi Taifeng went to Suzhou to survey the conditions of cultural creative industry development. Shi Taifeng emphasized that the cultural industry is not only the soft power of one city but also the hard power to its economy. It's really important to take a full-range consideration of promoting the upgrade transformation, and then considers optimizing the related policy to support the development of cultural industry, in order to be the cultural enterprise with core competitiveness and to promote the leap-forward development of cultural industry in our city.
Afternoon, Shi Taifeng and his line came to ORI ANIMATION which is located in Ori Mansion, Suzhou Industrial Park, accompanied by Qian Feng who is the president of ORI ANIMATION. They inspected the animation experience center and animation manufacture center, in addition, Vice Secretary Shi gave the positive answers to Ori's achievements in eight years since they established, and also appreciated they improved their competitiveness and went global by independent innovation on cultural products.
ORI ANIMATION is an animation enterprise in Suzhou which first certificated by the government. Ori has completed 10 original animation TV production and distribution, co-produced with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, Britain, Jordan with accumulative attained about $26 million project cooperation fund.
Whereafter, Shi Taifeng held an on-site meeting in Ori's No.1 meeting room, listened to the conditions of cultural creative industry development work from Suzhou Administration of Culture, Radio, Film, TV, Press and Publication, and had a discussion with principals from six cultural enterprises, including ORI ANIMATION.
Whereafter, Shi Taifeng held an on-site meeting in Ori's No.1 meeting room, listened to the conditions of cultural creative industry development work from Suzhou Administration of Culture, Radio, Film, TV, Press and Publication, and had a discussion with principals from six cultural enterprises, including ORI ANIMATION.
Shi Taifeng pointed out, accelerates the development of cultural industry is an important part in the development and prosperity of culture and also the urgent request in speeding up the transformation and upgrading the economy. In recent years, cultural industry development in our city has made great progress, the development scale, the growth speed and the output value proportion of cultural industry is keeping increasing. Absolutely, people need to still stay conscious while they see these great achievements. Suzhou is famous for its ancient history, culture and the economic development. However, cultural development and economic development are out of proportion with its insufficient cultural development, industrial development and cultural development are not matching each other in strength. Cultural industry is not competent to play the leading role in helping economy to transform and upgrade.
Shi Taifeng emphasized on cultural industry should be motivated by creation, treat the content as the core and reply on the input of science technology and intelligence. Energy efficient, low pollution, low carbon, green and sustainability has great significance to the development and prosperity of culture and to the transformation of the pattern of economic development in Suzhou. Cultural industry should be seen as an important fulcrum in this tough battle between speeding up transfer mode and adjusting the structure, then concentrates to open a breach.
In order to accelerate the development of the creative cultural industry and enterprise in the whole city, Shi Taifeng pointed out to follow four requirements.
First is to be a great cultural enterprise with competitive core and firmly establish the idea that the content is the base. To cultural industry development, content is core competitiveness to determine their development and survive. Every cultural enterprise should fully dig into and integrate the rich variety of cultural resources in Suzhou, and then apply the abundant Wu Culture to the operating progress of creative cultural industry.
Secondly, He said to strengthen the talents and technology support and to be the independent innovative enterprise. It is reinforce cultivation and collection of cultural industry management talents, technical experts and creative art talents. He also mentioned to improve the capacity of independent innovations，enhances the expressional power, the attraction and appeal of cultural products.
Thirdly, cultural enterprises need to have comprehensive advantages through speeding up the industrial convergence. Industrial convergence is a significant feature of the cultural industry. Revitalize the old assets such as good ancient city wall and cartilage to create competitive cultural tourism projects and products. To promote the integration between cultural industry and information industry is very important right now.
The last point is to consummate the policy support and system innovation, in order to accelerate the development of cultural industry. Local party committees and governments also will create a loose environment actively and provide high quality service for the development of cultural enterprises, no matter it a state-owned enterprise, foreign enterprise or private companies. Furthermore, he also mentioned all kinds of special funds and investments need to be full play. It is also important to strengthen the awareness of copyrights and the protection of intellectual property rights. It means ORI ANIMATION will be in a better circumstance because of the support from government and the copyright protections strengthen.
Wang Shaodong, Wang Xiang, Cai Lixin, and Wang Hongsheng, etc, who are city leaders, was participated in this research activity.
(Partial content sources from Suzhou daily)
