Only by continuous innovation with Chinese characteristics and open mentality can we make Chinese cultural industries bigger and stronger. I firmly believe that under the guidance of the party and the government, Chinese cultural industries will forward constantly with our joint efforts, and China will occupy an important place in world cultural industries. I am looking forward to that day.

By Cheng Siwei, Vice Chairman of the 9th and 10th Standing Committee of NPC

It is of great significance to develop cultural & creative industries against the background of financial crisis. History tells us that innovation has the capacity to weather a financial crisis. Both technology and culture drive innovation. Technological innovation results in a leap forward in function, and cultural innovation has a transformational impact on notions and values. That’s why we should formulate national strategy of culture as well as technology.

By Li Wuwei,Vice Chairman of the 11 th National Committee of the CPPCC

The founding of the Institute for Cultural Industries ten years ago was forward-looking. It reveals the tradition of daring to outperform others at Peking University. On the 22nd of July 2009, the State Council signed the permission to the plan of rejuvenating cultural industries, which initiated Chinese cultural industries’ striding into the great wave of economic development in China as national strategic ones. Peking University and other units have been persisting in studying, promoting and propelling the cultural development during the past ten years and have made an indispensable contribution to today’s vitalization.

By Cai Wu,Minister of the Ministry of Culture, PRC

The growing maturity of computers, internet and digital technology breeds new medium and industrialized culture, bringing about the revolutionary changes to the inherent pattern of cultural production, publicity and consumption. Cultural value being the soul, scientific technology being the support and modern publicity being the mark, the newly-bred cultural industries have already become an industrial cluster.

By Liu Binjie,Minister of General Administration of Press and Publication, PRC

Facing challenges in the wake of the crisis, we have reasons to believe that cultural industries can do a great deal of in its capacity as brain industry and intellectual economy. ...... In the new situation of weak economy around the world, how to grasp the opportunities for the cultural industries and build an innovative China is a problem our government policy-makers, experts, scholars and enterprise professionals must solve first.

By Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University

Cultural industries not only need ‘interference’ and support from the public and the government, but also that from the individuals. As is seen in a survey, cultural industries contribute more to GPP growth rate than traditional sector like catering. Employees in the industries usually possess more sophisticated skills. Most of them are higher-educated. In some sense, they would be more effective in the cultural field than in other fields.

By Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning, Official Spokesman for EU & Director General of Education and Culture Dept.