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# China

Posts in this archive: 32

- [UNESCO Site: Restoring and safeguarding Beijing’s Central Axis](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/beijing-central-axis-cultural-policy-2.md) — In 2024, Beijing’s Central Axis was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a cultural policy milestone in China. This historic urban spine showcases imperial planning traditions and blends conservation science, regulatory reform, digital innovation, and civic participation. From volunteer patrols to interactive technology, the project has preserved centuries-old heritage while improving the districts along the Axis – reinforcing community engagement and promoting international cultural dialogue.
- [Ancient Made New: Beijing’s Intangible Cultural Heritage is at the heart of global exchange and tourism boost](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/beijing-intangible-cultural-heritage-policy-2.md) — Beijing is home to 447 intangible cultural heritage projects. Thirteen – including silk weaving, tea etiquette and shadow puppetry – are on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the most in China. Leveraging these unique cultural assets, Beijing launched the first International Week of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2023;and opened the Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience Centre in 2024. Both have enabled Beijing to increase public engagement and boost inbound tourism.
- [Urban Renewal: Beijing’s cultural strategy transformed former industrial site into thriving Shougang Park ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/shougang-park-urban-renewal-2.md) — On the outskirts of the capital, Beijing’s cultural strategy has transformed a vast 863 hectares steel production site into a unique visitor destination, positioning Shougang Park as a model for urban development, and industrial heritage revitalisation. By capitalising on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing repurposed Shougang Park’s industry structures – like blast furnaces and cooling towers – into thriving ecological, cultural and recreational spaces that boosted tourism and the night time economy.
- [How Chengdu became a destination for spectating online video game tournaments](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chengdu-esports-policy.md) — Chengdu’s comprehensive esports policy is transforming the city into a national destination for gaming tournaments by investing in venues, events, and clubs, while leveraging culture and technology to enhance its global identity and urban development.
- [How Chengdu launched China’s first city-level science fiction policy to boost sci-fi culture and tourism](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/sci-fi-strategy-how-chengdu-launched-chinas-first-city-level-science-fiction-policy-to-boost-sci-fi-culture-and-tourism.md) — Chengdu’s pioneering sci-fi strategy—the first of its kind in China—supports content creation, industry development, and global promotion, positioning the city as a hub where science fiction drives cultural innovation, tourism, and economic growth.
- [Cultural Infrastructure: Fostering digital creative startups in Chengdu](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chengdu-digital-creative-startups-support.md) — Chengdu’s first municipal policy for digital cultural startups provides funding, rent-free workspaces, R&D and housing support to nurture early-stage ventures, strengthening the city’s role as a hub for creative innovation and entrepreneurship.
- [Guangzhou Design Week: a global platform for design-led urban and cultural innovation](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/guangzhou-design-week.md) — Founded in 2006, Guangzhou Design Week is one of Asia’s most comprehensive annual design events. Since 2020, its focus has shifted from industrial upgrading to embedding design in public life and urban regeneration. Through partnerships with over 30 countries and global events like Milan Design Week, it plays a key role in cultural diplomacy – positioning Guangzhou as a creative capital and model for cities integrating design into policy and international exchange.
- [Cultural Innovation: Expanding 2,000-year-old Guangzhou Flower Market’s cultural offering](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/guangzhou-flower-market-cultural-heritage-innovation.md) — Guangzhou’s 2,000-year-old Spring Festival Flower Market, now recognised as national intangible cultural heritage, blends ancient Lunar New Year traditions with modern innovations like drone shows, street food, and riverside events to drive cultural tourism, the flower industry, and the nighttime economy.
- [Heritage Innovation: How Guangzhou developed its intangible heritage into culture-led design and lifestyle products](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/heritage-innovation-how-guangzhou-developed-its-intangible-heritage-into-culture-led-design-and-lifestyle-products.md) — 'Recommended Gifts from the Bay Area' is a cultural innovation initiative from Guangzhou that transforms Lingnan intangible heritage - like food, opera, and folk festivals - into modern design products. Through creative reinterpretation of traditions such as the “Pantang’s Five Treasures” and lion dance, the initiative promotes cultural identity, stimulates the creative economy, and shows how urban policy can integrate heritage into everyday life for global audiences.
- [Cultural Appreciation: How Nanjing is integrating aesthetic education into urban life](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nanjing-social-aesthetic-education-initiative.md) — In 2024, Nanjing launched a cultural strategy focused on three areas: revitalising public spaces, nurturing humanistic aesthetic values, and promoting city-wide aesthetic awareness. 53 projects were piloted to engage citizens with art and beauty through public space revitalization, evening classes, and cultural programming. Supported by digital campaigns and volunteer networks, the initiative enhances cultural wellbeing and offers a replicable model for embedding aesthetic education into urban policy and city planning.
- [How Nanjing brings classical literature to life through immersive experience ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/literary-heritage-how-nanjing-brings-classical-literature-to-life-through-immersive-experience.md) — Nanjing’s immersive adaptation of Dream of the Red Chamber redefines how traditional literary IP can engage modern audiences. Debuting in July 2024, this digitally driven exhibition attracted over 10,000 visitors and generated more than one million RMB, while sparking renewed interest in Chinese literary heritage among youth. By blending immersive tech with cultural storytelling, the project exemplifies how cities can make classical literature relevant for new generations.
- [Digital Heritage: How Nanjing enriched its City of Literature heritage with digital technology](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/revitalising-nanjing-city-of-literature-heritage-with-digital-innovation.md) — Nanjing, with its 1,800-year literary heritage, transformed its cultural narrative through digital innovation. By leveraging big data, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality, the City of Literature’s heritage has been enriched. The network of over 1,000 QR codes on cultural landmarks has generated more than 40 curated literary routes, provided infrastructure for over 100 cultural and tourism enterprises, and enhanced smart tourism services across the city.
- [Beijing](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/beijing.md)
- [Nanjing](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/nanjing.md) — Much of the cultural workforce is employed by small, medium, and micro-enterprises across the city. These play a vital role in the sector’s ecosystem and work cooperatively together. As of June 2021, Nanjing had 154,037 new art and cultural organisations and 540,000 new art and cultural practitioners, covering art forms including literature, theatre, music, dance, fine arts, and literary critics, artistic training, and cultural investment management.
- [Nanjing blends culture, business and tourism in its theatre revival](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nanjing-blends-culture-business-and-tourism-in-its-theatre-revival.md) — Nanjing aims to strengthen its cultural landscape by creating and renovating not-for-profit studio theater spaces across the city. The objective is to build a stronger theater brand, encourage cultural integration, and promote the synergy of culture, business, and tourism.
- [Nanjing transforms its literary legacy into a modern marvel](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nanjing-transforms-its-literary-legacy-into-a-modern-marvel.md) — Nanjing was formerly the home of China's oldest literary museum and aims to capitalize on this aspect of its history, using it as a foundation for local and tourist engagement.
- [Nanjing's immersive experiences usher in a new era for cultural heritage](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nanjings-immersive-experiences-usher-in-a-new-era-for-cultural-heritage.md) — How the city of Nanjing is accelerating using new digital technologies to enhance and market cultural heritage, helping to increase revenue and facilitate the integration of culture and tourism.
- [Policies, prosperity and beyond: how Shenzhen is embedding culture into development planning](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/policies-for-the-development-of-cultural-industries.md) — In order to promote the high-quality
development of the creative industries, Shenzhen City and its districts have introduced a series of development plans and policies, with increasing policy funds.
- [Shenzhen's green mission: protecting mangroves as a haven for biodiversity](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/guarding-the-mangrove-wetland.md) — The restoration of mangrove wetlands is an important part of Shenzhen's ecological protection policy. For many years, Shenzhen has carried out related protection and restoration work by implementing a characteristic protection system of "forest chief system", building a mangrove museum, and conducting mangrove science popularisation education activities.
- [How Shenzhen's Nantou ancient city preserves its 1,700-year heritage amidst urban development](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/nantou-ancient-city-neighborhood-renovation.md) — Nantou Ancient City renovation project was set up to preserve and enhance a historically significant district in Shenzhen with a rich history spanning over 1,700 years. This district is known for its cultural importance and its transformation into a modern, integrated community that seamlessly blends its historical and contemporary elements
- [The art of participation: 'Creative December' and its evolving role in Shenzhen](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/creative-december.md) — Creative December has become an important cultural festival for Shenzhen citizens.
- [How Guangzhou Cultural Industry Fair has transformed the city's creative landscape](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/guangzhou-cultural-industry-fair.md) — Guangzhou is focused on building its international reputation and strengthening its vibrant creative industries. Since 2017, it has hosted the Guangzhou Cultural Industry Fair, integrating existing resources and promoting high quality cultural projects and products.
- ['Summer in the City of Rams': how the campaign model is bridging heritage and modern culture in Guangzhou](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/summer-in-the-city-of-rams-guangzhou-citizens-cultural-season.md) — The Guangzhou government has been keen to upgrade the cultural offer of the city, to revitalise its traditional culture, and offer more artistic activities to the general public.
- [Can the arts inspire climate change? The secret behind HKYAF's success in engaging hundreds of young artists in Hong Kong](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/hong-kong-hong-kong-jockey-club-community-project-grant-start-up-community-arts-project-2021.md) — Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation appointed artists to work with teachers and youths to create works on environmental issues.
- [A win-win initiative: how Hong Kong's schools are becoming art spaces](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/hong-kong-arts-in-school-partnership-scheme.md) — The Arts-in-School Partnership Scheme aims to foster collaboration between local arts organisations/artists and schools by encouraging school operators to lease their premises and facilities to arts organisations and artists for artistic creation and production.
- [Chengdu's path to prosperity: making cultural financing accessible](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/innovative-cultural-financing-boost-to-both-economies.md) — An innovative capital fund created to support creative thinking in Chengdu's cultural and financial industries.
- [Tech meets culture in Chengdu: how an app is changing the game in cultural tourism](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/you-chengdu-creating-a-flagship-cultural-app.md) — A mobile app is increasing audience engagement with cultural offerings in Chengdu, particularly for younger audiences and those living in rural areas close to the city.
- [Guangzhou](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/guangzhou.md) — Innovative economic models, involving partnerships between the Government, businesses, and residents, have yielded projects that both preserve cultural heritage and enhance the overall quality of life in the modern city. A successful example of this is the micro-renovation of Yongqingfang district, which not only established the city's inaugural intangible heritage community but also safeguarded its architectural heritage.
- [Historic districts to open-air museums: how Hong Kong infused design into daily life](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/design-district-hong-kong.md) — Creativity is flourishing in the city of Hong Kong, and it has recently contributed to diversifying the city's tourism offerings. Presented by the Tourism Commission of Hong Kong and organized by the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), the three-year creative tourism project 'Design District Hong Kong #ddHK' was launched in 2018.
- [Bruce Lee's former residence and the cultural revival of Yongqingfang district in Guangzhou](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/yongqingfang-micro-renovation-project.md) — The Yongqingfang district boasts a wealth of heritage but was gradually deteriorating. A unique development model is enabling micro-renovations  to preserve this historical neighbourhood.
- [Chengdu's ambitious park city vision: leading the world in green infrastructure planning](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chengdu-park-city.md) — Chengdu's rapid economic growth has led to increased urbanisation, raising concerns about the environment and a growing disconnect between people and nature. The densely gridded urban layouts common in many Chinese cities have resulted in a shortage of green spaces.
- [Hong Kong](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/hong-kong.md) — Hong Kong has emerged as one of the world's art trading hubs, with imports and exports of works of art, collector's pieces, and antiques amounting to $33.6 billion in 2020, doubling the 2017 figure. Top-tier international art galleries and auction houses have expanded their presence in Hong Kong in recent years, solidifying the city's position as Asia's premier art trading centre. However, the government also recognises the significance of arts and culture in building an inclusive and cohesive society, fostering enjoyment and a sense of belonging among citizens