On November 21, 2018, the Exchange Meeting on the Development of the Cultural Trade between China and Arab Countries was co-hosted by Beijing Cultural Investment International Holdings Co., Ltd. and the Wisdom Palace Cultural Industry Group at the National Base for International Cultural Trade (NBICT) (Beijing).
Participants
The participants of the meeting included entrepreneurs, artists and scholars from China General Chamber of Commerce, Chinese Culture Promotion Society, the Ceramic Association of Jingdezhen City, China Media Group, the Copyright Protection Center of China, China Arts and Crafts Exchange, Huaxia Chinese Medical Development Foundation, the Artwork Finance Research Center of the NBICT, CGTN-Arabic, China Arab TV, Outlets (China) Limited, Beijing Furen Fudi Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Zhongshi Great Wall International Advertising (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing Bonesoft Co., Ltd., and Beijing Language Services Center for Cultural Trade, among other institutions.
Open dialogue
During the meeting, Chen Gang, Assistant to the General Manager of Beijing Cultural Investment International Holdings Co., Ltd., Zhang Shirong, President of the Wisdom Palace Cultural Industry Group, and Liang Sheng, General Manager of Wisdom Palace (Beijing), introduced in detail the conception, scheme and background of the platform for the cultural trade between China and Arab countries respectively. Other participants of the meeting put forward concrete suggestions and opinions on the building of the platform from broad and systematic perspectives such as Chinese-Arabic cultural differentiation and integration, inheritance and innovation, products and property rights, and platforms and channels, and expressed their enthusiasm for participating in the construction of the platform and their willingness to strengthen cooperation.
Zheng Wenjun, General Manager of the Derivatives Division of the Copyright Protection Center of China, Gao Lei, President of Beijing Furen Fudi Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Jing Xiaomeng, Project Director of China Media Wealth (Beijing) Investment Management Co., Ltd., and Chen Guoqiang, Deputy General Manager of Beijing Language Services Center for Cultural Trade, introduced the products and services of their companies respectively.
Platform overview
The platform for the cultural trade between China and Arab countries at the NBICT (Beijing) was jointly planned, initiated and constructed by Beijing Cultural Investment International Holdings Co., Ltd. and the Wisdom Palace Cultural Industry Group, aiming to make full use of the brand, service, channel, experience, policy and geographical advantages of the two parties and other cooperative institutions to serve Chinese cultural and art enterprises represented by the key cultural projects along “The Belt and Road”. The platform will expand the cultural trade between China and Arab countries by facilitate the “going out” of such enterprises to the Arab world to import cultural and artistic products, thus developing into a benchmarking platform for cultural trade.
Wisdom Palace
With the mission of “telling Chinese stories and communicating Chinese culture”, the Wisdom Palace Cultural Industry Group takes “China-Arab Cooperation with priority given to culture” as its development positioning and “Internet + Cultural Industry” as its development mode. With a share of 90% in the Chinese-Arabic book translation market, the Wisdom Palace has translated, published and exported more than 910 Chinese-Arabic books with copyright; built “the Wisdom Palace Book Mall”, the first online reading and sales platform for Arabic books of Arab countries, and the database platform “Wisdom Palace Library”; translated and exported 210 Chinese films and TV and animation works to send out the right voice of China and further spread excellent Chinese culture; and developed the “Wisdom Palace Translation”, a literal Chinese-Arabic translation software. The Wisdom Palace has been actively implementing “The Belt and Road” Initiative by forming eight core business segments such as “The Belt and Road” China-Arab cultural exchange platform and the intelligent platform for the translation between Chinese and Arabic, committed to developing into a leading enterprise in Arabic cultural industry along the “The Belt and Road”.
National Base for International Cultural Trade (Beijing)
Established under the cooperation framework of China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, and officially licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the National Base for International Cultural Trade (Beijing) and the Culture Free Port of Beijing Tianzhu Free Trade Zone serve as a national-level service platform for international cultural trade. According to the deployment of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, Beijing Cultural Investment Development Group has been fully responsible for the development of the NBICT (Beijing) since July 2017, and has established Beijing Cultural Investment International Holdings Co., Ltd. in charge of the investment, construction and operations management of the base. Following the requirements of “The Belt and Road” development initiative and culture development strategies, the NBICT takes advantage of the airport bonded policy, functions and services to provide domestic and foreign cultural institutions with international services such exhibition and experience, communication and promotion, transaction settlement, incubation and cultivation, financing and investment, and warehousing and logistics, based on three functional zones, namely the Gathering Center for International Cultural Trade Enterprises, the Exhibition, Warehousing and Logistics Center for International Cultural Products, and the Trading Service Center for International Cultural commodities. With its construction and development based in Beijing, the NBICT is committed to serving the whole country and even the rest of the world, and developing into a center for global cultural exhibition, exchanges and trade.