In January 2013, the State Council of China has permitted the plan of establishing the Chinese Civilization Heritage Innovation Area in Gansu province, which makes Gansu the only culture development strategy platform at the national level so far in China.

This summit will focus on such hot topics in such fields as film, tourism, art collection and investment, creative design, animation and internet culture. It will create a platform for international industrial cooperation and communication through various activities.

Main Participants:

International Participants:

- International political figures;

- Leaders of relevant international or governmental departments;

- Senior executives from Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000;

- Industry leaders, authorities and world-renowned scholars of global cultural and industries;

- Leaders of relevant organizations and associations;

- Special guests: chiefs of cultural industry development departments in Central Asia, West Asia and Some European countries along the Silk Road 

Participants from China:

- Leaders of central and national ministries and commissions;

- Leaders of various provinces and regions along the Silk Road;

- Senior executives of Chinese top 30 renowned cultural companies;

- Renowned scholars and experts of Chinese cultural industry;

- Leaders of cultural industry departments at the Gansu provincial and city levels as well as senior executives of cultural companies.   

ICIS organizing committee

ICIS organizing committee is headed by Lianji, Propaganda Chief of Gansu Provincial Committee, CPC and member of Provincial Standing Committee. Mr. Zheng Xiongwei, Globle executive chairman of APCEO and head of APCEO China, acts as deputy chairman of the committee.

The committee sets up its office at Gansu Provincial Information Department and is divided into functional departments known as meeting department, secretary department, liaison department, reception department, information department, translation department, security department, medical department, transportation department, and finance department.

Leadership of ICIS organizing committee

ICIS 2013 Agenda

Summary of the ICIS 2013

In order to thoroughly implement the strategy of reinvigorating China through culture, promote the national cultural soft power and accelerate the construction of the Silk Road Economic Zone, the 2nd International Culture Industry Summit (ICIS 2013) and the 6th Gansu Cultural Expo were held from September 6th to 9th, 2013 in Lanzhou, Gansu. The summit was supported by the Ministry of Culture of China and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, jointly sponsored by APCEO, Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Gansu Government and co-organized by the Propaganda Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee, Asia-Pacific Fortune (Beijing) Economic Consulting Center, Gansu Provincial Department of Commerce and Department of Culture, Gansu Provincial Bureau of Radio, Film and Television, Press and Publication Bureau of Gansu Province, Foreign Affairs Office of Gansu Provincial Government, Gansu Provincial Government Information Office and Communist Youth League Gansu Committee.

The ICIS is a pageant which integrates the resources of culture industry from all over the world, focuses on the development of global culture industry, promotes the development of global culture industry and international cooperation and helps build up new economic growth points in countries. With the theme of "Development of Culture Industry and International Cooperation", the summit consists of project signing, keynote speeches, information release, roundtable meetings, theme forums and industrial visits.

The summit was inaugurated in Lanzhou on the morning of September 7th, with Wang Sanyun, Secretary of Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Congress attending the ceremony and announcing the opening of the summit. Liu Weiping, the Vice-secretary of Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Gansu Province and Ziad Aldrees, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Permanent Delegation of Saudi Arabia to UNESCO, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. The opening ceremony was presided over by Ouyang Jian, the Vice-secretary of Gansu Provincial Party Committee.

Other Chinese guests including Xiang Zhaolun, Vice-minister of the Ministry of Culture of China and Lian Ji, Member of the Standing Committee of Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee, also attended the opening ceremony.

Other international guests attending the opening ceremony included Zheng Xiongwei, renowned International Economist, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO, Allen I-chun Wu, Chairman of Asian American Republican National Federation, Tumenjargal Magaadai, Vice Minister of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Mongolia, Colin Alexander Alfred Fagan, Minister of Local Government and Community Development of Jamaica, Naeem Anwar, Minister (trade) of Pakistan High Commission, New Delhi (India), Maria Jose Nicholas, Member of Senate Spain , Mario Magalhaes Ferreira, Foreign Affairs Committee Member of Portuguese Parliament and Barbara Saromines-Ganne, Chairperson of SFCA Arts Commission. Other guests included senior management from Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 companies, listed companies and renowned cultural companies represented by Google, Microsoft, New York Times, Deloitte, Teck Resources and Air New Zealand, representatives from prestigious universities such as University of Chicago and University of Rome, heads of famous international organizations and industrial associations as well as experts and professors from research institutes.

On the afternoon of September 7th, six guests from different countries were invited to deliver keynote speeches under the summit theme of Development of Culture Industry and International Cooperation, presided over by Zhang Guangzhi, Vice-governor of Gansu Province. In the summit, Professor Zheng Xiongwei, renowned International Economist, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO released the 2013 International Cultural Industry Development Report and Information.

On the morning of September 8th, the roundtable meeting and theme forum of the 2nd ICIS were simultaneously held on the third and first floor of Gansu International Conference Center. The roundtable meeting and theme forum were moderated by Zheng Xiongwei, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO and Zhang Jianchang, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee respectively.

News

Opening Ceremony of the 2nd ICIS

The keynote session of the 2nd ICIS

The participants of the 2nd ICIS

Ziad Aldrees, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Permanent Delegation of Saudi Arabia to UNESCO, addressed the opening ceremony of the 2nd ICIS

Liu Weiping, Governor of Gansu Province, addressed the opening ceremony of the 2nd ICIS

Zheng Xiongwei, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO, standing on the rostrum in the opening ceremony of the 2nd ICIS

Ouyang Jian, Deputy Secretary of Gansu Provincial Party Committee of China, host the opening ceremony of the 2nd ICIS

Liu Weiping, Governor of Gansu Province and Xiang Zhaolun, Vice Minister of Ministry of Culture, visit the exhibition hall of the 2nd ICIS

Zhang Guangzhi, Vice Governor of Gansu Province host the keynote session of the 2nd ICIS

Lian Ji, Minister of the Propaganda Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ICIS

Ralph John Lutes, Vice President of Asian Affairs & Chief Representative of Teck Resources Limited, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ICIS

Maria Jose Nicolas, Member of Spain Senate, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ICIS

Barbara Saromines-Ganne, Chairperson of SFCA Arts Commission, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ICIS

Xiong Chengyu, Professor of Tsinghua University and Director of National Research Center for Cultural Industry, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ICIS

Robert Paul Hilty, Chairman of Swiss CCS, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd ICIS

Information publicizing by Zheng Xiongwei, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO

Zhou Qingshan, Deputy Director of the Institute for Cultural Industries at Beijing University, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Zhao Xiaoling, Director of the Centre for Film & Television of the Institute for Cultural Industries at Beijing University, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Wang Yafei, President of the Anhui Publishing Group, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Wang Jianjiang, Professor of Shanghai Normal University, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Zhang Guangrui, lead researcher of the research center for truism of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Liu Daoqiang, President of Shenzhen Huaqiang Holdings Limited, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Li Min, Vice President, Talent International Media Co., Ltd, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Dai Xu, President of Leafun Culture, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Xu Xiaoyong, Vice President of World Culture Silicon Valley Assets Operation Company, delivered a speech at the Forum on the Silk Road and Chinese Civilization of the 2nd ICIS

Alex Siu Fun Ku, Chairman of Culture & Creative Industry Committee of HK SME Global Alliance, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Anita J Zhang, Chair of Australia China Business Link Association, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Witiya Pittungnapoo, Lecturer of Faculty of Architecture, Naresuan University of Thailand, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Vladimir Šimović, Dean of University Department of University of Zagreb, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Jan-Urban Sandal, Owner and Director of Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute of Norway, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Chuen-Juei Ho, Yin-Bin Ning, Professors of Central University, Taiwan, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Zheng En, President of Global Chinese Financial Forum, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Carmen Sandoval, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Projects Introduction in the 2nd Internation Culture Industry Summit (ICIS 2013)

Intentional Contract Exchange in the 2nd ICIS between Chinese and foreign parties

Conference Site of the 2nd ICIS

The splendid folk dance in the exhibition hall of the 2nd ICIS and the 6th Gansu Culture Expo

Yuan Zhanting, Mayor of Lanzhou, introduce Lanzhou city to the foreign guests in the night cruise of Lanzhou city

The participants of the 2nd ICIS attend the night cruise of Lanzhou city

Letter of Congratulation from the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

Sandeep Bahl, Regional General Manager Asia of Air New Zealand, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Puzhu Yao, Strategic Partner Development Manager of Google, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Yusuf Ziya Irbec, Member of Parliament, Turkish Parliament, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Hamish Clinton, Senior Manager of Deloitte, delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

Silviu Emil Ciobota, Leader of New Chamber Philharmonic of Europe E.V., delivered a speech at the Roundtable Meeting on the Development Trend of Cultural Industry and International Cooperation of Cultural Industry of the 2nd ICIS

The 2nd Global Cultural Industry Development Report