On the morning of March 24, the leaders of Shenzhen Municipal Government reported the ICIF preparation achievements to the leaders of Guangdong Provicial Government, and discussed the next step with them. Mr. Cai Dongshi, the vice secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, Miss Zhu Xiaodan, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, Mr. Lei Yulan, the deputy governor of Guangdong Province, praised these achievements, and showed that Guangdong CPC Provincial Committee and Guangdong Provincial Government will continually support the ICIF.
 
With the support of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, Minister of Culture, General Administration of Press and Publication, Guangdong CPC Provincial Committee and Guangdong Provincial Government, the 2nd ICIF got great achievements in the preparation, especially the business cooperation. Till March 16, 81,960 square meters of the sales space had been booked, reached 80.05%of the total space. 522 enterprises signed the exhibition contract (480 from China Mainland while 42 from overseas). What's more, the overseas business cooperation received great success, 26 overseas cities signed the exhibition contract, and 3000 overseas professional visitors (including investors, financer, buyers) and 20,000 professional visitors from China will participate in this fair.
The provincial leaders thought, with the joint effort of the hosts, the preparation of the 2nd ICIF received great success, and Shenzhen play a main role in it. Based on the 1st ICIF, the 2nd ICIF has more clearly theme and emphasis, more various content, and more scientific operation. It will promote the export of Chinese cultural products, and establish a exhibition and exchange platform for these products. The leaders requested that, on the base of the preparation achievement, we should make more effort to promote the export of the cultural products, and to promote the publicity of the ICIF, establish the image of ICIF, study from the other expositions, set the organization to censor strictly, pay attention on the cultural security and the protection of the intellectual property. The leaders also requested that the departments concerned should greatly support the ICIF, and pay attention to organize the enterprises from Guangdong Province to participate in the 2nd ICIF.  
 
The principals of Publicity Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, Cultural Reform Office of Guangdong Province, Cultural Bureau of Guangdong Province, Administration of Radio, Film and Television of Guangdong Province, Administration of Press and Publication of Guangdong Province, and Mr. Wang Jingsheng, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, Miss Yan Xiaopei, the deputy mayor of Shenzhen attended on the meeting.

Source: ICIF website

Editor: Donald