On September 28, 2008, the Shanghai International Cultural Service Trade Platform was officially launched in the city’s bonded area. It was China’s first platform for international trade in cultural goods and services.

The 130-m-high Oriental International Cultural Trade Center, which is an important facility of the platform, is close to Customs Terminal 2 of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone and has about 59,000 sq m of gross floor area.

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Huang Wenqing’s hometown is a remote village in Anhui province, where his families were pig farmers. Today he is a team manager in a car components factory in the suburbs of Beijing.

Huang, 32, is one of the members of the large force of rural workers swarming into cities looking for better opportunities. People like him have accelerated the country’s urbanization. Six out of every ten people will live in cities in 20 years in China. That means the nation will have around 900 million urban dwellers by 2030.

China will maintain its rapid pace of urbanization over the next two decades. However, due to its large population, Read more…

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At present, a dozen cultural companies have signed rental contracts with the center that can accommodate between 2,000 and 5,ooo people, and a total of 200 members are expected to move in by the end of 2009. They include performing arts companies, TV and movie production firms, publishing houses, cartoon and animation producers and others. Cultural-related companies keep showing strong interests such as four branch companies under the Xinhua Media have already settled in the building. Read more…

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