The 2023 Qingdao Digital Culture Application Development Expo set up an exhibition and communication platform for the industry. A series of cooperation achievements has accumulated new drivers for the growth of digital cultural industry in Qingdao.

In the expo, 26 digital cultural industry projects signed agreements to locate in Qingdao. There are four strategic cooperation projects. Qingdao has inked strategic cooperation with China Animation Comic Game Group to build the national comprehensive service platform for animation comic games. The West Coast New Area of Qingdao signed strategic cooperation agreements with China News Development Shenzhen Co., Ltd., Renminwang Co., Ltd. and Fuxiyun Cultural Technology Co., Ltd. to co-build the nationwide digital culture integration service platform and construct the national demonstration project for cultural big data industry. 22 of them are industrial projects, covering many new-type cultural modes such as digital music, digital animation, digital film and TV and copyright protection. As these projects materialize, Qingdao’s digital culture industry will become increasingly well-shaped.

Qingdao is rapidly gaining the high ground in the digital culture industry by facilitating cross-integration and two-way empowerment between digital science and technology and cultural industry. Qingdao, included among the first batch of Chinese national demonstration bases for the integration of culture with science and technology, ranked among the first batch of cities under incentive scheme of the State Council for cultural industry and tourism work last year. Qingdao excels remarkably in the size of cultural industry and the number of cultural science and technology-oriented companies. Aided by the digital culture expo, Qingdao has drawn e-commerce platforms of international renown such as Amazon, Oracle, eBay and Allegro to tap markets and seek common development, which is expected to stimulate Qingdao’s digital culture industry and create new opportunities to diversify outstanding digital cultural supplies and enhance digital cultural service capability.

In the digital culture application development expo, Qingdao set up a comprehensive online service platform in line with high standards, which is provided with functions including digital cultural products release and transaction, project promotion and matchmaking, online live streaming, and live streaming of the metaverse conference. Qingdao vows to build it into a domestically influential platform for release, exhibition and transaction of digital cultural products, and to gather nationwide and even worldwide digital cultural resources to boost industrial development.  (Wang Kai / Wang Meng)

1.The expo attracts the participation of more than 200 industry-leading companies including China Animation Comic Game Group and Tencent.

2、The matchmaking conference for foreign trade of digital culture.