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Since its inception in 1986, Shanghai TV Festival has been adhering to its philosophy of professionalism, internationalism and benefiting the people, constantly innovating the festival mechanism, improving the service level and enhancing the brand influence. Now, having made itself one of the most important international TV exchange platforms in Asia, Shanghai TV Festival plays an active role in promoting the development of China’s TV culture and TV industry, facilitating Chinese and foreign TV culture exchanges, launching the “Shanghai Culture” brand and building Shanghai into a global film and TV creation center.

The 28th Shanghai TV Festival held in 2023 received almost 1,900 works from 49 countries and regions of five continents.This year, online audio and video content across the board were compete for the Magnolia Awards for the first time. This is a major adjustment to the scope of entries in response to the trends and changes of the industry. The purpose is to help create a healthy cyberspace for cultural content.Seven theme forums and three MasterClass sessions were organized during the festival, with 82 guests from 10 countries and regions involved in the discussions and about 1,500 industry audience attending on site.

Shanghai TV Festival, taking implementing the call of the Party and the state of promoting the prosperity of the socialist TV art in the new era as its own responsibility and mission, inspires the TV workers to portrait, document and enlighten the times, create more refined works for the people and render a Chinese theater ever on with the people-centered creation orientation and an unswerving cultural self-confidence.