Welcome Speech by TU Guangshao, Chairman of 17th STVF

TU Guangshao
Vice Mayor of Shanghai
Chairman, STVF Organizing Committee

The 17th Shanghai TV Festival is now opened. On behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Government and Shanghai TV Festival Committee, I warmly welcome the guests and friends who has come all the way from all over the world to Shanghai.

As a most promising industry, the Film and TV industry infiltrates and blends in with economy, science and technology, and plays a more and more important role in the competition of the overall strength between countries and regions. In the post-expo era, the further development of the soft cultural power of a city has been taken as an important aim of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan by the Shanghai Municipal Government. By the development of the soft cultural power, the aim of “Better City, Better Life” will finally be achieved. As the earliest-established TV festival in China, and the largest and most influential TV festival in Asia, Shanghai TV Festival has devoted to the communication of TV cultures at home and abroad, global cooperation in the industry, creative thinking and professional ways of operation. The 17th Shanghai TV Festival tamps the main content and speeds up the service to the TV industry when facing the trend of Integration and accelerated globalization. For instance, the summit of this year’s Shanghai TV Festival will pay close attention to the relocation of the content-centered TV industry chain and start inter-boundary cooperation to achieve the grand development of content industry under the circumstance of new media. I believe, with these efforts, Shanghai TV Festival can not only serve as a platform for the development of the TV industry, but also can inspire Shanghai as an international metropolis.

I sincerely wish the 17th Shanghai TV Festival a great success!