Speech for the 21st Shanghai TV Festival
Tian Jin,
Vice Minister of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of The People’s Republic of China
Chairman of the STVF Organizing Committee
Another lively June has arrived. It is a great pleasure for TV program makers from home and abroad to gather here for the Shanghai TV Festival with a surge in our common creative spirits. Here, on behalf of the General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the Shanghai TV Festival Organizing Committee, I would like to extend my sincerest welcome to guests and friends coming from around the world.
Compared with other sorts of media, TV possesses unique strength in diffusion, influence and accessibility. The Shanghai TV Festival, the first TV Festival set up in China, has witnessed the efforts and struggles made by several generations of TV program makers, and it has accumulated overseas influence for the cultural brand “Chinese creativity and Chinese production”. Accompanied with the upgrading and development of Chinese cultural undertakings and the cultural industry, the Shanghai TV Festival constantly accomplishes its missions and functions, driving more and more Chinese works and new forces on to the international stage by virtue of its increasing overseas broadcasting power.
The powerful combination of culture and technology has allowed the TV industry to achieve strides in development over and over. Nowadays, with new technologies developing continuously, people can turn on their televisions or handheld electronic devices and find access to various kinds of TV programs anytime and anywhere. In this new age where media technology is developing rapidly all over the world, the Shanghai TV Festival has always insisted on leading the new trends, embracing the latest media and technologies, making each year’s festival a great and exciting event that has a splendid appearance.
Today, this cultural broadcasting platform is becoming more mature. By means of experience in continuous optimization and more practical main content settings, the Shanghai TV Festival will implement more comprehensive functions and assist the industry in even more aspects.
Weng Tiehui,
Vice Mayor of Shanghai,
Chairman of the STVF Organizing Committee
The 21st Shanghai TV Festival is upon us, and I would like to express the warmest welcome to guests and friends who have gathered here in Shanghai from across the globe to participate in this annual feast – the 21st Shanghai TV Festival – on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Government and Shanghai TV Festival Organizing Committee.
Television is most closely related to people’s lives and it has become an indispensible part of people’s daily activities. Shanghai TV Festival has always represented the future of the industry with its dedication to the values of professionalism and authority in recent years. This year, Shanghai TV Festival will continue to focus its attention on matters on and off the screen as well as difficulties and hot topics within the industry. Besides this, the festival’s horizon will be broadened to include variety shows and focus on the massive transformation within the industry over the past year. Sensitive issues concerning the development of the TV industry have prompted Shanghai TV Festival to come up with innovations year after year. Based on the high quality of the festival and its professional pursuit, the festival communicates excellent cultures promotes in-depth integration of high-quality TV resources and facilitates the cooperation and development in the industry.
With over twenty years’ experience in hosing TV Festivals, Shanghai TV Festival has become a benchmark of the industry for its professional awards and forums, globalized market and the presentation of diverse TV programs from home and abroad. Shanghai TV Festival is attracting more and more TV program makers from around the world to get involved and has established a platform for various screen cultures to learn from each other, compare, exchange and develop.
Shanghai TV Festival will continue in its role of encouraging cultural communication, industrial agglomeration and economic promotion, taking further steps to encourage the friendly exchange and cooperation among Chinese culture and other cultures around the world. Once again, we will put on a vivid impressive event for everyone attending this year.
State Administration of Radio and Television
