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Zhejiang’s Cultural Development: Experience and Achievements

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Zhejiang is an economically large province and one of the forerunners of reform and opening-up in China. Since the reform and opening-up, with the advantage of a unique location and the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of making unceasing improvements and blazing new trails, Zhejiang has rapidly grown from an ecologically weak province into one of the most developed provinces in China, and it has stayed ahead nationwide in the economic, political, cultural, social, ecological and other fields.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Xi (2006), p. 289.

  2. 2.

    See The Development of the Cultural Industry in Zhejiang Province, May, 2014.

  3. 3.

    “Five factors” refer to venue, display, activity, team and mechanism; “three functions” refer to learning and teaching, etiquette, entertainment.

  4. 4.

    Liu (2014).

  5. 5.

    See The Department of Publicity under the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province: The Development of the Cultural Industry in Zhejiang Province, May, 2014.

  6. 6.

    “One core” lies in proceeding from Hangzhou's cultural industry which has rapidly risen in recent years to actively turn Hangzhou into Zhejiang's integrated cultural industrial development core and the national first-class cultural creative industrial center; “three poles” means the three highly competitive cultural industrial growth poles with outstanding advantages in the Ningbo city group, the Wenzhou city group and the city group in central Zhejiang; “seven centers” means the characteristic cultural industrial agglomeration centers which are built under the principle of characteristic advantageous development and by focusing on the cities divided into districts; “four belts” means the creative cultural industrial belt in northern Zhejiang, the industrial belt of film and television circulation in central Zhejiang, the marine cultural industrial belt in eastern Zhejiang and the ecological cultural industrial belt in southwestern Zhejiang which are built in light of regional cultural industrial development resources and common characteristics.

  7. 7.

    See The Department of Publicity under the Party Committee of Dongyang City: Building a Famous Cultural City to Promote Industrial Development—Overarching Development of the Cultural Industry in Dongyang City.

  8. 8.

    “Four horizontal lines and three vertical lines”: the Hengdian film and television city, Luzhai ancient dwellings, the ancient tombs in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 B.C.–771 B.C.), and the dinosaur ruins are the horizontal lines; natural scenic spots, rural ancient buildings, and the three-town exotic line are the vertical lines.

References

  • Liu Yuzhu, Collaborative Innovation and Integrative Development are the Effective Ways to Transform and Upgrade the Cultural Industry, the Cultural Industry Channel at www.ce.cn, September 19, 2014.

  • Xi Jinping, Carrying out Concrete Work to Stay Ahead – Line of Thought and Practice in Promoting New Development in Zhejiang, The Party School of the CPC Central Committee Press, 2006.

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Zhang, X., Hui, M. (2019). Zhejiang’s Cultural Development: Experience and Achievements. In: Xie, D., Chen, Y. (eds) Chinese Dream and Practice in Zhejiang – Culture. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7216-2_1

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