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Quanzhou City, Fujian Province was recently awarded the title of "China City of Arts and Crafts" by the China Light Industry Council. Quanzhou has a long history of traditional arts and crafts, with a wide variety of categories and exquisite skills. The city has ceramics, stone carvings, jade carvings, and wood root carvings. There are 37 types of crafts, including rattan, iron, incense products, resin, jewelry, lacquered wire carving, etc. Among them, 10 crafts and arts are selected into the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List, and 23 are selected into the Fujian Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List. &ldquo ;Quanzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have always attached great importance to the development of arts and crafts industry and listed it as one of the city’s five traditional industries and ten economic pillar industries." According to Zheng Wenliang, director of the Quanzhou Urban Collective Industry Association, Quanzhou’s existing arts and crafts There are more than 4,000 art companies and more than 400,000 employees. In 2017, the city’s arts and crafts enterprises above designated size achieved sales value of 85.556 billion yuan, accounting for about 7% of the country, and export delivery value of 39.858 billion yuan, accounting for about 16% of the country. The key production areas and export bases of arts and crafts in Fujian Province and even the whole country. It is understood that in June this year, the China National Light Industry Council organized an evaluation expert group to conduct on-site evaluation of Quanzhou’s declaration as the "Capital of Arts and Crafts of China". Experts of the evaluation team believed , Quanzhou arts and crafts have a long history, a wide variety of industries, clusters of industries, outstanding characteristics, effective measures in many aspects, and obvious results; Quanzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attaches great importance to the development of arts and crafts industry, continuously optimizes the industrial development environment, and effectively promotes the sustainability of the arts and crafts industry Development. The expert group unanimously agreed to recommend to the China National Light Industry Council that Quanzhou should be awarded the honorary title of "China's Capital of Arts and Crafts" Quanzhou. Hong Ziqiang, deputy mayor of Quanzhou Municipal Government, said that Quanzhou will further strengthen its mechanism guarantees. Establish a coordination and promotion mechanism involving relevant municipal departments, counties (cities, districts), and professional associations to jointly promote the transformation and upgrading of the arts and crafts industry; increase the support of special funds at the city and county levels to encourage and guide the society through multiple channels Capital invests in the inheritance and development of arts and crafts, and continuously expands and strengthens the arts and crafts industry; through "government + association + platform + enterprise", we will continue to improve the arts and crafts manufacturing chain, sales chain, talent chain, cultural chain, and integrity chain, and build Complete the industrial ecosystem, and strive to build Quanzhou into the most influential arts and crafts production base, export base, talent highland, and cultural resort in China, to build a veritable and profound Chinese arts and crafts capital and an internationally influential arts and crafts industrial cluster . Text source: People's Daily Online
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