The Second Session of International Cultural Administration Annual Meeting of 2014 Held by UIBE
The Second Session of International Cultural Administration Annual Meeting of 2014 was held in the International Conference Hall of Cheng Xin Building of UIBE on July 12, 2014. The meeting is an international cultural administration meeting which is of both academic meaning and cultural meaning. It is designed to promote the international communications among cultural scholars of universities, cultural entrepreneurs, cultural administrative managers and non-government cultural organization managers, so as to build an international cooperation platform and to promote the development of cultural management subject and the cultural and creative industry.
Zhao Zhongxiu, Vice President of UIBE, Dean Peng Xianggang from School of Public Administration, as well as other famous scholars form both home and abroad attended the meeting. Director Wu Chengzhong of Cultural and Recreational Industry Study Center hosted the meeting.
Zhao Zhongxiu showed a lot support to this meeting. He agreed that the meeting helped improve the education quality and level of UIBE, and contributed to the internationalization and opening of UIBE.
Peng Xianggang briefly introduced majors and academic researches of SPA, and said holding the meeting marked a higher level of UIBE’s international education. He thought the annual meeting had formed a link among scholars, and was a result of Chinese culture’s internationalization.
University leaders gave away letter of appointment to scholars for being par-time researchers in Cultural and Recreational Industry Study Center of UIBE. A few famous scholars gave keynote speeches, including Professor Margaret J. Wyszomirski from Ohio State University, Professor Ann M.Galligan from Northeastern University, Director of National Cultural Industry Research Center of Tsinghua University, Professor Xiong Chengyu from College of Journalism and Communications, Professor Allen J.Scott from Public Policy College and Geography Major of University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Julio Burros of DePaul University and Director of Chicago Cultural Planning Department and Jin Yuanpu, Director of China Cultural Industry Research Center and Professor of College of Arts of Renmin University of China. Isar Yudhishthir, Professor from American University of Paris and former senior official of United Nations Educational，Scientific，and Cultural Organization, gave comments.
Among these speeches, Professor Ann M.Galligan put forwarded the three stages of cultural arts under city and economic development, which were art patronage, economic drive, small-sized commercial. It means during city development, arts will gradually change from artists initiated, social sponsored and government supported to commercial activity, and will generate economic benefits.
Xiong Chengyu’s speech topic is “The Development Report of Digital Content Industry of 2014”. He analyzed the development of China’s digital industry. In 2014, American digital industry scale was listed top one, while China’s digital industry developed fastest. Digital games, digital music, video industry driven by advertising and cartoon and it derivatives are the four main products. In recent years, the world digital industry has showed the trend of transferring to developing countries, content localization and technology influencing the industrial pattern. That’s because it is technology driven, command driven, policy driven and capital driven.
During the “Conversation with Experts”, six scholars discussed the relations among culture , the government and market. That all agreed the government and market should work together. But some American scholars raised the idea of “small government”and emphasized the role of individual. They held the opinions that the government’s power should be strictly limited and the cultural industry should be marketized as much as possible. The government can only intervene when the market fails. With the ideas from the Third Plenary Session as the guiding principle, Chinese scholars adhered to “the decisive role of market in resources allocation”, and they also thought the government was important too. The development of China’s cultural industry is promoted by the government from up to down. Qi Yongfeng from Communication University of China said the roles of market and government should be decided by national conditions and social development.
During the afternoon’s forum, representatives made speeches and exchanges on topics including “cultural economy and creative economy”, “cultural regime and cultural administration education”, “academic articles publishing in international magazines”, “cultural heritage and recreational administration”, “international cultural trade and cultural industry management ”, “cultural economy and cultural diplomacy” and “cultural economy and tourism economy”.
