Policy Address

Enhance Cultural Soft Power and Promote Development of Cultural and Creative Industries

122. The CSTB consulted the arts and cultural community last year on the formulation of the Blueprint for Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Development. The blueprint will cover four major development directions: promoting the development of diverse arts and culture with an international perspective, promoting Chinese culture, fostering arts and cultural exchange between China and the rest of the world, and driving industry development. The CSTB will consult the Culture Commission shortly and promulgate the blueprint later this year.

123. Established in June, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency adopts an industry-oriented approach to promote the development of the cultural and creative industries. Relevant measures include:

  1. incubating more cultural and creative projects with potential for industrialisation through the CreateSmart Initiative and strengthening cross-sectoral collaboration and leveraging market resources, facilitating the industries to explore business opportunities;

  2. facilitating more registration of local and non-local cultural and creative products on the Asia IP Exchange Portal to foster cross-sectoral exchange, collaboration and business matching, and promoting transactions and transformation of cultural IP; and

  3. making the new flagship Hong Kong Fashion Design Week an annual signature event to develop Hong Kong into a fashion design hub in Asia.