{"id":16271,"date":"2019-03-03T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=16271"},"modified":"2019-03-03T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:34:25","slug":"invitation-participation-4th-china-ningbo-culture-industries-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/invitation-participation-4th-china-ningbo-culture-industries-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation for Participation in the 4th China (Ningbo) Culture Industries Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16263 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-113x75.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/>On behalf of the organising team, we would like to invite <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">companies from Sofia, working in the creative and cultural sector<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to take part in the forthcoming <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcif.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China (Ningbo) Cultural Industries Fair <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be held on 12 \u2013 14 April 2019 in Ningbo, China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forum is suitable for creative or cultural companies, including the ICT sector &#8211; animation, games, smart cities, smart homes, architectural and interior design, robots, culture and tourism software; creativity in digital advertising; products for virtual and added reality, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For additional information and support for the participation process, you can contact the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bg.cccsofia.org\/?fbclid=IwAR3hvoDUHEgWQ2GAvpmHbbf4NVP_1CMXXYd8X-4IZ1TXAERXvsjSj8fw5aQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese Cultural Center in Sofia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The deadline for applications is until the end of March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participating companies should cover the costs of airline tickets to and from China. The transfer to and from Ningbo, as well as the accommodation in the city will be covered by the organisers. The arrangement of the exhibition space and the construction of related elements (stands, decoration, etc.) will be provided as well. The organisers will also be fully involved in the customs procedures for the import of the exhibition items as well as the materials and products that can be offered for sale during the fair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also contact the Chinese Cultural Center in Sofia to help you pre-arrange B2B meetings with Chinese partners who are interested in external collaborations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applications and <\/span><b>requests for further information must be directed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Gina Bal\u0430reva, phone: 0887080861, email: cccsofia@chinaculture.org<\/span><br \/>\n[su_custom_gallery source=&#8221;media: 16267,16261,16265&#8243; link=&#8221;image&#8221; target=&#8221;blank&#8221; width=&#8221;280&#8243; height=&#8221;150&#8243; title=&#8221;never&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><b>About <\/b><b>China (Ningbo) Cultural Industries Fair<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ningbo is an important port city on the southeastern coast of China, the economic center on the south side of the Yangtze River Delta. Ningbo is at the leading edge of social reforms in modern China and integrates Chinese and western culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Ningbo cultural industry has been rapidly developed. Added value of Ningbo cultural and creative industries exceeded 70 billion yuan in 2017, accounting for 7% of GDP. China (Ningbo) Cultural Industries Fair has always been dedicated to promoting industry transformation and upgrading, accelerating to drive integrative development of \u201cculture plus\u201d, expanding economic and trade cooperation and exchange based on regional advantages in the \u201cBelt and Road Initiative\u201d, and creating important platform for display and transaction of domestic and foreign cultural industries since it was established. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China (Ningbo) Cultural Industries Fair has been gradually become one of the largest cultural fair platforms in Zhejiang province and even in Eastern China after three-year development, which is highly praised and \u00a0unanimously recognized by domestic and foreign customers and merchants at the Fair<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fair contents of exhibition trade, investment negotiation, conference forum, and award ceremony. Total area of the exhibition is 53 thousand square meters. The Fair has been successively convened for three years with total participants of more than 700 thousand person-times. It has four themes of the \u201cBelt and Road Initiative\u201d, tradition culture and modern life, cultural intelligence and digital technology, and innovation and development of cultural industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event has attracted about 50 national institutions from the US, France, the UK, Spain, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Uruguay, Cuba, Venezuela, Switzerland, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and more than 500 domestic enterprises, as well as over 300 foreign companies. Field transaction amount of the Fair reaches 1,255 million yuan with intended transaction amount of 3,478 million yuan and total contract amount of 23,291 million yuan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4th China (Ningbo) Culture Industries Fair will be held in eight halls, including \u201cthe Belt &amp; Road\u201d thematic hall, \u201cthe Belt &amp; Road\u201d urban hall, traditional culture &amp; modern life hall, culture, intelligence &amp; digital technology thematic hall, and cultural industry innovation hall. For \u201cthe Belt &amp; Road\u201d international hall, we will invite countries along the silk road and enhance cultural communication and investment attraction on cultural industries between Ningbo and countries along \u201cthe Belt and Road\u201d and in \u201cCEE partnership\u201d around the core of taking Ningbo as the port of departure of the maritime silk road. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this Fair, the economic and trade cooperation between China and EU will be further enhanced, and opportunities of political, economic and social development, cooperation and coordination will emerge, for which we will invite key European cities, icluding Sofia, to present their cultural and creative companies and cultural products. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of the organising team, we would like to invite companies from Sofia, working in the creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}