ICIF is the only comprehensive cultural fair which has been approved by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI). In 2006, as an important fair which is supported by the government, ICIF was mentioned in the Guidelines of China’s Eleventh Five-Year (2006~2010) Plan for Cultural Development, together with Olympic 2008 and EXPO 2010.

        With the idea of internationalization, specialization, market-orientation, standardization and high quality, ICIF has been held successfully for three sessions. ICIF displays China’s most excellent cultural products and cultural achievements. It is a platform for displaying China’s cultural industries. With most completed products and largest scale, ICIF is an ideal channel for you to get to know China’s cultural development and cultural market, and also for exchanging cultural technology and information. By providing suppliers to the buyers, ICIF has established a platform for quicker, more convenient and lower-cost purchasing. It is an excellent platform for the worldwide cultural industries to exchange and cooperate.

        The 4th ICIF will be held in Shenzhen from May 16th to 19th, 2008. It will follow the rules of the market economy and the development of the cultural industries, perfect the exhibition structure, improve the service, strengthen the nation-standard status, enhance the worldwide influence, and foster the consciousness on high quality. Aiming at building a platform of inspecting and promoting China’s cultural industries development, introducing Chinese culture to the world, and providing service for the cultural development of Mid and West China, the 4th ICIF will emphasize on its authoritativeness and influence, focus on the core contents of the cultural industries, promote and cultivate the competitive and large-scaled cultural enterprises and corporations, show the features of the development of cultural industries and exhibition industry, and the market needs. Through summing up the experiences, ICIF will have innovation in the exhibition system, the contents, the marketing patterns, the service and the management, and work hard to establish a top brand in China’s exhibition industry on cultures.