Shanghai Free Trade Zone System Innovation and Activating Cultural Trade

Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, June 25 (Reporters He Xinrong and Yang Youzong) traded from cultural relics art to digital cultural and creative, and the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Bonded Area exerted the functions of special customs regulatory areas, and continued to increase the cultural trade and cultural industries. From January to May this year, more than 1,800 cultural relics and artworks were completed, with a total value of more than 3 billion yuan.

The Shanghai Free Trade Zone Bonded Area is one of the earliest regions to explore art transactions and cultural trade in China. As the main body of the cultural sector of the bonded area, Hu Huanzhong, chairman of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone International Cultural Investment Development Co., Ltd., said that through the continuous deepening measures of art trade, the value of art in and out of the art zone from 2013 to the present has accumulated cumulative value -in -value goods value has already been accumulated. More than 70 billion yuan, of which the value of art in and out of 2021 exceeded 17.5 billion yuan, becoming a new historical high. "During the epidemic, the operator of the left -behind bonded warehouse completed the online inspection of more than 400 cultural relics worth more than 77 million US dollars under the remote guidance of the cultural relics department, so that they could still be sent to auction houses and art institutions during the epidemic period. And the collector's hands. "

A good policy environment and one -stop service have attracted many cultural art companies to settle. Recently, Sotheby's auction houses have set up Sotential (Shanghai) e -commerce Co., Ltd. in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Bonded Area, which clearly settled the Chinese district headquarters in Shanghai. Qian Jin, a senior director of Sotheby's Sotheby's, said that Sotheby's will create more opportunities after settling the free trade zone, so that domestic collectors and art enthusiasts can contact first -class art collections at home and abroad without going abroad.

"After settling in the Free Trade Zone, we will carry out more in -depth cooperation with the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Wendou Company to promote the prosperity and development of the Shanghai art market. At the same time, it is based on Shanghai to form a business linkage in the Yangtze River Delta region." China Guardian Hu Yanyan, president of International Auction Co., Ltd. said.

In addition to cultural relics and art transactions, the bonded area of ​​the Shanghai Free Trade Zone has continuously developed the "new space" of the cultural industry. In March of this year, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Wendou Company and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra cooperated to release the "China Earlier Symphony Records". Resources are presented in a more young and lively way.

【Edit: Jiang Yuwei】

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