On June 7, as a key project of the 2022 foreign cultural trade "Thousands of Sails to Sea" action plan, the "International Book Copyright Supermarket" Chinese and foreign publishing exchange meeting officially set sail. More than 10 participants from countries along the "Belt and Road" such as Thailand and Malaysia Publishing institutions traveled across the ocean and gathered in the Xiamen Free Trade Zone for a copyright agreement.
The National Cultural Export base in the Xiamen Free Trade Zone is the first batch of national cultural export bases in the country and the only national cultural export base in Fujian Province. Since it was approved in 2018, the base has given full play to the functional advantages of "bonded +", "finance +" Internet + and the policy advantages of special customs supervision areas in foreign cultural trade to promote the innovation and development of cultural bonded business forms, and to promote cross-strait cultural exchange models and development. Continued breakthroughs in digital trade and other aspects. As of April 2023, there are a total of 2,718 registered cultural enterprises in the area, with a total registered capital of 16.52 billion yuan.
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More than 20 domestic and overseas cultural institutions on-site docking
The theme of this Chinese and foreign publishing docking exchange meeting is "commercial 'coming in', copyright 'going out'", and invited Thai Publishers and Booksellers Association, AMARIN Publishing Group, Bell Publishing House, Machinery Industry Press, Hainan Publishing House More than 20 cultural institutions related to copyright content creation, channel dissemination, printing and distribution at home and abroad gathered together to carry out exchange activities such as publishing cooperation signing, advanced experience sharing, and "one-to-one" copyright docking.
Cai Suda, chairman of the Thai Publishers and Booksellers Association, introduced the development of Thailand's publishing industry in recent years. She analyzed that Thailand's publishing industry is facing a severe situation of shrinking year by year, but some literary works and other IPs authorized by China have reaped good results in Thailand. It is hoped that through this event, we can learn from the new formats and good experience of Chinese publishing industry, and promote the overall recovery of the Thai market as soon as possible.
"China publishes a wide range of content, a large market, and strong resilience. In 2021, China will publish 225,000 new books, and realize book revenue of 108.2 billion yuan, which has fully exceeded the level of the same period before the epidemic in 2019." Chairman and CEO of Xiamen Watu Group Manager Shen Xianyang said that he looks forward to making good use of both domestic and international resources and actively developing two markets.
The copyright matchmaking meeting is the highlight of this event. The organizing committee accurately matched the copyright needs of all parties involved, relying on the Chinese-Thai and Chinese-English multilingual translation support of Huaqiao University’s language service export base, carried out 4 rounds of 45 Chinese-foreign "one-to-one" copyright docking negotiations, and preliminary statistics reached physical books, More than 100 copyright cooperation intentions in audiobooks, cultural IP, printing services and other fields.
As the only animation IP company in this docking delegation, Seventh Impression Culture Media (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. has gained a lot.