Five unique features of the Seventh China Arts Festival
Updated: 2004-09-27

The Seventh China Arts Festival that shows the top level of national art achievements concluded in Shaoxing on September 26, which has the following five unique characteristics.

** A national art festival with the most performances

The Seventh China Arts Festival witnessed the most performances, including 102 performances of 51 candidate plays for the Wenhua Award, 130 performances of invited programs from foreign countries, and Hangkong, Macao, and Taiwan as well as other provinces of the countries, more than 600 mass cultural activities and 24 exhibitions, etc.

** A national art festival with the richest contents

The performances of the Seventh China Arts Festival are of great variety, including traditional opera, music, dance and Quyi. The performing groups are from different places, such as art groups from six foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, etc. It also invited guests from 39 foreign countries to participate in the arts festival.

** A national art festival with the top standard

Chinese President Hu Jintao sent a letter of congratulation to the Seventh China Arts Festival on the day of the opening ceremony. It is the first time that the top leader sends a congratulatory letter to the arts festival. The Wenhua Award and the Stars Award become the main activities of the arts festival, which lifts the authority and influence of the arts festival.

** A national art festival with the most participators

More than 1,000,000 audiences, 15,000 actors, 200 media and 500 reporters participated in the arts festival.

** A national art festival with the up-to-date mechanism

The Seventh China Arts Festival tried its best to adopt the mechanism of market operation. It not only combined the Wenhua Award with the Award of China Arts Festival, but also combined the Stars Award with the Dandelion Award. It also set up the Most-Popular Programs Award and Most-Popular Actors Award. They collected more than 50 million yuan via social channels. The organizing committee sold tickets via various channels such as the Internet and telephone, etc.