【News】Seminar on “Cultural Creative Industry, Cultural Consumption and Cultural Governance” Held

On the afternoon of March 29, 2015, RUC NADS Center for Research on Social System Engineering hosted the seminar on “Cultural Creative Industry, Cultural Consumption and Cultural Governance”. As one of the activity series of RUC NADS on public policy comments, the seminar received support from the magazine of Beijing Culture Creativity and numerous media.

Jin Yuanpu, RUC NADS researcher and Professor of the School of Liberal Arts delivered a report on the “Era of Maker: Internet Plus and the Cultural Creative Industry”. Jin also said that Internet-related cultural creative industries have become leading, high-end, core, forerunner and pillar industries that are represented by big data, smart city, mobile network and we media and have established new business types, cool features and integrative thinking. New technologies have changed the social, economic and cultural ecology and the way people live.

Lin Jian, researcher at RUC NADS and Executive Deputy Director of the Center for Research on Social System Engineering, delivered a report on “Status and Function of Cultural Governance in State Governance System”, analyzing the connotation and features of cultural governance, the relationship between cultural governance and other elements in the state governance system, the significance of cultural governance and its means by employing social system engineering theory and methodology.

Huang Shunji, Honorary Professor (Grade I) of RUC and Director of the Academic Committee of the Center for Research on Social System Engineering, Li Deshun, Professor of the Faculty of Humanities at China University of Political Science and Law, Wei Pengju, Dean and Professor of the Culture Economics Institute at the Central University of Finance and Economics, and Fan Yugang, Professor of the Faculty of Humanities at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC, commented on the reports and expressed their own insights.

Chen Qiuhuai, Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Qianxian Monthly of Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Chief Editor for Beijing Culture Creativity, addressed the seminar. Other attendees included RUC NADS researchers Chen Yu, Miao Dongsheng, Ouyang Zhiyuan, Zuo Meiyun, Wang Mingming, Wang Dongsheng and Chen Jinsong; Prof. Feng Jingyuan at the School of Marxism Studies of RUC; Prof. Liu Zhonglin at the University of Science and Technology of China; Prof. Wang Zhikang at Sun Yat-sen University; Prof. Wang Hongbo at Xi’an Jiaotong University; Prof. Tian Pengying at Northeastern University; Prof. Yang Aihua at Beihang University; Prof. Wang Peiqiong at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Prof. Xing Dongfeng at Ehime University of Japan; Chang Yuan, researcher at China Aerospace Laboratory of Social System Engineering; Liu Ying, Secretary-General of Beijing Association for Digital Science and Technology Popularization; Peng Ling with the Research Center for Chinese Ancient Books under the Books and Periodicals Commission of Collection of China Association of Collectors; Liu Jie with the Chinese Public Administration Society; Zhu Hongjun with the Association for Yan Huang Culture of China and professionals from some ten media organizations. They had some heated discussions.

The core of the cultural creative industry is creativity. It stresses the development and the intellectual property marketing of certain host culture or cultural factor through technological, creative and industrialized means. Cultural consumption is the motive power in driving the whole cultural industry towards a positive development cycle. Cultural governance is a vital part of the state governance system and includes governance of culture and governance by culture.

Media present include People’s Tribune, Outlook Weekly, Guangming Daily, Study Times, and cntheory.com, Chinese Social Sciences Today, Workers’ Daily, Qianxian Monthly, Beijing Culture Creativity and Creativity.

Scholars from such areas as culturology, literature, information science, system science and philosophy, the cultural department and media professionals had dialogues with one another, analyzed relevant cultural policies and discussed the promotion of public entrepreneurship, mass innovation and makerspace expansion, the prosperous development of cultural causes and industries and a more modern cultural governance system, rendering some invaluable insights.

(By Center for Research on Social System Engineering, NADS)