Foreword

The year 2022 is a key year for the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan，the year for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China，and an important year for China to embark on a new journey to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and march toward the second centenary Goal.In 2022，China's cultural and creative industries in the complex environment has been moving forward despite twists and turns，with industry rescue and industrial transformation in parallel.The cultural and creative industries has maintained steady growth，and the development of new cultural business industries has continued to become more resilient.

With the release of The Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization and Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization and the official establishment of the National Administration for Rural Revitalization，the focus of China's rural work has shifted from targeted poverty alleviation to rural revitalization，and the top priority of rural revitalization lies in industrial revitalization.The Opinion on 2022 Key Work of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization put forward“start the cultural industries empowering rural revitalization plan”，to fully implement the strategy of rejuvenating rural，Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other five departments jointly issued The Opinion on Promoting Cultural Industries’Empowerment of Rural Revitalization，which has been clear about overall requirements and development goals for the cultural industries’empowerment of rural revitalization，and puts forward eight priority areas.This document has provided strong policy guarantee for the cultural industries’empowerment of rural revitalization.

The Chinese Creative Industries Report（2023）is themed with“Cultural Creativity Empowers Rural Revitalization”.The general report，together with reports from 18 cities，namely Beijing，Tianjin，Shijiazhuang，Chengde，Changzhou，Yangzhou，Hangzhou，Ningbo，Nanchang，Fuzhou，Qingdao，Wuhan，Guangzhou，Chongqing，Guiyang，Lhasa，Xi'an，Xining，reveal the overall development of the cultural industries of the whole country.The report focuses on how cities promote cultural creativity to empower rural revitalization through highlighting local characteristics，activating rural cultural resources，and integrating rural cultural creativity into rural agricultural production activities.The report also elaborate the development status，innovation modes and characteristics of creative industries in these cities，and summarize the successful experience of how cultural creativity has empowered rural revitalization.After finding out problems and shortcomings of culture industries of these cities，solutions and future development directions have been explored under the current domestic and international circumstances.

Creative industries，after two years of impact of the epidemic and facing a more complex and volatile domestic and international situation，has been taking the new historical role in rural revitalization gradually since 2022.The Chinese Creative Industries Report has been tracking the development of Chinese creative industries for 18 consecutive years，offering detailed records of the development history of creative industries in major cities in China.Hereby，we would like to express heartfelt gratitude to the experts，scholars and of ficials from relevant governmental departments and associations.We also thank Beijing Academy of Science and Technology for consistent support for the compilation of Chinese Creative Industries Report.As an important carrier of think tank products，this blue book will further enrich the content and form of the Think Tank achievements.