Cultural industry in Shenzhen has become the “4th Polar industry” full of vigor and vitality. At present Shenzhen has formed a large batch of backbone cultural industry, such as, its new publication industry, advertising industry, cultural product manufacturing industry, Cultural and attainment industry, Sports industry, cultural and tourism industry and broadcasting and TV industry, including printing, media and cultural and tourism industry, taking a leading position nationwide.
○ Cultural market
Shenzhen has 480 song and dancing amusement places and 134 game and amusement places. And there are nearly 5000 cultural market business operating companies which employ more than 100,000 people with the total output of approximately 20 billion RMB yuan, so Shenzhen performance companies try hard to build their brand image.
○Dafen Oil Paining Village
This village is under the jurisdiction of Buji Street Office of Longgang District, covering a total area of 4 square kilometers. In 1989 Mr. Huang Jiang , a Hong Kong painting collector and merchant took a dozen painting workers to settle down by renting the civil residential houses to engage in mass production and sales and distribution of the oil paintings, thus attracting many different artists, masters or painters. Now there are 305 calligraphy and painting, arts and crafts stores with more than 3000 people, including artists, painters, apprentices, are engaged in oil painting production, and there are 700 galleries, oil painting workshops and personal oil painting studios of all kinds. In 2006 the annual sales turnover broke the record and continued to break through the upper limit of 100 million RMB yuan.
○ Printing Industry
Shenzhen is the most important printing industrial base and occupies a leading position in the same industry nationwide, particularly in terms of the overall technical design level, production scale and strength, printing equipment and technology enterprise management and production quality and many other indicators.
There are 1580-odd printing enterprise in the whole city employing nearly 120000 workers with the total registered capital of more than 0.7 million RMB yuan. Shenzhen Artron Color Printing Co Ltd has won the gold award “Benny Award”， well reputed as “Oscar” in the world printing industry.