Guangzhou will host China's top artistic event, the 9th China Arts Festival in May 2010. The China Arts Festival is held once every three years and is considered "The Olympics of National Culture and the National Games for Chinese Arts". The preceding eight sessions were all hosted by provinces or municipalities directly under the Central Government. This was the first time to undertake the festival under the name of a vice-provincial capital city. It was also the result of a competition among the applying cities of Beijing, Shanghai and other cities.
The 9th China Arts Festival was preliminarily determined to open for 15 days in May 2010. The 9th China Arts Festival planned to invite 16,000 honorable guests from domestic theaters and groups, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Groups as well as foreign sister cities.
The Art Festival would set up four awards, including the 14th "Grand Cultural Award" and "Cultural Award", the first "Overseas Cultural Award", the 15th "Grand Celebrities Awards" and "Celebrities Awards" and "China's Top Performance Brand Award".
The event included four sections. The first section is to perform the professional artistic activities to choose through public appraisal the 14th Cultural Award, including inviting Chinese groups from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas to participate in the performance and appraisal and inviting four classic programs from Italy, the US, India and Russia for exchange. The second section was to organize 180 sizable mass plaza interactive performances. The third section was to hold a unified exhibition of national painting institutes, hold various Lingnan fine arts works exhibitions, youth fine art works exhibition and various exhibitions and related cultural activities. The fourth section was to solicit from the nation the mascots, posters, special marks and propaganda wordings.
Source: english.gz.gov.cn
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