The Pingyao International Photography Festival has successfully gone through three editions since 2001. The festival has become increasingly more culturally focused, with such a high accessibility and so great a parti...The Pingyao International Photography Festival has successfully gone through three editions since 2001. The festival has become increasingly more culturally focused, with such a high accessibility and so great a participation that it has become another precious "cultural brand" following the designation of Pingyao as a World Cultural Heritage site. Against this unrivalled cultural backdrop, the Pingyao Party committee and Pingyao government, as well as cultural and publicity departments of the county, have over recent years conducted explorations and gained much practical experience---from the acceptance of the photography festival to the recognition of its cultural resources to the acknowledgement of the festival as an engine to push forward the development of its cultural industry and in turn promote its economic restructuring and inventiveness.展开更多
文摘The Pingyao International Photography Festival has successfully gone through three editions since 2001. The festival has become increasingly more culturally focused, with such a high accessibility and so great a participation that it has become another precious "cultural brand" following the designation of Pingyao as a World Cultural Heritage site. Against this unrivalled cultural backdrop, the Pingyao Party committee and Pingyao government, as well as cultural and publicity departments of the county, have over recent years conducted explorations and gained much practical experience---from the acceptance of the photography festival to the recognition of its cultural resources to the acknowledgement of the festival as an engine to push forward the development of its cultural industry and in turn promote its economic restructuring and inventiveness.
