As one of the first nationally recognized historical and cultural cities in the country, the Quanzhou government attaches great importance to its cultural development, according to local officials from the port city in southeastern Fujian province. 

In recent years, it has vigorously promoted the development of the sector and the total value-added of the cultural industry in the city has been among the top in the province since 2012. 

For many years, the cultural industry of Quanzhou has maintained a good development momentum. In 2018, the city's main business income from the cultural industry reached 173.9 billion yuan ($25.03 million). 

Officials said when the final figures are in, it is expected that the city’s main business income from cultural industries in 2019 will have increased by more than 20 percent on the previous year.

They said the city government will continue to take active and effective measures to promote the transformation and upgrading of the cultural and creative industry. It will strive to make it a pillar industry in Quanzhou during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (put in the dates please). 

The government has issued five comprehensive policies, including Several Measures to Further Promote the Development of the Cultural Industry and nine  industry policies, such as Nine Measures to Promote the Development of the City's Industrial Design Industry.  

To support the development of the cultural industry, Quanzhou has also mapped out a path for the transformation and upgrading of related industries and provided financial support for those industries. 

Currently, there are 17 municipal-level cultural industrial parks in operation in Quanzhou, including three key provincial key parks – among them Huian Carving Art Park and Hongshan Cultural and Creative Park. 

Attracted by all this activity, some 220 cultural companies with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan have settled in the city. 

"As the backbone of industrial development, local cultural industrial parks and cultural enterprises shoulder the responsibility of promoting the structural reform of the cultural industry and the industrial transformation and upgrading,” according to one official from the municipal Cultural Reform Office. 

Quanzhou has now cultivated a number of cultural companies with strong competitiveness and independent innovation capabilities. 

To date, there are 185 municipal-level cultural industry demonstration bases in Quanzhou, including one at the national level and 26 at the provincial level.