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Now, China's venture capital market has gradually moved from the "big gold rush" era of wild growth to the "big alchemy" era of intensive cultivation. The Cultural and Creative Alchemy Room has prepared a wealth of information for everyone to choose from for the "alchemy masters" in the new era.
The Cultural and Creative Alchemy Room includes three sub-rooms: "Cultural and Creative View Local", "Cultural and Creative Investment and Financing" and "Cultural and Creative View World", which respectively place important local information and related policies in Chengdu every week, investment and financing profile of the national cultural and creative industry, and important policy guidance for the cultural and creative industry.
Issue 138 | 2022.12.19-2022.12.25
Cultural and creative local
Build an internationally influential museum city by 2035, Chengdu has issued implementation measures
On the 29th, the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Television and Tourism issued the "Notice on Issuing the Implementation Measures for Deepening the Reform and Development of Museums in Chengdu", and the measures plan the blueprint for the development of Chengdu Museums: Chengdu will build a high-level "Museum City" and a pilot area for museum development by 2025, and museums of different regions, levels, attributes and types will be fully developed. The "City of Museums" and a strong museum city with international influence will be built in 2035, with 20 museums per million people.
In addition, Chengdu will promote the construction of the "One County, One Museum" project to achieve that each district (city) and county has more than one comprehensive state-owned museum. All districts (cities) and counties have comprehensively promoted the upgrading of various local museums, and their state-owned museums have met the national third-level museum standards and above.
Chengdu issues the first "Metaverse" policy document, and the scale of related industries in the Metaverse will reach 150 billion yuan
The Office of the Chengdu New Economic Development Leading Group recently issued the "Chengdu Metacosmic Industry Development Action Plan (2022-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"). This "Action Plan" is Chengdu's first policy document focusing on the metaverse.
The Action Plan proposes that by 2025, Chengdu's meta-universe industrial system will take shape, and the scale of meta-universe-related industries will reach 150 billion yuan. Build a complete Chengdu Metaverse industrial chain, study and master a number of core technologies, introduce and cultivate a number of high-quality enterprises, integrate and create a number of characteristic application scenarios, develop and reserve a number of urban IPs, form a leading and driving role in industrial transformation and upgrading and urban governance, and promote the realization of the value of the Metaverse promoting real through virtuality and virtuality, improve the production efficiency of the real economy, and meet the people's needs for a better life.
Sichuan Provincial Cultural and Art Center holds an audition concert, Chengdu will add another cultural landmark
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News, on the evening of December 26, the symphony concert "The Land of China is So Beautiful" created by the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra completed its audition at the Sichuan Provincial Cultural and Art Center, marking that another cultural landmark in Chengdu will be opened to the public soon. It is reported that the Sichuan Provincial Cultural and Art Center construction project covers an area of 120 mu and has a construction area of 96,649 square meters. Buildings 1 and 3 have been successfully completed and will be fully delivered and put into use in July next year.
Picture source: Chengdu Daily Jinguan
Cultural and Venture Capital Financing
According to IT Orange data, from December 19 to December 25, a total of 73 investment and financing-related incidents occurred in China.
Among the "first-tier cities", Shanghai (16 cases) and Beijing (15 cases) have led the number of investment and financing related events, with Shenzhen having 8 cases and Guangzhou occupying 3 seats. Among the "new first-tier cities", Hangzhou and Suzhou lead the way, with 5 and 4 respectively, and 2 cases in Chengdu, Nanjing, Qingdao and Xiamen.
Table data source: IT Orange, compiled by reporters from Meike
Among the 73 investment and financing related events last week, the cultural and creative field accounted for 10.
In terms of industry distribution, e-commerce retail accounts for 40%, and there are 2 cases in the entertainment and media industry, while the rest are distributed in local life, metaverse, social network and blockchain industries. In terms of urban distribution, there are 2 cases in Hangzhou and Shenzhen, and 1 case in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Changsha and Jiaxing.
Table data source: IT Orange, compiled by reporters from Meike
Zhejiang Entertainment Bobang received tens of millions of Pre-A round investment
According to China Radio International Technology, recently, the Internet celebrity MCN entrepreneurship and innovation service platform Zhejiang Yubobang Group completed tens of millions of Pre-A round investments from A-share listed group Pingzhi Information Co., Ltd., national high-tech enterprise Liwan Network, and emerging cultural industry investment group Hubei Thirteen Prefecture Group. The funds raised this time will be used to further build the short, medium and long-term monetization capabilities of partners who officially launch the "Hundred Cities Joint Venture Takeoff Plan" of the Internet celebrity MCN.
The main initiator of Zhejiang Entertainment Broadcasting Gang Hangzhou Liwan Network was established in April 2017. It mainly adopts the cutting-edge strategy of self-media traffic + IP incubation. It is reported that in the three years from 2018 to 2020, Liwan Network has invested more than 20 million in short video and live broadcast business innovation. Among them, the short videos operated by MCN have accumulated over 10 billion views in Tencent Weishi and Tencent Hits. The first short drama "Mr. Huo, you are my insincere" produced and released by the Kuaishou Xingmang Project has been viewed over 100 million times.
The Yuan Universe Open Platform "Dayou" has carried out a new round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, and Xiaomi Lianchuang has increased its investment
Recently, the Metaverse Open Platform "Dayou" completed a new round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. Previously, Dayou has completed tens of millions of seed and angel round financing, co-founded by Xiaomiinvest. In this round of financing, new investors joined the lineup, and the original shareholder Xiaomi Lianchuang investors all increased their investments.
It is reported that Dayou is a meta-universe digital space service provider, focusing on creating meta-universe space scenes and productizing digital space scenes. It is mainly aimed at brand and artistic IP to create meta-universe spaces and realize meta-universe marketing. By connecting online and offline and connecting people and things, it can not only realize the "cloud viewing" of art institutions, the "cloud shopping" of commercial real estate, and the "cloud travel" of scenic spots, but also deeply combine it with brands, IPs, and artists to customize the exclusive meta-universe digital space.
Picture source: Dayu Art
Cultural Creative Views the World
More than 500 games in 2022 were approved for version numbers, Tencent's "Pokemon Collection" and others are listed
On December 28, the State Administration of Press and Publication released the approval information for domestic online games in December, with a total of 84 games being approved. This is the 7th batch of domestic online games that have obtained the approval of the version number in 2022.
It is worth noting that the State Administration of Press and Publication also released the approval information for imported online games in 2022, with a total of 44 imported games approved version numbers. Among them, Tencent's "Pokemon Assembly", Perfect World's "Double-Point Hospital", "Ode to Dreams", NetEase's "Fantasy Life" and "Raider: Legend of the Shadow", etc. are all listed.
Public information shows that the highly anticipated "Pokemon Assembly" is a team strategy battle game developed by Tianmei Studio Group and Pokemon Company. It is a side game of the eighth generation of the "Pokemon" series. It was previously released on the Nintendo Switch platform on July 21, 2021, and was launched on the iOS and Android platforms on September 22 of the same year. After the news was released, netizens "urged" the game to be online: "Hurry up." "Can you play it before the New Year?"
The 14th "Top 30 National Cultural Enterprises" Release
Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily and Economic Daily jointly released the list of the 14th "Top 30 Cultural Enterprises in the National" to the public. 30 companies including China Publishing Group Co., Ltd. and China Film Co., Ltd. have entered the ranks. The total main business income of this year's top 30 companies in 2021 was 528.8 billion yuan, net assets of 717 billion yuan, and net profit of 46.6 billion yuan. The main business income and net assets both hit record highs, an increase of 8.5 billion yuan and 17.8 billion yuan respectively over the previous session. The net assets exceeded the 700 billion yuan mark for the first time, especially the profitability was significantly improved, and the net profit increased by 18.3% compared with the previous session.
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television: Promote the prosperity and development of short drama creation
China Economic Network News, on the 26th, the official website of the State Administration of Radio and Television issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Prosperity and Development of Short Drama Creation" (hereinafter referred to as "short for "Opinions"). The opinions propose that short dramas are urgently needed by the people and conform to the development laws of high-quality spiritual and cultural products. They have become a new trend and should be vigorously advocated and promoted.
It is reported that short dramas usually adopt a series with a single episode of 15-30 minutes, a series of unit dramas with an episode of 6 episodes, a series of series with a 20 episodes, and a weekly drama. In order to promote the prosperity and development of short drama creation, the opinions put forward eight requirements, including: adhere to the correct creative direction, adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, strengthen the creation of short dramas with realistic themes, improve the innovation and creation ability of short dramas, cultivate and strengthen the main body of short drama creation, build a modern short drama communication pattern and market system, strengthen short drama literary and artistic commentary, and effectively perform management responsibilities.
