Establishment of China's National Creative Cluster
The ICIA is engaged strategic cooperation with China's Hi-Tech Fashion Creation Investment Developing Company to establish China's National Creative Cluster and to develop its hub, the China Creative Industry Park, in Beijing (Songzhuang). This National Fashion Creative Centre will provide for continuing investment, and development initiatives to establish fashion as its main creative theme.
China HI-TECH Group is a state-owned large enterprise group supervised by SASAC, formed from subsidiary companies of the previous Ministry of Textile Industry, which has built core businesses in several industries including machinery, automobile, textile, clothing, investment, and financial services after years’ rapid development. Following the economic development trend, China HI-TECH Group HI-TECH FASHION CREATION INVESTMENT DEVELOPING CO.,LTD, founded by China HI-TECH Group, will make an important strategic product restructuring initiative, focusing on the development of fashion creative industry, through establishing NCC (National Creative Cluster).
Beijing, as the country's political, cultural, technological, educational centre has a rich cultural heritage and skilled human resources for fashion and the creative industries. It therefore provides fertile ground for these developments. Beijing is a National Capital, and aims to be one of the world’s foremost cultural cities and attractive places to live and work.
Text of The Strategic Cooperation agreement :
"In the context of promoting cultural creative industry by China’s government, Hi-tech Fashion Creation Investment Developing Co Ltd has established NCC (National Creative Cluster), as the pioneer in national-level fashion creative industry. NCC will form a strategic collaboration with ICIA (International Creative Industries Alliance) through different levels of interaction and coordination, in order to promote the sustainable development of international creative industry. Through several rounds of dialogue, both parties have come to agreement as follows:
NCC and ICIA will co-create and set the industry standard for China’s fashion creative industry.
Both parties will collaborate proactively and utilize resources from each party, in order to promote China’s fashion creative clusters worldwide, and establish world famous “Created in China” brand.
ICIA will facilitate worldwide fashion creative clusters to collaborate with NCC, and gain access and base in NCC, establishing NCC as the sixth fashion capital alongside Paris, Milan, New York, London and Tokyo.
Both NCC and ICIA will actively promote the strategic collaboration among the Ministry of Culture of People’s Republic of China, China Hi-tech Group Corporation, and European Union Commission. These joint efforts will help NCC’s “New Standard for China’s Fashion Creative Industry” to gain international recognition and application enhancing “fashion creative industry”
In order to guarantee the realization of the tasks mentioned above, ICIA will introduce the EU collaborative research project CADIC (Cross-enterprise Assessment and Development for Intellectual Capital) system to China, taking NCC’s context into account. Both parties will establish 'Research Centre of Standard Setting for Fashion Creative Industry'
In order to make NCC as the ideal collaborative base for international creative industry and promote Beijing as international fashion capital, let’s make it happen together! "
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