From April 19 to 22, 2019, the 8th China Suzhou Creative & Design Cultural 
Industry Expo was held at the Suzhou International Expo Center. With the theme 
of "Innovation for Quality of Life in Suzhou", this year's Expo set up 54 
special exhibition halls in four exhibition areas with nearly 600 companies, 
highlighting the new concept, new industries, new model, new ideas by 
integrated development of culture and tourism, and new ideas, new products, new 
achievements by combining traditional craftmanship with modern design.

With the integration development as the core, the 8th Expo highlighted new 
achievements and cases in the development of culture, tourism, sports, science 
and technology, agriculture and other related industries, and carefully 
organize professional forums such as "New Industries, New Economy -- the 
Integration of the Culture and Tourism" and "From Cultural Resources to 
Cultural IP -- Cultural Consumption", which have won praises from more than 300 
government delegations nationwide. In addition, the Expo further highlighted 
the professionalism of creative design, promoted the internationalization of 
exhibition activities, demonstrated the effectiveness of integrated 
development, created the "New Handicraft Movement" brand activities, and 
selected Top 10 product awards and Top 10 brand award. All kinds of high-level 
forum activities attracted the industry's experts to exchange the latest 
information and achievements of the creative design industry and provided 
"Suzhou Wisdom" to lead the development of creative design industry.

Since its founding in 2012, China Suzhou Creative & Design Cultural Industry 
Expo has attracted more than 1.1 million creative design professionals, 
cultural industry employees and townspeople to participate in the exhibition. 
More than 2,100 projects have been signed, with a total transaction volume of 
more than 31 billion yuan. It has become an important platform for creative 
talents and enterprises to communicate and cooperate. The 4-day-long Expo has 
attracted over 600 creative design companies from nearly 20 countries and 
regions including Japan, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Israel and the 
Netherlands. More than 10,000 exhibitors participated in the exhibition. More 
than 200,000 people visited the expo. The long-established Suzhou silk 
enterprise SaintJoy and Xiuniang Silk showcased the exquisite Chinese 
traditional costume cultural skills and the fruits of "dynamic protection" of 
Chinese silk culture.

Source: The Organizing Committee of the 8th China Suzhou Creative & Design 
Cultural Industry Expo