On July 23, the "2019 The 2nd World Culture Capitals - Tianfu Symposium" 
organized by the Chengdu Media Group opened in Chengdu, China. At the event, 
the Chengdu Media Group announced the Tianfu Smart Media City project, which 
endeavors to elevate Chengdu into the top echelon as a world-class intelligent 
media city of the future.

It has been understood that the project has selected the Singapore-Sichuan 
Hi-tech Innovation Park in the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone as 
its site, construction will be completed in three phases, and development will 
take place in stages over the course of three to five years. The project will 
focus on integration, join hands with Xinhua Net, people.com.cn and other 
Chinese central media outlets, generate synergy between districts and counties, 
team up with international broadcasting organizations, and create a cluster 
with immense communication capacity across all media. At the same time, 
cutting-edge technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud 
computing will be introduced, media content production process will be upgraded 
and renewed, and a smart industrial park management system will be built.

In terms of functional layout, the Tianfu Smart Media City plans to create a 
Smart Media Integrated Development Center, and at present there are a plethora 
of support projects including the Chengdu Media Group Smart Media Center, 
Xinhua Net AI Rendered Anchor and China Central Television Creative Video 
Center. Furthermore, the three "boosters" of Smart Science and Technology 
Leading Platform, Industrial Integration Support Platform and Intelligent 
Management Service Platform will be introduced in order to realize the 
integration and sharing of contents across all media and the mutual empowerment 
of ecologies across the industry.

At the symposium's operning ceremony, well-known global market research firm 
Nielsen Company debuted its Survey Report on "Culture and Creativity Charismas 
of the World's New-growth Cities". To measure a city's charms in culture and 
creativity, said report constructed a culture and creativity assessment 
indicator system based on the six dimensions of city economy, city consumption 
power, cultural soft power, creativity leadership, attractiveness to human 
resources and international influence.

Chengdu was one of the cities evaluated, and its scores in indicators like 
cultural soft power and international influence received relatively high marks. 
In the words of Kelvin Watt, the President of Nielsen Sports and Cultural 
Entertainment, "there are reasons to believe that in the next few years Chengdu 
will emerge as one of the world's fastest-developing cities".

Source: The Chengdu Media Group