The Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation has four major functions: (1) Leading Demonstration Function: By funding and supporting outstanding cultural and artistic projects, it embodies the leading demonstration role of advanced culture.
With the increase of social wealth and the expansion of China's opening up to the outside world, there are more and more various cultural funds and foundations in society, and their areas of involvement will become wider and wider, becoming an active field of cultural investment and financing.
The foundation will be different from other public welfare, private, and professional foundations in society. It will play a leading and exemplary role with a clear political orientation, positive social benefits, extensive public welfare services, and international operating standards.
(2) The resource absorption function collects dispersed funds and resources in society that intend to support culture through fair, just and open foundation operations, effectively invests them in the development of cultural undertakings, and makes contributions to the development of national culture and human progress.
Positive contribution.
Especially in an international metropolis like Shanghai, intensive capital and asset flows are surging. Many individuals and institutions also have a strong desire to fund cultural development, but they are concerned about policy risks, operational errors and many other issues.
Through the operation of the foundation, dispersed funds can exert a scale effect, so that the risks of funding can be effectively avoided and resolved, and the good wishes of funders to support cultural development can be realized.
(3) Encourage innovative functions to effectively promote the growth of new cultural talents through funding and support for original, innovative, and experimental projects, and attract more excellent cultural projects to the metropolitan agglomeration centered on Shanghai.
The development of world-class metropolises proves that the cultural strength of a city depends not only on the number of cultural talents it attracts, but also on the energy to promote originality.
So far, the large-scale cultural and art awards established in Shanghai, such as the Shanghai Literature and Art Award, Baosteel High Art Award, etc., mainly focus on selecting outstanding works and artists with domestic and foreign influence. What Shanghai needs more urgently is to implement new cultural and artistic talents.
More powerful support.
By holding high the banner of encouraging innovation and cultivating new talents, the foundation will highlight its own distinctive characteristics and provide more cultural resources for the great revitalization of the Chinese nation.
(4) Expand the exchange function to promote cultural exchanges between Shanghai and the entire Yangtze River Delta and at home and abroad, and absorb the latest achievements in human cultural development.
The scope of the foundation's fundraising and cultural funding will be based in Shanghai, but will not be limited to Shanghai, but will gradually expand to the entire Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, becoming an inspiring cultural banner at the intersection of the river and the sea.
With the great process of China's modernization in the 21st century, a large Shanghai urban agglomeration includes 15 large, medium and small cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, stretching 300 kilometers vertically and horizontally, accounting for more than 15% of the country's GDP, ranking first in China and sixth in the world.
is emerging.
Through the establishment of the foundation, it will more effectively absorb funds and resources from the Yangtze River Delta and promote cultural collaboration, integration and innovation in the Yangtze River Delta. At the same time, through project cooperation, mutual entrustment and cross-funding with overseas cultural foundations, it will promote the culture of Shanghai
Go global, participate in international competition and exchanges, and coexist and win with the outstanding cultural achievements of various countries.
In recent years, the foundation has also hosted a series of large-scale cultural exchange activities with significant national influence in Shanghai and even overseas.
Such as the annual Shanghai Art Fair, "Shanghai Electronic Arts Festival", etc.
Since March 2003, the Association has carried out major reforms, striving to establish a standardized funding model and operating mechanism that is in line with international practice.
After comprehensive adjustment and reform, the Association accepted the government's entrustment and carried out funding, awards, support loans and (film and television) investment (funding) for public welfare cultural projects for the whole society in accordance with the principles of fairness, justice, openness and standardization.
With its unique advantages, the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation has established good cooperative relationships with many cultural institutions at home and abroad, and has established extensive and close ties with Shanghai news, enterprises, culture and art and other social sectors, which has a significant influence at home and abroad.