Foreword

The year of 2018 has witnessed further reform and reorganization of Chinese State organs，so the overall planning of the cultural undertaking，cultural industry and tourism resources will facilitate the culture-tourism integration，meanwhile enhancing competitiveness of the cultural creative industry. Tourism servers as an important channel of cultural communication and culture is a source of high quality tourism，so the integration of both areas can give tourism more cultural implication and promote its upgrading. As the Minister of Culture and Tourism is formed，an age of integrated development of cultural and tourism has already been unveiled and the cultural tourism will become an real pillar industry for the country's economy and social development.

Following the reform of state organs，a rich body of policies regarding to boosting development and consumption and regulating the market were introduced in 2018，which confirmed the position of all-for-one tourism，formulated the standards in terms of capital，management and service of tourism，defined the new points of growth and it paths of upgrading the cultural tourism，rectified nonstandard market of film and television industry，strengthened the traditional culture's protection and inheritance，improved the cultural relics’protection and activation. Tourism has become a major force of revitalizing rural area. During the process of transformation and upgrading，cultural tourism is also taking on tasks of serving the country's strategy，upgrading the level of cultural openness and enhancing Chinese soft power. The top design of cultural exchange and cooperation is increasingly improving，not only helping Chinese culture go global，bust also opening up a broad prospect for the creative industry.

With the theme of“Promoting development of the creative industry by integrating culture and tourism”，The Chinese Creative Industries Report 2019 concluded the overall situation and trend of the creative industry nationwide by ex-plored several cities’development，teamed up 17 representative cities to take part in writing. The report is focused on these cities’effort on leading the development of the creative industry via combining the tourism and culture and achieving upgrading industry upgrading and urban renewal. It elaborates the status quo of the creative industries in these cities，makes an analysis of their patterns of culturetourism integration，sums up the successful experiences of integration，concludes their problems and weakness，and explores the solution and development directions.

Following the previous framework，the Chinese Creative Industries Report 2019 consists of three major parts：The Part I is Chapter 1，the overview about rapid development of the culture-tourism integration of Chinese creative industry，which offers a comprehensive description of every aspects of Chinese creative industry，including its development environment，strategic plan，culture-tourism integration，cultural consumption and market regulation，cultural inheritance and protection，efforts and situation of cultural exchanges. The Part II，from Chapter 2 to Chapter 18，describes the culture-tourism development of 17 cities，including Beijing，Tianjin，Shijiazhuang，Taiyuan，Shenyang，Harbin，Changzhou，Yangzhou，Hangzhou，Qingdao，Zhengzhou，Wuhan，Danzhou，Guiyang，Xi’an，Xining，and Macao. The Part III is Chapter 19，which provides summaries and comments on the development of the creative industry in these cites and their patterns and experiences on the culture-tourism integration.

Has observed the Chinese creative industry consecutively for 14 years，the Chinese Creative Industries Report has rather completely recorded a history of the creative industry in the major cities of China. Profound changes have happened to this industry in 14 years，both at home and aboard. And we will always has a lot to do and a long way to. With the support of contributors around the country and trust of our readers，we will still stick to this undertaking. We would like to express our gratitude to all experts from every city and personnel of the related government departments who have contributed to this report.

Finally，we would like to thank the Beijing Science and Technology Strategy Consulting Centre（a. k. a BJAST Think-Tank）for its support to this work. As an important carrier of products from BJAST Think-Tank，the Chinese Creative Industries Report 2019 will enrich the contents and forms of BJAST Think-Tank.