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The unveiling ceremony of Shanghai International Cultural Relics and Art Trading Center was held today (2nd). Fang Shizhong, director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, said: We will accelerate the construction of an international cultural relics and artworks trading center, and enhance Shanghai's global resource allocation ability in the cultural relics and artworks market with more open policies, better services and a more active market.
Shanghai as the country's economic center and the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, cultural relics and art market has a good heritage advantage, with the improvement of people's living standards and the growing cultural demand, cultural relics and art trading activities show an unprecedented active development trend, is the development foundation for Shanghai to promote the construction of an international cultural relics and art trading center. In particular, since the launch of the pilot comprehensive reform of social relics management in November 2020, Shanghai has implemented a series of powerful measures in terms of management system, promotion mechanism, supervision system, service model, open path, policy system and other aspects of the management system, promotion mechanism, supervision system, service model, open path, and policy system around the construction of the "main front" of international participation in cultural relics and artworks, the "agglomeration place" of large-scale industries, the "preferred place" of market-oriented operation, and the "new highland" of reform integration, and handed over a brilliant report card.
The status of the global art scene is prominent
In 2021, the fourth CIIE set up a cultural relics and artworks exhibition area for the first time, with a total of 20 overseas institutions from 11 countries and regions such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and Hong Kong participating in the exhibition, with 178 declared exhibits and a total value of more than 2.3 billion yuan. In the end, 41 works from 9 institutions completed the transaction, with a total turnover of 760 million yuan. The classic works of Famous Chinese and foreign artists such as Fu Baoshi, Wu Guanzhong, Monet, Picasso, Dali, Chagall and Matisse have become the new highlights of this year's Ciie Expo. During the third Shanghai International Art Trade Month in November last year, Shanghai held 302 art activities, including 6 art fairs (including 120 overseas galleries with more than 6,000 exhibits), 132 art exhibitions, 46 exhibitions and sales activities, more than 420 domestic and foreign market entities participating in the transaction, and the cumulative value of art transactions reached 10.8 billion yuan.
The auction market continues to rise
According to preliminary statistics, there are currently 78 cultural relics auction enterprises in Shanghai, and the overall quantity and quality of market entities engaged in the auction of cultural relics and artworks rank among the forefront of the country. In 2021, Shanghai held a total of 1,004 auctions of cultural relics and artworks, with a total turnover of more than 6 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 25% year-on-year, accounting for about a quarter of the national market share. Among the 78 cultural relics auction enterprises in the city, more than 40 have carried out online cultural relics and art display and auction activities. In 2021, a total of 810 pure online cultural relics auctions were held, and 35 of them had a turnover of more than one million yuan.
International transactions bucked the trend
Shanghai is one of the ports with the largest number of cultural relics entry and exit audits in the country. In 2021, a total of 7309 cultural relics were handled, of which more than 2,000 were imported and exported through the Shanghai International Bonded Service Center for Cultural Relics and Artworks, with a value of 17 billion yuan, compared with 6 billion yuan in 2019 before the epidemic, an increase of nearly 3 times against the trend, and Shanghai has become the preferred port for well-known enterprises at home and abroad to handle the entry and exit of cultural relics and artworks.
With the in-depth advancement of the pilot comprehensive reform of social cultural relics management, a number of reform measures will integrate the system, exert force in the same direction, and resonate at the same frequency. Shanghai will rely on the Pudong New Area to build the institutional foundation, opening advantages, strategic position and resource endowments of the Socialist Modernization Leading Zone, and accelerate the construction of shanghai international cultural relics and artworks trading center. In 2022, Shanghai will focus on enhancing the global resource allocation capacity of the cultural relics and artworks market, and strive to achieve the "four new actions" with more open policies, better services and more active markets.
Further amplify the superposition effect of The policy advantages of Pudong's modernization leading area and the pilot project of comprehensive reform of social cultural relics, boldly break through and boldly try in terms of the management system, promotion mechanism, and open path of the cultural relics and artworks market, and create a world-class cultural relics and artworks distribution center. The most important measure this year is to accelerate the legislative work in the field of cultural relics and artworks in the Pudong New Area regulations, focus on key and difficult points, and plan to move quickly. It is reported that the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress has included this legislation in the official legislative project of 2022. With the formulation of regulations, a "Shanghai plan" of reform and innovation integration will be formed.
From this year onwards, from October 26 to 28 every year, the China International Cultural Relics and Artworks Trade Fair will be held at the Pudong Art Museum, a landmark art institution in Shanghai, and the only official international cultural relics and artworks trading brand will be launched in China. At the same time, this year will continue to be the only port for the duty-free entry of cultural relics and artworks into the Expo, and the fifth CIIE will create a special area for cultural relics and artworks for the first time, attract more international top art institutions to participate in the exhibition, and use "art empowerment" to amplify the spillover effect of the Expo. At present, these two major cultural relics fairs have been included in the Shanghai International Art Trade Month held in November every year, and the whole city on both sides of the Pujiang River has linked up to establish the "Shanghai time" for global cultural relics and art transactions.
The Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism will further promote the digital transformation of cities in the field of cultural relics and artworks and the reform of "decentralization and management services", strengthen coordination and system integration, build the country's first provincial-level cultural relics market credit supervision platform, carry out full-process information management of cultural relics transactions, and set up a red, white and black list of cultural relics auction enterprises. Through high-performance digital governance, we will effectively control the bottom line and safety, create a good ecology in which all parties participate together and work in the same direction, and establish a "Shanghai model" of market standard management.
On the basis of the establishment of the Shanghai International Art Trading Center in Xuhui District, we will promote the establishment of a professional Shanghai International Cultural Relics and Artworks Trading Center in Pudong New Area, create a functional platform for the display, trading, service and management of cultural relics and artworks at home and abroad, and gradually build a "full-cycle" service and "all-factor" ecology of the cultural relics and artworks market, so as to stimulate market vitality to the greatest extent. At the same time, we will actively lay out new tracks, innovate working mechanisms, optimize service processes, and achieve rapid aggregation of brand resources, talent resources, and collector resources to create "Shanghai services" with the best business environment.