Creativity in China [antikvár]

It seems that gone are the days when everything was dominated by relying only on capital and technology and an era of creative ideas is approaching with the arrival of the new century, an epoch for creative industry to grow up vigorously. Ali of a sudden the status and effect of creative ideas in economic development and social life are more prominent with each passing day, particularly in the aspect of giving first irnportance to people and artistic design, which embodies the transition from technical innovation to humanistic innovation. In 2005, after surpassing the Great Britain, Francé and Italy in GDP, China became the fourth economic great power in the world while the manufacturing industry of China grew at an even higher speed than the rangé of the GDP and alsó became the fourth Great Power in the world ranking only after the United States, Japan and Germany. With the availability of quantitative change, China is deliberating a qualitative change. It was alsó in the year of 2005 that the Chinese govemment pointed out explicitly the irnportance of "independent and creative ability" and took it as one of the national targets in the following five years "to improve the ability of independent creativity and to build China into a creative country". The creative industry is steadily becoming a pillar industry to lead the economic take-off and social progress of China in an all-round way. Historically, China showed no lack of creative ideas. In ancient China there were four great inventions: papermaking, compass, gunpowder and printing. Nowadays, the contemporary Chinese are still broadcasting the seeds of creative ideas in the stretch of ancient but fresh land. At present, China has just taken a first step in its creative industry. Compared with the average world GDP of 7%, the creative industry of China is still very low. However, in somé cities, the speed of