In recent years, with the in-depth implementation of the national cultural digitalization strategy, digital technology has promoted the increasing number of cultural market players in China, and the scale of culture and related industries has also been expanding. China International Cultural Trade Development Report (2023) pointed out that in 2022, the total import and export volume of foreign cultural products in China was 180.27 billion US dollars, the export trade volume was about 163.68 billion US dollars, and the import trade volume was about 16.59 billion US dollars. Among them, the proportion of China in the import and export trade of cultural and creative products in the global market is generally on the rise, and the total export value is close to 40%. China’s international cultural trade has entered a new round of rapid development stage, which has become a new focus to stimulate the growth of China’s international trade.

In the global market, there will be an expansionist tendency in the process of cultural trade, such as unbalanced output and input, uneven cultural trade and so on, which will impact the cultural traditions, values and lifestyles of the trading countries. At present, maintaining national cultural trade security and promoting the high-quality development of cultural industries have become an important issue facing China.

The security of cultural trade is characterized by two-way. The exporting country of cultural trade penetrates the ideology, values and lifestyle of the target country through cultural products and services. Correspondingly, the importing country protects and develops its national culture, adjusts its cultural development strategy, gives play to its comparative advantages, and expands its cultural trade output, so as to resist the influence of foreign culture on its own country. Therefore, the national cultural trade security is influenced by two factors: the cohesion of domestic mainstream culture and the international competitiveness of cultural industries.

On the one hand, the safety factor of a country’s cultural trade is closely related to the cohesion of domestic mainstream culture. Different from the tool attribute of industrial FMCG, which aims to meet the basic needs of human beings, cultural products have emotional attributes, and their consumption experience depends on specific values and aesthetic resonance. The stronger the cohesion of domestic mainstream culture, the more cultural enterprises attach importance to the inheritance and innovation of their own culture, and cultural products and services can more accurately meet the cultural consumption needs of their own people. Local original cultural products dominate the domestic market, which can effectively hedge the impact of cultural products and services from other countries on their own people’s values, thinking habits and lifestyles. On the other hand, when our people are more chasing foreign cultural products and services, and the country’s international cultural trade shows a deficit, the domestic market will be squeezed by a large number of foreign cultural products, the country’s original cultural traditions and value orientation will be seriously impacted, and the security pressure faced by the national cultural industry will increase. On the other hand, the national cultural trade security is also positively related to the international competitiveness of the country’s cultural products and services. The greater the share of a country’s cultural products and services in the international market, the higher the consumer recognition, the higher the country’s trade discourse power and rulemaking power in the international market, and the more capable it is to safeguard its own cultural trade interests from infringement and ensure the normal operation of the foreign cultural trade system from destruction and threat.

In today’s world, cultural thoughts are stirring each other and different values are playing games with each other. Vigorously developing cultural trade can not only gain economic benefits, but also prevent the erosion and impact of foreign cultures and values on domestic culture, and spread domestic cultural values and thinking habits abroad, thus affecting a country’s international status and international influence. The Chinese nation has a rich cultural heritage and rich cultural resources. It is the only way to safeguard the national cultural trade security and promote the "going out" of culture by giving full play to the innate advantages of China’s cultural resources, deeply tapping the huge potential of the domestic cultural market, strengthening the industrial characteristics of "content is king" and constantly exploring overseas markets. (Cheng Bing is an assistant researcher at the Cultural Development Strategy Research Center of China Academy of Art)

Source: Guangming Net

Every edited: Zhao Yun

On December 1, the three major indexes of A-shares fluctuated and sorted out. As of the close, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.07% to close at 3031.64 points. Shenzhen Component Index fell 0.07% to close at 9720.57 points; The growth enterprise market index rose 0.19% to close at 1926.28 points. In terms of industry sectors, the TMT tracks such as games, education, cultural media, Internet services, software development and communication services rose collectively, and the AI application side strengthened collectively, while the short drama and game sectors continued to be strong. Motors, auto parts, airports and general equipment sectors were among the top losers.

In the afternoon, after the news that the state-owned capital operation company entered the market to buy ETF came out, the index ushered in a turning point, with the Chinese prefix taking the lead, followed by AI+ dreaming back to the first half of the year, and the application side set off a daily limit. On December 1, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges traded 834.1 billion yuan. In terms of northbound funds, Shanghai Stock Connect sold 4.062 billion yuan and Shenzhen Stock Connect sold 935 million yuan, and the two cities sold 4.997 billion yuan.

Source: Wind

On December 1st, the game ETF(516010) rose by 8.55%, and the movie ETF(516620) rose by 5.03%.

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In the news, AIGC tools such as AI+ video quickly landed. At the beginning of the year, HeyGen launched, which can help users create promotional videos through AI digital people. Since Runway released Gen-2 in early November, AI video tools such as MetaEmuVideo, Byte PixelDance, and StableVideoDiffusion were released on 16th and 21st. On November 28th, Pika, an AI startup, announced that Pika1.0, its AI video generation software, launched a major upgrade and officially opened an early beta version after more than four months of internal community testing, which quickly became popular on major social media.

A leading A-share game company officially released the "Tiangong SkyAgents" platform on December 1st. On the Tiangong SkyAgents platform, users can deploy their own AIAgents in a few minutes through natural language and simple operation without code programming, and complete many personal tailor needs such as industry research report, document filling, trademark design, and even fitness plan and travel flight reservation. A leading A-share game company is also developing a series of "Three-body" games, and plans to build a large model of the domestic game industry with Yuncong Technology.

Tencent’s companies issued a "script solicitation order" to enter the short drama industry. The platform promises to bring 15,000-50,000 guaranteed remuneration to the authors, and a maximum of 2% of the running accounts. Reading Group has unified requirements and regulations in four aspects: content standard, original submission requirements, adaptation submission requirements and submission instructions. The short play market has entered the stage of a hundred flowers blooming. The platform with rich IP reserves and strong script development ability is helpful to grasp the audience’s aesthetics, help the writers to create and adapt the content, pave the way for the future short play content, and is expected to seize the market share in advance. The game sector with fundamental advantages can be given priority.

In terms of film and television, the recent release of two high-topic films has led to the marginal recovery of the film market. "I am a mountain" has been searched in Weibo many times, and the suspense film Across the Furious Sea is the second film with a box office forecast exceeding 500 million after the National Day file. Driven by this, the weekend box office is showing a marginal improvement trend, and the Saturday/Sunday box office has reached the highest since the National Day file. There are still many blockbuster films released in December, which is expected to undertake a relatively high enthusiasm for watching movies, and the film market is expected to continue to recover. It is estimated that there is still room for recovery in the film market in 2024, which is expected to grow steadily to 58-60 billion yuan, basically returning to the level of 2019 (64.266 billion yuan).

At the same time, the game film and television industry is the most certain direction for AIGC to reduce costs and increase efficiency. With the accelerated investment in the industry, industry changes such as reducing costs and increasing efficiency and playing innovation will be gradually reflected. Under the normalization of the version number, the supply cycle of the game industry is gradually opened; The audience’s willingness to watch movies rebounded, the demand for film and television picked up, and the prosperity of the game and film industry continued to rise. After pre-adjustment, the cost performance of plate investment has improved.

From the catalyst point of view, the rapid landing of AI+ video (pika, heygen), the expected release of Apple MR, and the new increment of AR glasses, the media has a lot to watch in the New Year’s market. The market space of the industry is still relatively broad, and it has certain allocation value after the callback. We can continue to pay attention to the investment opportunities of game ETF(516010), film ETF(516620) and other related targets.

Both the software and computer sectors achieved good gains that day, with the software ETF(515230) closing up by 3.12% and the computer ETF(512720) closing up by 2.89%.

Source: Wind

From the policy point of view, the computer software sector bears the important mission of the transition from industrial economy to digital economy. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party has drawn a grand blueprint for the deep integration of digital economy and real economy. At present, the digital transformation of manufacturing industry has become the general trend. With the infiltration and integration of new generation information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain into manufacturing industry, the value of data elements has been further released. The computer software sector plays a decisive role in promoting business process transformation and promoting fundamental changes in production methods, organizational forms and business models of enterprises.

A detailed analysis of the subdivision direction of the computer software sector shows that artificial intelligence is a main line with high certainty at present, and the world is waiting for highly active AI applications to achieve a "closed loop", thus driving the next round of growth from computing power to application penetration. In the domestic market, data elements continue to brew. In April 2020, China explicitly listed data elements as new production factors for the first time. By 2H23, the data industry has ushered in a series of top-level design catalysis, and data elements are expected to become an important main line of the computer software sector.

From the perspective of supply and demand, Xinchuang and the digitalization of central state-owned enterprises are expected to lead the computer software sector to open up new growth space. Under the background of weak downstream digitalization demand and delayed digitalization expenditure of SME customers in 2023, the digitalization investment of central state-owned enterprises still shows some resilience in the big environment. With the release of new demand for digitalization and the promotion of industry localization, the digitalization investment of central state-owned enterprises is expected to continue marginal upward in the following quarter, leading the computer software market to open up long-term and stable growth space.

Interested partners can pay attention to the software ETF(515230) and the computer ETF(512720) to grasp the overall investment opportunities in the computer and software fields, or they can pay attention to the Xinchuang ETF(159537) to lay out the investment opportunities for information technology application innovation with one click, but they should also be wary of the fluctuation risk because the short-term orders are less than expected.

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