1986

November 15th: authorized by Shanghai Municipal Government, Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation was founded.November: issued 100,000 premium memorial cards of Shanghai International TV Festival, the first kind of premium cards related to culture in Shanghai.

1987

June: issued 400,000 premium memorial cards of Shanghai International Art Festival1987

October: co-organized the Chinese Film Scripts Competition with Shanghai Film Studio Corporation to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

1988

April 13th: held the first meeting for the Council of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation, and the draft of the Charter was passed.

June: co-organized "the First Shanghai Folk Performing Art Festival " with Shanghai Folk Performing Artist Association.

November: held "Shanghai New Artist Performing Art Seminar"

1989

January: co-organized "the Second (Sino-Foreign) Chinese and Foreign Film Screening Seminar" with Shanghai Film Archive, and later held it annually.

June: jointly organized research activities for Shanghai Cultural Economics and Policy Studies, a project that lasted for nearly a year.

May - October: jointly organized Shanghai Culture &Art Festival 1989 and raised RMB 1,180,000 Yuan from society. December: co-operating with Shanghai Drama Magazine and other organizations, initiated the annual "Shanghai Magnolia Award for Dramatic Performance", which became the traditional ceremony in Shanghai drama circle; co-organized "the First Farmer's Film Festival" with Shanghai Film Screening Company.

1990

June 1st: held the final of Shanghai Children's Procession Singing Competition which lasted half a year with up to 90% of the children in Shanghai took part in it. It was one of the largest and most instructive activities for the children in Shanghai.

July - October: held a series of "Drama Developing Strategy Seminar".

1991

May: organized "the First Shanghai Culture &Art Festival Award"，which was the first and the most authoritative, of its kind in Shanghai and later became biannual; jointly organized the 14th "Shanghai Spring ".

November: organized "Shanghai Asia Music Festival 1991" which became the largest festival for Asian vocal circle at that time; co-organized "Treasure in China - the First Fair of Chinese Cultural Relic, Curio and Art" with Shanghai Mart.

1992

February: held the second meeting for the Council of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.

April: organized the appraisement and citation ceremony for the first "Award for Excellent Novelette in Shanghai", a biannual event.

December: organized "Shanghai Chinese Comedy Seminar and Chinese Comedy Show"

1993

January: held the third meeting for the Council of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.

March: jointly organized "Expediting the Construction of Shanghai Culture Market Seminar" with Shanghai Academy of Social Science, contributing RMB 1,800,000 Yuan together with Hong Kong Wandi International Co. Ltd to produce the Vol.1-20 of TV series "Forgive My Heart".May: held "the Special Performance of Yu Lina's Violin Pieces" established "Yu Lina Violin Art Fund".

November: held "the Fifth National Youth Violin Performing Competition" as organized by the Ministry of Culture.

December: jointly organized " Shanghai International Photograph Exhibition 1993".

1994

January: jointly organized the appraisement of "Top Ten Young Actors/Actresses in Shanghai"

February: launched the "Shanghai New Year Concert" and later continued to held this annual event for four consecutive years.

August: sent Shanghai Lingqiao Dragon Folk Art Organization to participate in "Sichuan International Folk Art Festival ".

December: cooperating with Shanghai Radio Station, organized "the New Year Concert on Love for Home" (performed by Overseas Chinese Performers' Orchestra) in Shanghai and Beijing.Jointly organized "Gouache Painting Exhibition in Asia-Pacific Area" and "the Fourth Shanghai International Photograph Exhibition".

1995

July: jointly organized "the First Drama TV Invitational Competition" with Shanghai Television Station.

August: held the fourth meeting for the Council of the Foundation; the Building of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation was completed and put into use; jointly holding " the Forbidden City-Hu Xiaodan Fashion Show in Shanghai".

November: held "the Shanghai 20th Century (Overseas Chinese Music Classic Shanghai Commemorative Performance) Commemorative Performance of Classic Chinese Music ".

1996

January: co- established Shanghai Girls' Orchestra with Shanghai Music Association and sent the orchestra to Taiwan for exchange performance.

July: jointly organized the collection of articles to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Mao Dun's Birth.Established the Council Club of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.

December: held the Symposium - Ten Years of Poets. Municipal Secretary Huang Ju sent a letter of congratulation; Mayor Xu Kuangdi delivered congratulations; Celebrities like Municipal Deputy Secretary Chen Zhili, Standing commissioner of Municipal Committee, Minister of Propaganda Jin Binghua and Vice-Mayor Gong Xueping delivered important speeches.

1997

January: held the Symposium on "he Position and Role of Cultural Development Foundation in the Trans-Century Cultural Development"

April: co-organized "Beauty of China- Peking Opera Costume Show" with Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe to participate in Houston International Art Festival.

October 8th -11th: organized "Gao ZhanXiang's Lotus Photograph Exhibition at Shanghai Art Museum.

October 16th -21st : held "the First Shanghai Art Fair" in Shanghai Mart.

1998

May 2nd -11th: in Jin-yu-lan Square，held "the 1998 Exhibition of 100 Shanghai Artists' Classic Collections", and issued "Looking back : the 20th Century" commemorative stamp collection.

May 17th -22nd: held the Second Shanghai Art Fair in Shanghai Mart.December: accomplished screening Vol.1-40 of the TV series "Big Heros in China", which was shown at Shanghai Television Station, Oriental Television, CCTV，and many other TV stations.

1999

September: issued the CD series New China Classic Collection of Stage Performance, Film and TV Series".

October: accomplished Vol.1-20 of the grand documentary TV series "Shanghai·Shanghai", which was shown by Shanghai Television Station.

November 23rd -28th: held the Third Shanghai Art Fair at Shanghai International Exhibition Center;27th -31st: held " Shanghai Asia Music Festival 1999 in Shanghai International Gymnasium.

2000

In spring: sponsored the 12th "Shanghai Magnolia Award for Dramatic Performance".

May to July: held "Xinjang Uigur Municipality Art Exhibition" in Shanghai and Xinjiang.

September: organized the creation of the grand opera "Zheng He's Journey to the West", and finished trial singing in Shanghai Theatre.

November: held the Third Shanghai Asia Music Festival and the Fourth Shanghai Art Fair.

2001

In spring: sponsored the 13th "Shanghai Magnolia Award for Dramatic Performance".

October: screened the musical "the Rising of the Moon in Shanghai" and issued VCD and DVD through China Records Corporation.

November 22nd -27th: held the Fourth Shanghai Asia Music Festival and the Fifth Shanghai Art Fair; held " Chinese Art Industry Forum" ,as organized by the Ministry of Culture.

2002

January: organized "the Anti-Piracy Image Ambassador Contest" for "the First Thunderbolt" In spring: sponsored the Fourth "Shanghai Magnolia Award for Dramatic Performance".

May: organized the writing of the play script " Rushing on the Way" which reflected the current campaign against corruption.

June: organized "the Promotion and the Future of Chinese Digital Film Forum".November 19th -24th: held "the Fifth Shanghai Asia Music Festival".13th -17th: held "the Sixth Shanghai Art Fair".19th -23rd: held "Sino-Korea Culture Industry Forum".

2003

On January 20th, the website of the SHCDF launched officially with both Chinese and English versions.

From March 7th to 9th, Han Luyi, vice Secretary-General of Beijing Cultural Development Foundation with his delegation paid a visit to the SHCDF.

From Match 16th to 17th, director of Hawaii WO International Communication Center and guests from Education Advancement Fund International paid a visit to the SHCDF.

On August 2nd, 2003 Shanghai Animation Exposition grandly opened in the Oriental Pearl International Media Center, which became another cultural hot spot in Shanghai following World Carnival. SHCDF was one of the sponsors.

In the middle of August, the SHCDF received two volunteers from UK, who gave an oral English class to the SHCDF staff.

On August 29th, Mr. Samuel Kohler, chairman of Basel Art Fair, and Mr. Jonathan Napack , manager of its Asian Department, paid a visit to the SHCDF and investigated the work of the Organizing Committee Office of Shanghai Art Fair.

On the eve of September 8th, the Gallery Invitational Exposition, which was the preview of the 7th Shanghai Art Fair, was inaugurated at Shanghai Art Museum.

On September 9th, The Symposium entitled“The trend of Chinese Gallery Trade”, which was sponsored by Department for Cultural Market, Ministry of Culture and undertook by the SHCDF, was held in Shanghai Art Museum. The theme of the seminar was the prospects for Chinese gallery trade and how to standardize the development of the trade.

From October 14th to 19th, candidates selected by preliminary competition or recommended by 11 domestic television stations were competing for China New Singers Competition, which was sponsored by the SHCDF.

From October 28th to November 2nd, 2003 Shanghai Art Fair was held by the SHCDF successfully.

On November 2nd, the America Emmanuel Javogue Fine Arts LLC signed an agreement with the SHCDF to donate the famous work of French realism sculptor August Rodin-The Large Thinker.

On November 5th, Bai Xi, Special Consultant of U.S. John F. Kennedy Center, and other two guests paid a visit to the SHCDF.

From November 7th to 14th, the organizing committees of Shanghai Asia Music Festival and In the City Music Festival, Japan jointly sponsored Sino-Japanese music festival at ARK in Xintiandi. On November 8th, Music Wave Band gave a performance at the Century Square in Shanghai.

From November 12th to 14th, the Sixth Asia New Singers Competition was held in the OTV studio by the SHCDF. Candidates from 12 countries including China (Hong Kong and Macao included), Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Malaysia participated the event.

On November 15th, 2003 Anti-Piracy Concert was held in Shanghai Stadium sponsored by the SHCDF.

In the middle of November, Zhang Yu, the famous artist, donated RMB1,000,000 yuan to the SHCDF to set up Zhang Yu Culture Talents Fund.

On November 28th, the 14th Shanghai Magnolia Stage Performance Awarding Ceremony, co-sponsored by the SHCDF and Shanghai Federation of Art and Literary Circles, was held at Shanghai Oriental TV Studio.

On the afternoon of December 10th, Yao Dixiong, famous Chinese artist sojourning in Australia donated a Chinese painting to SHCDF to express his support to Shanghai Culture Undertakings.

On December 10th, Professor Liukang from Duke University in U.S. paid a visit to SHCDF.

On December 22nd, delegation consisted of on-the-job EMBA students from Institution of Communication, Tai Wan Ming Chuan University, visited the SHCDF.

During the end of December, the SHCDF delegation paid a visit to American-Japanese Foundation, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in Hawaii, Honolulu Museum, etc.. Both partiess had deep discussions on the operation mechanism of non-profit organizations and cooperation in cultural projects.

2004 Main Events

In January, Liao Changyong, the famous baritone, donated to the SHCDF to found Liao Changyong Vocal Music Art Fund.

From Jan.15th to Feb.4th, "Liu Linghua Oil Painting Show"----one of the communicating items in China-France Culture Year, was held at China Culture Center in Paris. It was co-sponsored by Culture Ministry and SHCDF, and as a granting item of "Liu Linghua Art Special Fund" of SHCDF.

On the evening of Feb.29th, The Fourth China Dancing“Lotus Award”(Pantomime and Dancing Poem), under the co-sponsorship of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chinese Dancers Association, Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation, made the finals.

On May 17th, Mr. Henry Matthews, director of Galley and Collections of Grand Valley State University, U.S.A visited SHCDF.

On June 5th, a six-person Hawaii Delegation visited SHCDF. The two parties had a discussion about the cultural talents cultivation, the cultural program exchange and the volunteer dispatch in the future and reached a fundamental agreement.

On June 15th, 2003 Shanghai Municipal Mass Culture Award Program, which was granted by the SHCDF, held its award meeting in Broadcast and TV Tower.

From July 2nd to 11th, 2004 Shanghai Comic & Animation Exposition, which was co-sponsored by the SHCDF, was held at the Oriental Pearl Tower.

From June 25th to July 2nd, 2004 Shanghai International Ballet Competition, which was co-sponsored by the SHCDF, was held in Shanghai.

On the eve of August 17th,“Hello, Hong Kong—Dances of The Dynasties”by Shanghai Song & Dance Ensemble was premiered at the theater of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. The performance was co-sponsored by SHCDF and Hong Kong Cultural Development Foundation.

On August 18th, the premiere of DengXiaoPing·1928, which was hosted by Shanghai Film Corporation and SHCDF, was ceremoniously held in Shanghai Film Art Center.

On August 25th, the donation inauguration for The Large Thinker by August Rodin was grandly held in front of the Shanghai Library.

On the night of August 26th, the first "International Culture Salon" of the SHCDF was held on the scenery boat. Those who were present at the party consisted of the general consuls and officers of consulates general from 24 countries in Shanghai and their wives, the representatives from the media both at home and abroad, delegates from special funds, from the fields of justice, the arts, hotels and real estate and so on.

On August 27th, Christopher Butler, chairman of Asia 2000 Foundation, New Zealand, visited the SHCDF. The two parties had a discussion about the cultural program cooperation, the new cultural form exchange and the artist dispatch in the future and reached a fundamental agreement.

from September 1st, the SHCDF began to receive applications for Cultural Project Grant from the whole society.

On September 3rd, Debbie Allen, the famous American dancer, held a Jazz dance class to young students at the Shanghai Arts Hotel. The event was conducted jointly by U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, SHCDF, and Shanghai City Dance Company and

On October 9th, Ms. Paula Valier, the Managing Director of Biennale of Sydney in Australia visited SHCDF. The two parties exchange ideas of project management and channels for raising fund.

On October 26th, Lou Xiaoqi, Secretary-General of Beijing Cultural Development Foundation, paid a visit to the SHCDF.

From November 1st to 4th, 7th Asia New Singers Competition, sponsored by the SHCDF and SMG, was held in Shanghai. Candidates from 15 countries including Japan, Korea and Malaysia took part in the competition.

On November 6th, 2004 Anti-piracy Concert was grandly held. Stars from China mainland, Hong Kong and Tai Wan were attracted to give performances.

From November 5th to 9th, the 5th China Art Industry Forum & the First Salon of Art in Autumn, Beijing, China, jointly organized by Center for Cultural Market Development Ministry of Culture, China as well as SHCDF, was held in China National Museum,Beijing.

From November 17th to 21st, 2004 Shanghai Art Fair, which was sponsored by the SHCDF, was held at Shanghai Mart. It became not only the broadest in scale in Asia again, but also the most internationalized art fair around Asia.

On the morning of 25th November, Ms. Sophie McIntyre, Director of Adam Art Gallery in Victoria University of Wellington, visited the SHCDF.

On December 3rd, delegation of Hawaii State Government visited the SHCDF. The two parties had a deep discussion about the cooperation mode of 2007 Hawaii painting exhibition in Shanghai, the music group dispatch and how to set up oversea branch of the SHCDF in the future.

By the end of 2004, another 2 special funds of the SHCDF were established-----Shanghai Biennale Special Fund and Shanghai Oriental Art Centre Special Fund.

2005

On January 26th, the 1st Annual Exhibition of Shanghai Xiangshan Painting Institute (SXPI) & the Ceremony of donating artworks to the SHCDF was held in the Exhibition hall of Shanghai Library. Aiming at supporting the commonweal and redounding upon the society, the SXPI donated 24 artworks including paintings, calligraphy and seal carvings to the SHCDF.

On February 3rd, after examination and approve, 69 projects acquired grants from SHCDF in 2004 with total amount of 39.667 million RMB, including culture & arts creation, cultural research, culture & arts activity, culture &arts talent training, culture & art exchange and mass cultural activity.

On March 23rd, Mr. Zhou Fulong, Deputy Director of CPC Nanjing Publicity Department, visited SHCDF with a delegation of 10 people for the way of establishment, system, frame, operation mechanism and other related studies of“cultural development foundation”.

On March 25th, the academic lecture entitled“Chinese Art Collection and Investment " was held by Shanghai Art Fair Organizing Committee Office and Shanghai Chamber of Commerce (SCC). Being a senior expert of Chinese gallery circle, Mr. Guo Haoman, director of Yunfeng Gallery, was invited to give the first lecture.

On April 11th, Consulate General of Greece in Shanghai and representatives from Greece-China Association (GCA) visited SHCDF. During the meeting, both sides expressed will to establish long-term close friendship and discussed and explored the future cultural exchange and cooperation between Shanghai and Greece.

On May 12th,“My Favorite Sport”Art Painting Competition starts signing up. The theme of the competition is art and sport, aiming to promote mutual respect and understanding among children. The global organizer of the competition is International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) and SHCDF is the host of the competition in China.

On May 13th, the 2nd International Culture Salon (ICS) was held by SHCDF in Hainabaichuan Club. The 2nd ICS adopted the form of bilingual forum with the theme of“How to Integrate Social Resources to Develop Cultural Commonweal Undertakings”.

On June 10th, Hawaiian Delegation paid a visit to SHCDF, which comprised representatives from Hawaiian Government, Hawaii Ballet, Hawaii Opera House, and Pacific Culture & Education Foundation.

On June 18th, the Opening Ceremony of“Seven Plus One”Oil Painting And Sculpture Group Exhibition of Shanghai Youth and Midlife Artists & the Ceremony of Artworks Donation to SHCDF was held in Liu Haisu Art Museum. Eight artists donated artworks to SHCDF.

On June 18th, concert presented by Zhou Xiaoyan's Splendid Students was held at Shanghai Grand Theater, which was hosted jointly by SHCDF, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Grand Threat and Art Channel of Oriental TV Station and was funded by SHCDF Zhou Xiaoyan Vocal Art Special Fund.

On June 30th, the press conference of“Shanghai Youth and Midlife Artists Commending Exhibition 2005”was held by SHCDF. The exhibition would be held attached to Shanghai Art Fair during November 16th to 20th,with the aim of discovering and commending a series of youth and midlife promising artists in Shanghai, so as to enrich and prosper contemporary Shanghai artistic creation.

On July 15th, Shanghai Commonweal Publicity on Broadcast And TV Special Fund, which is subjected to SHCDF, awarded“Commonweal Publicity Image Ambassador”to Wang Jie, the famous Hong Kong pop singer.

On August 3rd, professor Tom Klobe from University of Hawaii Art Gallery and representatives from Taiwan Evergrand Art Museum paid a visit to SHCDF. The two parties discussed future collaboration on co-organizing exhibitions.

On August 27th, the final selective trial (mainland, China) of the 8th Asia New Singer Competition ended successfully. It was a great honor to have Xu Peidong, the well-known composer as well as the chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, to be the jury director. There were more than 170 competitors from 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, while over one third of the singers chose original works as their competition songs.

From September 30th to October 2nd, SHCDF delegation paid a visit to Euro-Asia Promotion and Cultural Foundation in Romania. The two sides reached agreement on cultural exchange during 2006 and 2007, and signed the Memorandum of Cooperation.

From September 30th to October 6th, with the support of the Embassy of The People's Republic of China In Romania, the“Exhibition of Chinese Photographs--Cultural Treasures”was held at Art Center in Brasov, Romania, which was co-organized by SHCDF and Euro-Asia Promotion and Cultural Foundation (EAPCF). This exhibition introduced the Chinese historic relics and cultural attractions with pictures dedicated to the 56th Anniversary of the Establishment of The People's Republic of China.

On October 5th, co-organized by SHCDF and East Shanghai International Cultural Media Co. Ltd, the grand Ethical Song & Dance Evening“Creating Harmony”was held at Shanghai Grand Stage.The event showed the brilliant harvest achieved by the Central Ensemble of National Minorities Songs and Dances since the past 50 years.

From October 6th to 9th, on the invitation of Greece-China Association (GCA), SHCDF delegation paid a four-day visit to Athens and signed a memorandum of cooperation with GCA.

On October 9th, SHCDF delegation paid a visit to International Child Art Foundation eV. in Munich,as ICAF’s National partner of its prestigious program—Arts Olympiad.

On October 18th, Mr. Rui Manuel de Sousa Rocha, Co-ordinator of Macau-China Delegation of Oriental Foundation (Portuguese) paid a visit to SHCDF.The two parties discussed future collaboration on co-organizing exhibitions and cultural research.

From October 26th to November 12th, the 8th Shanghai Asia Music Festival (2005) was held in Shanghai with three main events: the 8th Asia New Singer Competition 2005, Chinese Original Pop Music Competition 2005 and Anti-Piracy Concert 2005.

On November 8th, through the examination and discussion of 5 judges, 108 painting works were selected from multitudinous participating works for the shoot-off. The awards will be revealed at the Exhibition of Excellent Paintings & Awarding Ceremony of“My Favorite Sport”on January 2nd, 2006.

On November 12th, the Exhibition of European Classical Oil Paintings during 16th to 18th century opened at Shanghai Art Museum held jointly by SHCDFand Maison d’Art, Monaco. The 29 masterpieces displayed were selected from its multi-million dollar collection by the sponsor.

On November 19th, the grand Opening Ceremony of Shanghai International Biennial Urban Sculpture Exhibition (SIBUSE) 2005 was held in Shanghai Xujiahui Green Park by SHCDF. The SIBUSE 2005, with the theme of“Art, perfecting life”and duration of 4 months, boasted nearly 70 artists from 15 countries with 35 huge outdoor scenery sculptures and almost 260 small indoor decorative sculptures..

On November 20th, the 9th Shanghai Art Fair (2005) closed successfully after a five-day exhibition. According to incomplete statistic, the total amount of the visitor of this year’s Shanghai Art Fair exceeded 55,000 and the sales volume reached 52 million RMB, both were the most in its history.

On November 22nd, the 8th Asian Cartoon Exhibition, hosted by SHCDF, The Japan Foundation Asian Center and The Consulate of Japan in Shanghai, was launched at Liu Haisu Art Museum. The exhibition, with the theme“The Meaning of Life”, will proudly present 84 works freshly with wit and originality by 13 leading cartoonists from 11countries around Asia.

On December 16th, the 3rd International Culture Salon & Christmas Party was held in Ming Yuan Art Center. On the occasion of the ongoing“Shanghai International Biennial Urban Sculpture Exhibition (SIBUSE) 2005”, the Salon aimed to further promote the influence and reputation of SHCDF and SIBUSE, as well as to strengthen communication with Salon members from consulates, cultural circles and business community.