Established in April 2004, China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) is the first large state-owned cultural enterprise approved by the State Council, restructured on the basis of China Performing Arts Agency and China International Exhibition Center.

CAEG is invested by the State Council, policy-guided by the Ministry of Culture and supervised by the Ministry of Finance in its state property operation. CAEG consists of nineteen wholly owned enterprises including China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) and China International Exhibition Center (CIEG), two share controlling enterprises and one share holding enterprise. As the CAEG’ s core companies, both CPAA and CIEC have a history of more than 50 years. Being the sole organizations in China that manage global business, CPAA and CIEC have been the largest worldwide providers of Chinese performing arts and visual arts, as well as China’s biggest presenters of international performances and arts exhibitions. Over the past decades, CPAA and CIEC have accumulated rich experiences and earned good reputation in undertaking governmental cultural exchange projects, as well as organizing commercial tours of performances and exhibitions both at home and abroad. During the recent three years, CAEG has arranged 256 overseas performances and exhibitions, and have presented more than 14,000 performances in nearly 60 countries and regions with an audience of 20 million. 

CAEG owes its establishment to China’s deepening reform and opening up policy. As the country’s cultural business leader, CAEG will continue to serve as the main official channel for cultural exchanges with foreign countries. With its innovation of system and mechanism, CAEG will play a more active role in promoting Chinese culture and arts to the world.

MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival is a large-scale international arts festival under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and co-organized by China Arts and Entertainment Corporation and Beijing Cultural Bureau. Aiming at promoting Chinese culture, introducing foreign art of excellence and strengthening cultural exchange, MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival has established itself as China’s state-of-the-art festival featuring both universality and diversity.

MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival, as China’s state-level large-scale international arts festival and the biggest spring-season arts festival in Asia, has become a fairly influential artistic brand and gained wide recognition by art circles from home and abroad. Every May, the ancient yet modern Beijing is ready to welcome artists from all over the world with an open gesture. Prestigious troupes, artists, masterpieces, music, dance, theatrical performances and exhibitions gather in Beijing from all continents. Over the past five years, more than 200 art groups with about 6000 artists have brought more than 530 performances for millions of Beijing audience and took back Beijing’s greetings to the world. MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival is not only an influential art event which promotes cross-fertilization, communication and cooperation between artists, it is also a bridge of friendship linking the Chinese people with peoples all over the world and a promoter of mutual understanding and communication between China and the world.

The Festival has also attracted great attention from the central government, leaders of the State Council as well as wide support from the media from all over the world. China Central Television (CCTV) and Beijing Television (BTV) have given live or recorded broadcasts for the performances of MEET IN BEIJING many times. Thousands of millions of audience at home and abroad have shared the wonderful programs of MEET IN BEIJING through TV, radio, newspaper, magazine and Internet. MEET IN BEIJING has become a renowned cultural brand in Beijing.

With the economic and social development in China, Beijing is becoming an important stage of international politics, economy and culture. MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival is an invitation of arts from the confident Chinese people to the whole world, a multicultural feast of arts and a symphony composed by lovers of peace and arts. In the Festival, spirits of humanity are communicated, hearts and souls are linked, and beauty itself is given center stage.