Recently, the International Communication Office of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee has published the 2011 – 2012 “Touch Shanghai” Recommended News Gathering Point units, in which DOBE F525 Art Forest is listed. From then on, the DOBE F525 Art Forest will accept visiting and interviews of the mass media home and aboard, representing Shanghai’s cultural creativity industry park.
The Recommended News Gathering Points of the “Touch Shanghai” series are the sample units functioning as the windows of Shanghai opened towards the outside to demonstrate the characteristics of Shanghai, under the spirit of the Decree No. 537 of the State Council and the support of the Municipal Committee International Communication Office. Such points are geared to the needs of the 107 permanent foreign media in Shanghai, inbound media and news agencies of domestic provinces and cities. Introduction documents of the coverage points are distributed to thepropaganda department of district committees, relevant administration offices, foreign units, academic institutions, universities, large-scale activities and forums etc.
As the creative industry cluster area, the precursor of DOBE F525 Art Forest is the Fahua Temple, one of the four grand old temples in Shanghai. After liberation, it has underwent reconstruction with the start point as an abandoned clothing factory workshop with the design principles emphasizing to create a working environment that is appropriate for the culture creative industry population, which also provides value-added services for the development of creativity industry. More than 30 culture creativity enterprises have been attracted successively with the foreign enterprise over 80%, becoming a mini “United Nations”. In 2010, business volume of F525 Art Forest is over tens of millions USD, which has successfully created many excellent culture creativity enterprises. Design principles of DOBE F525 Art Forest, breaking through the traditional design ideology and focusing on practice innovative value-added services, is the example of the new development path of Shanghai creative industrial park.
