On January 17, after half a year\'s selection, Yichang\'s highest literature and art awards - the Fifth "Three Gorgers Literature and Art Star Award" and "Qu Yuan Literature and Art Creation Award" were announced and a number of art stars and outstanding literary and art works came to the fore.
Let’s go back to November 16th, 2013, the result of the “Gold Panda” Awards at the Twelfth Sichuan TV Festival was announced in Chengdu. Yichang original animation “The Adventures of Chinese Sturgeon” won the first prize in the Nomination Prize of the best domestic animated television series against 682 participating works from 43 countries and it would be broadcasted on CCTV Children’s Channel, provincial TV media and network media. This is the beginning of Yichang animated television series as well as the first award of Yichang animated television series.
The success of the “Adventures of Chinese Sturgeon” is an epitome of building special culture boutiques and promoting the strategy of culture strong city. In recent years, Yichang Municipal Party Committee and Yichang government attached great importance to the creation and production of literal and artistic culture boutiques, strengthened planning and guidance, enriched themes and items pool. “Production of Literal and Artistic Boutiques Three Years Plan” has been formulated and incentive security mechanism has been established to encourage the production of boutiques, such as “Yichang City\'s propagandizing culture incentives”.
2013 was another bumper year of fine art works production in Yichang and a total of 43 fine art works achieved awards above the provincial level. Among them, the "Wufeng bench dragon", "fragrant wine" and "love in the landscape" were selected and delivered by Yichang, and those three works won the Galaxy Award at the Tenth China Festival and the number of participant programs also ranked top in the prefecture - level cities in the country; Funeral Ceremony of Tujia Tribute won “Sange Award”, the highest prize for Chinese folk performing arts, realizing the three successive championships. "Three gorges my hometown" and "sprinkle love to Dadu River" won the eighth "Five - One Project Award" (a good book, a good TV series, a good play, a good film, a good article) in Hubei Province. Yichang Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department was awarded Organization Work Award; "Writing certificate" and "Tujia girl in Qingjiang River Gallery" won the eighth "Qu Yuan Literary Award" in Hubei Province. Yichang culture-specific competitive products have gained popularity in the whole country, providing a strong cultural support for speeding up the construction of modern megacity and making breakthroughs in relevant areas in the whole province. (Reporter: Cai Junting)