Yichang City has built a world-class piano industry base and the largest piano production base in China; since 2011, Yichang has successfully held three consecutive China Yichang Yangtze River Piano Music Festivals, as well as various piano music festivals. More than 100 events were held. One out of every seven pianos in the world is produced in Yichang.

The Yangtze River Piano Music Festival is jointly sponsored by the Chinese Musicians Association, the Propaganda Department of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Yichang Municipal People's Government, the Large-Scale Events Office of the Chinese Musicians Association, and the College Music Alliance of the Chinese Musicians Association. , Three Gorges University, China Education Society Music Education Branch, and Perth Music Group hosted a series of large-scale theme activities with the theme of piano music.

Significance of the event

Holding the Yangtze River Piano Music Festival is an important measure to implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee and promote the development and prosperity of socialist culture. It is also an important measure for Perth Music Group has made important contributions to building a "China's first, world-class" piano production base and promoting better and faster development of China's musical instrument industry.

Holding the Yangtze River Piano Music Festival is of great significance to improving the artistic literacy of the masses, enriching the cultural life of the masses, strengthening urban cultural construction, promoting the development of the cultural industry, and building "Yichang Piano Music City".

Extended information

In accordance with the relevant regulations of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Musicians Association, the title of "Chinese Piano City" will be reviewed every three years.

The Chinese Musicians Association hopes that Yichang will rely on the platform advantages of "Chinese Piano City" to carry out various piano music activities, cultivate piano culture, build a long-term mechanism for literature and art to benefit the people, and build Yichang into a world-class A piano music cultural base for influential and well-known brands. ?

The Chinese Musicians Association decided to award Yichang the title of "Chinese Piano City", which means that Yichang has become the first city in China to be named "Piano City". After the Yichang Municipal Government and the Hubei Provincial Musicians Association submitted applications, and after listening to various opinions from relevant experts, the Chinese Musicians Association decided to award Yichang the title of "Chinese Piano City", and a formal awarding ceremony will be held on October 16.

Reference material? Baidu Encyclopedia—City of Piano in China

Reference material? Baidu Encyclopedia—Yangtze River Piano Music Festival