China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) is hosted by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the CPC,the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the PRC and the National Radio and Television Administration, organized by the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government and operated by the Publicity Department of Shenzhen Municipal Committee, Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism, and Sports, Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Shenzhen News Group, Shenzhen Media Group, Shenzhen Publishing Group as well as Shenzhen International Cultural Industry Fair Co., Ltd.. ICIF is the only national standard, international and integrated cultural fair in China, which is approved by UFI (The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry), and it is China's earliest-established and largest-scale cultural industry fair. 

Since its establishment in Shenzhen in 2004, ICIF has always adhered to righteousness and innovation and consistently centered on exhibitions and transactions, striving to build a platform for trading Chinese cultural products and projects while promoting and driving the development of China's cultural industry. The exhibition area has grown from 45,000 square meters at the first edition to 160,000 square meters at the 21st edition. The number of exhibitors has increased from more than 700 to 6,280 at the 21st edition. And the number of participating countries and regions has risen from 10 to 110 at the 21st edition. In recent years, the ICIF has attracted over 120,000 cultural and creative products from around the world each year, along with more than 4,000 cultural industry investment and financing projects showcased and traded on-site. Its influence now extends to over 100 countries and regions worldwide. The ICIF has become the largest scale, the highest specification, most effective and most influential exhibition in the field of China’s cultural industries. It serves as a vital engine driving China's cultural industry development, a key platform for promoting Chinese culture, and an important window for expanding the opening-up of the cultural sector. Its status as ‘The Top Cultural Fair in China’ continues to solidify, and it is striving to become ‘The Top Cultural Fair in the world’.

The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) will be held at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center from May 21 to 25, 2026 (Thursday to Monday), with a total exhibition area of 160,000 square meters. This important edition of the ICIF takes place in the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and the year when the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting will be held in Shenzhen. The ICIF will continuously strengthen its trading functions and further elevate the ICIF’s levels of  specialization, marketization, digitalization, and internationalization. It will also support the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s outstanding traditional culture, accelerate the establishment of a modern cultural industry system, and stimulate innovation and creativity in culture.