Jilin Special : Crafts for the global market

The value of Jilin's culture industry has grown more than 17 percent annually, since 2006.

By 2008, nearly 5 percent of its GDP was from that industry, and that figure is expected to reach more than 6 percent under the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), according to provincial officials.

The province had a number of culture-related events last year. One of these was the Northeast Asia Culture and Art week, in September, a part of the Northeast Asia Expo. A total of 1.62 billion yuan worth of culture-related contracts were signed during the expo.