Shanghai wants to be destination for gaming

Shanghai is looking to become a major international center for e-sports and has identified it as a major growth platform for the development of the city's cultural and innovative industry.

The municipal government released 50 guidelines last week, in response to General Secretary Xi Jinping's call to boost Chinese people's cultural and creative vitality at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

While focusing on development in areas like film and television, entertainment, animation and games, internet culture, artwork trade, publishing, creative design and cultural equipment, specific targets have been set in the guidelines, in which the city leaders said that they should speed up to build Shanghai into an international e-sports center.