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UN-backed creative economy center opens in Chengdu
A new UN-backed center opened in Chengdu on Nov.
4, at the China-Europe Center in the city’s High-Tech Zone.
Led by the UN Arts and Culture Impact Alliance, it is described as the first global platform of its kind, focused on sustainable creative economies and creative ecosystems.
The center will work across creative economies, creative ecosystems and technology innovation.
The initiative follows the 2024 UN Summit of the Future, which for the first time brought creative workers into the global governance agenda; the alliance was established that year to amplify their voices.
The center aims to connect the UN system and member states with civil society and other partners, making it an Asian strategic hub for cooperation.
Its organizers say it will develop approaches that can be adopted elsewhere, while Chengdu’s High-Tech Zone plans to link creative industries more closely with technology and digital industries.
The UN Alliance of Arts and Culture for Impact’s Global Centre for Sustainable Development of Creative Economy and Creative Ecology opened in Chengdu on Nov. 4.
The centre is based at the China-Europe Centre in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone.
It is described as the first global multilateral cooperation platform led by the alliance and focused on sustainable development of the creative economy and creative ecology.
The centre will focus on the creative economy, creative ecology and technological innovation.
It aims to connect the UN system and member states with civil society and other stakeholders.
- Who
- The Global Centre for Sustainable Development of Creative Economy and Creative Ecology (Chengdu), led by the UN Alliance of Arts and Culture for Impact.
- What
- It officially opened as a research and practice institution and multilateral cooperation platform.
- When
- Nov. 4, 2026.
- Where
- The China-Europe Centre in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, Chengdu, China.
- Why
- To support sustainable development in the creative economy and creative ecology, and give creative workers a greater voice and recognition.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The UN Summit of the Future was held at UN headquarters in New York and, for the first time, included creative workers in the global governance agenda.
The UN Alliance of Arts and Culture for Impact was established to raise the voice of creative workers in global governance.
The Chengdu centre officially opened at the China-Europe Centre in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone.
- Opening date
- Nov. 4, 2026
- Location
- China-Europe Centre, Chengdu Hi-tech Zone
- Focus areas
- Creative economy, creative ecology, technological innovation
- International organisations and institutions
- 18 in the China-Europe Centre international organisations cluster
- International institutions and companies
- 54 at the China-Europe Centre
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What people are saying
In the future, the China-Europe Centre will continue to connect global creative, academic and industrial resources, promote the establishment of more international institutions, and accelerate the development of a functional platform for the western region's engagement with the outside world.