At 10:20, November 18, 2004, the ICIF Hall in the Shenzhen Hi Tech Fair Exhibition Hall welcomes a special visitor --Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. When he arrived the booth of Nanfang Daily Group, there spread a scene of jubilation! After listening to the report of Zhong Guangming, the general manager of Nanfang Daily Group, Li Changchun expresses deeply gratified to the Nanfang Daily Group's good development tendency, and repeatedly said four "good"!

Seeing Li Changchun visited the A hall with great interest, Huang Liman, the vice secrtetary of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and secretary of CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, happily said: " Changchun has came, we are so happy." After walked through the A hall, Li Changchun and the group arrived the B hall. The B hall collects the graphics media image, like Nanfang Daily Group and so on, it is also the exhibition area of the international high-quality printing works and the technical equipments.

"Let's go for look at the booth of Nanfang Daily Group." At 10:20, accompanied with the provincial and city's leaders, Li Changchun arrived the exhibition area of Nanfang Daily Group with smiles. The general manager of the Group, Zhang Guangming moved towards quickly.

As the first press group, which is organized by the party newspaper of provincial level, the group relied on the multi- brands strategy, established a press "aircraft carrier", the under "Nanfang Daily", "Nanfang Metropolitan Daily", "the 21st Century Economies Report" and many newspapers were selected into "500 most valued brand of China", and the group has became the "20 most respected enterprises of China", what's more, the group was praised as "the press group which has the most reasonable newspaper structure, the most comprehensive reader covers, and the strongest comprehensive operation". Zhong Guangming reported to Li Changchun: "The development of Nanfang Daily Group was very good in recent years. At present, we have already had seven newspapers & four publications, a publishing house, and a news website... ... " Li Changchun listened with nod, praises with four "good", suddenly there burst into thunderous applause outside and inside of the booth.

Li Changchun walked througn Hall A and B for two times, visited several booths, and then, left the hall and go to the Dafen Oil painting Village.

The Brief History of the Fair

The concerned people of the Organizing Committee of ICIF said that, from the preparation to the successful hold of the first ICIF, we receives closed attention from Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. On March31, through the work bulletin of the Ministry of Culture, Lichangchun knew that Shenzhen will hold the ICIF, he made an important comment immediately, fully affirmed the creativity of hold the ICIF in Shenzhen, and requested to hold the ICIF as the Cultural "Guangzhou Export Commodities Fair" of China. With Li Changchun's attention, the ICIF was promoted to be hosted by Ministry of Culture of the PRC, State Administration of Radi, Film, and Television of the PRC, General Administration of Press and Publication of the PRC, Guangdong Provincial People's Government. In some words, the ICIF is promoting by Li Changchun, and births with full flower. The first ICIF has already became a national standard, international and comprehensive fair.