Educational Exchange

U.S. Performers in China

Category 1 Performing Arts Agencies in Beijing
Category one has government authorization both to send Chinese performers abroad on performing tours and to sponsor foreign performing troupes in China. There are twenty-four such agencies/companies in Beijing. Many of them were founded with support by or affiliation to a government institution. Some of them are no longer very active nowadays. Performing arts agencies/companies represented by China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) and China National Culture and Art Company operate under the Ministry of Culture. Agencies/companies under provincial or municipal cultural bureaus belong to this category. The major difference between CPAA and other agencies of this category is that CPAA, as a government-funded agency, has the responsibility to implement cultural exchanges under government agreements while also doing commercial programs.

China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA)
Founded in 1957, CPAA, directly under the Ministry of Culture, is the largest international performing arts agency in China. It has built close relationships with various artistic agencies and companies in the world. Every year, CPAA presents nearly 100 Chinese performing companies or groups in more than 50 countries and has, in the last 22 years, brought into China 22 world famous companies including Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Contact: Mr. Gao Qi, General Manager
Add: CNT Manhattan Building, Room 917
6 Chaoyangmen Beidajie
Beijing 100027, China
Tel: (8610) 8528-2087/88/89/90
Fax: (8610) 8528-2098
Mobile: (8610) 138-0110-1742

China National Culture & Art Company (CNCAC)
Founded in 1987, CNCAC is a large cultural enterprise directly under the Ministry of Culture. It has successfully sponsored a great number of performances, including China tours of the American Brecker Brothers Jazz, the Broadway Troupe, Yanni, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the American National Orchestra.

Contact: Mr. Wang Zhiming, Chief Planning Officer
Add: 305 Meihui Building Unit 3
58 Dongzhongjie, Dongcheng District
Beijing 100020, China
Tel: (8610) 6554-6512
Fax: (8610) 6554-6521
Mobile: (8610) 139-1065-9945
Email: wzmab@sohu.com

Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
This organization specializes in people to people exchange and has facilitated the performance of many student groups in China.  (Affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Contact: Mr. Wang Xiutian, Director, Cultural Exchange Department
Add: 1 Taijichang
Beijing 100740, China
Tel: (8610) 6513-1038
Fax: (8610) 6512-1687
Email: Cult.exch@263.com

China International Cultural Exchange Center
(Affiliated to Ministry of Civil Affairs)

Contact: Ms. Wu Jihua, Director, Culture & Art Exchange Department
Add: 9B Dongtucheng Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100013
Tel: (8610) 6420-3473
Fax: (8610) 6421-1641

China Oriental Bridge for Science & Culture Center
(Affiliated with Non-Ferrous Metals Company)

Contact: Ms. Mai Jian, Director
Add: Suite 907 Fuxing Road 12B
Beijing 100814, China
Tel: (8610) 6396-3801, 6397-1500
Fax: (8610) 6396-3801
Email: mai@public.east.cn.net

China Century Performance Corporation
(Affiliated with All-China Youth Federation)

Contact: Ms. Zhang Min, Assistant General Manager
Add: 40 Liangmaqiao Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100016
Tel: (8610) 6466-4805/3311 x3164/3165
Fax: (8610) 6462-8470
Email: yourlisa@sina.com

Yidu Cultural Development Company  (known as Beijing Music Festival)
Affiliated to Ministry of Culture, they have conducted three highly successful several-week long series of top-notch musical performances, all in concert halls, nothing unusual like an outdoor performance. As a new organization, it is in a position to organize tours to other cities in China, as CPAA does, but not prepared to do so during the annual music festival.

Contact: Yu Long, Artistic Director, Ms. Li Ming, Assistant Director, Program Department
Add: 6 Ritan Road
4th Floor Sunjoy Mansion
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020
Tel: (8610) 6593-0250/51/52 x117
Fax: (8610) 6593-0249
Mobile: 137-0136-2394
Email: nadia@263.net