CAPE TOWN Wholesale Bayern Munich Hoodies , July 13 (Xinhua) -- The 38th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) kicked off on Thursday with the aim of luring more film producers to South Africa.
The DIFF, which will last till July 23, is an annual film festival held in the coustal city of Durban and one of the oldest and largest film festivals in southern Africa.
In a congratulatory message, South African Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies said his department was participating in the DIFF which "is one of the best platforms a country can promote and showcase the country's creative skills."
The SA Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was fundingd workshops, dialogues and screening of productions in support of the festival.
Davies said the platform will be used to market the department's South African Emerging Black Filmmakers Incentive and target producers who qualify.
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"The incentive objective is still to create an environment that take advantage of the country's diverse and unique locations as well as low production costs and favorable exchange rates, which makes it significantly more cost-effective to produce a movie in South Africa than in Europe, the United States or Australia," said Davies.
The film industry has enormous potential in bringing the necessary currency into the economy and can act as an important vehicle through which technology is transferred and South African skills base is upgraded, the minister said.
The SA government spent 468 million rand with projected investment of 3.4 billion rand in the 20152016 financial year supporting the sector.
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China's ""Inner Mongolia has been achieving great and speedy economic achievements,"" Wiqar Ali Shah, a professor of social sciences at the Islambad-based Quaid-i-Azam University, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
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He cited Inner Mongolia's regional per capita gross domestic product (GDP), which amounted to over 11,000 U.S. dollars, ranking the sixth in China Wholesale Manchester City Hoodies , as an achievement ""due to the constructive and long-term economic and development policies by the Chinese government.""
The policies have enabled development in various sectors to create more jobs to help lift a big portion of the local population including minorities out of poverty, according to him.
Thanks to China's ethnic policies, ""Inner Mongolia has become more independent in implementing its own economic roadmap,"" he noted.
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Shah described as ""ideal"" the policies made and adopted by the central government under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has also helped promote unity ""not only at the local level but also at the national level.""
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Shah also noticed an increase in the population of local ethnic Mongolians thanks to different and favorable population policies the Chinese central government has adopted, which allows ethnic minorities to give birth to more children than Han Chinese.
The total population currently exceeds 250 million in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region that was set up in 1947, with an life expectancy up to 75.8 years from less than 35 years over the past seven decades.
Shah thinks the Chinese government and leadership have attached great importance to ethnic issues, inter-ethnic relations and national unity. ""Chinese ethnic policies and systems have already become exemplary in the world Wholesale Real Madrid Hoodies ,"" he said.
