Annex Ⅰ:China • Putian International Sculpture Exhibition

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Annex II:

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2016 China·Putian International Sculpture

Exhibition

Commitment Statement of Participators

I (hereinafter referred to as “the Undersigned”) hereby make

commitments on exhibition qualification to the Sculpture Organizing Committee of 2016 China· Putian International Sculpture Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "the Sculpture Exhibition") as follows:

Article Ⅰ The Work bidding for the Sculpture Exhibition is created by the Undersigned independently and the Work has not been built in any outdoor field. The Undersigned fully possesses the complete intellectual property rights of the Work submitted to the Sculpture Exhibition, and the Work will not infringe upon the intellectual property rights as well as/or other legitimate rights and interests of anyone else. Otherwise, once found, the Committee reserves the right to disqualify the Undersigned and to cancel its position in shortlist or winner list if the Work has been shortlisted or awarded, and will recover all the money for bonuses, subsides and so on that have been issued or paid.

ArticleⅡ The Undersigned, if it is a legal entity or other organization, has reached an agreement on its intellectual property rights of the Work with the original author through a contract, an agreement or a regulatory arrangement in order to obtain the complete intellectual property rights of the Work.

Article Ⅲ If the Work is created by the Undersigned in cooperation with others, the Undersigned has reached an agreement on its intellectual property rights of the Work with co-authors through a contract, an agreement or a regulatory arrangement in order to obtain the complete intellectual property rights of the Work. But in case that all the authors of the Work participate in the Sculpture Exhibition jointly is excluded, all the authors should sign this Commitment Statement of Participators together.

Article Ⅳ If the Work is prized by the Sculpture Exhibition, the (sculptor) Undersigned irrevocably agrees to authorize the Organizing Committee to enjoy the rights to publicize and promote the Work permanently, which include but are not limited to the ways using images, text, newspaper, TV, internet and so on. If the Work is awarded Mazu Prizes, Caixiang Prizes and Zengjing Prizes in the Sculpture Exhibition, the Undersigned agrees to transfer the copyright of the Work and the ownership of the built Work to the

Organizing Committee free of charge, and the Undersigned will not

submit the Work for other competitions, nor build or copy the Work in any other places without the permission of the Organizing Committee.

Article Ⅴ If the participation of the Undersigned in the

Sculpture Exhibition and/or his/her submitted Work (whether or not

due to his/her own faults) subjects the Organizing Committee, the Sponsors or Co-organizers to any direct or indirect reputational or economic losses, relevant organizations thus affected will have the right to require the Undersigned to take adequate and appropriate measures to save them from the losses and adverse impacts mentioned above, which include but are not limited to all the payment for attorney fees, legal costs and damage compensation incurred by the organizations resulting from that, and to make a public apology to the organizations in newspaper in order to eliminate adverse effects.

ArticleⅥ If the Undersigned has created a finalized sample of the Work in the form of a three-dimensional sculpture by invitation, the Organizing Committee has the ownership of this finalized sample since the day it is submitted to the Organizing Committee.

Article Ⅶ All disputes in connection with the Sculpture Exhibition shall be governed by Chinese laws. When disputes are unable to be solved through consultation or negotiation, indictments shall be submitted to the People’s Court with jurisdiction for the place where the Organizing Committee is located for resolution. The Organizing Committee possesses the ultimate right of interpretation regarding the Call for Entries for the Sculpture Competition.

ArticleⅧ This Statement shall take effect since the day it is signed and sealed by the Undersigned.

Signature:

Signature and Seal of Legal Entity or Other Organization:

Date:

Annex III:

An Overview of Putian

Putian, a prefecture-level city of Fujian Province, with its ancient name of“Xinghua”, “Xingan”,“Puyang” or “Puxian”, has been the center of politics, economy and culture in the middle of Fujian Province and is one of Fujian “famous historical and cultural cities.”. Litchis are harvested in large quantities here, thus Putian is also called “the LitchiCity”. As an emerging port city and the MazuCulturalCenter, Putian is dubbed as a “seashore city” endowed with rich culture and literature. Putian has successively won the Top 100 Chinese City with great investment attraction, China’s best commercial city, national garden city, the city of footwear export base in China, the Chinese wood carving city, and has been awarded the Prize of the National Model Green City, Chinese classical furniture city, Chinese silver ornament city, the industrial base of Chinese jewel and jade, etc.

Located in the central coast of Fujian, Putian is on the west bank of the Taiwan Straits, on the north of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province and the south of Quanzhou and Xiamen special economic zone. Its east longitude is between 118°27`-119°39`, and north latitude 24°59`-25°46`, covering a total land area of 4,119 square kilometers and sea area of 11,000 square kilometers. There are more than 150 islands distributed around Meizhou bay, Xinghua bay and Pinghai bay. Putian enjoys Subtropical marine monsoon climate with its annual average temperature between 18℃ and 21℃. Putian is home to marine products, such as abalones, prawns, swimming crabs, Ding Changyu and so on. Its four kinds of fruit, namely, longan, litchi, loquat and Wendan pomelo are known to the world, thus being referred to as “the Land of Fish and Rice” and “the City of Fruits”

Authorized by State Council, PutianCity was founded in September, 1983. After the adjustment of administrative division in February of 2002, it currently governs XianyouCounty, Licheng District, Chengxiang District, Hanjiang District, Xiuyu District, Meizhou National Holiday ResortManagement Committee and North Shore of Meizhou Bay Economic Development Zone Management Committee. Its urban built-up area is 88.52 square kilometers, and the total population is 3,290,000 by the end of 2013, including 2,830,000 residential population. Putian is also the ancestral home of most Chaozhou-Shangtou people, and the hometown of overseas Chinese. By 2014, it has more than 1,500,000 Chinese from abroad, distributed in 84 countries and areas. Putian has approved 1518 oversea Chinese enterprises, with a total investment of $7.577 billion and utilizing overseas Chinese investment of $7.002 billion , accounting for over 75% of the total utilizing foreign investment in Putian.

Putian is unique for its custom and culture. The diligence of the people, the strong local accent, the unique Mazhu costumes, the Putian Opera are all full of interest; the traditional rites and the architectural style are colorful. Putian has special dialect. It is said that the dialect of Putian was the official language used during Tang Dynasty. Also, many famous people came from Putian, including over 2000 Jinshi (a person who passed all three examinations held by the government in ancient time), 10 Zhuangyuan(a person who won the Number 1 in the final), and 8 prime minister (in feudal China) during the 1200 years from Tang to Qing Dynasty. Many artistic talents came out through the ages in Putian, including calligraphy masters Cai Xiang (one of the four famous calligraphers in Song Dynasty), Cai Jing, Cai Bian, Chen Zhang, Chen Wenlong, Liu Kezhuang, Guo Shangxian, Zhou Ying, Song Yu, etc; Painters Ceng Jing, a famous portrait master in Ming Dynasty, who had created the "Embossing Method" with national style, also known as the "Bochen School". His works has the extremely important status in the history of Chinese painting. Also, the representative painters of modern XianyouSchool of painting were Li Xia, Li Geng, Huang Xi, Zhou Xiuting, etc. The famous sculptures with cultural value include Mazu wooden statue in the Southern Song Dynasty (anonymous sculptor), Muzu statue in the former main shrine in Meizhou Mazu Temple in Putian (original authors were Lin Tiandang and Lin Shenghuang), and the stone carving dragon post by Guo Huai in Qing Dynasty, etc.

Putian boasts picturesque scenery and numerous historical sites. With more than 250 places of historic interest and scenic beauty, it is one of Fujian “famous historical and cultural cities.”Mazu cultural tourism is ranked as one of ten provincial tourism brands. Also it has Meizhou bay Xiuyu deep water harbour which is famous as “rare in the world and infrequent in china”. The other major resort areas include Meizou National Holiday Resort, JiulihuLake, Putian Arts and CraftsCity, ChineseClassicalArtExpoCity, South Shaolin Temple, JiulongValley, Caixi Rock, Yongxing Rock, GuanghuaTemple, SanqingTemple, MulanPei, NinghaiBridge, Putian Royal Manor Hot Spring Resort. Therefore it is listed as one of the top tourist destinations for people at home and abroad. Also it has Meizhou bay Xiuyu deep water harbor which is famous as “rare in the world and infrequent in china”. Opening to the outside world and docking stations, XiuyuHarbor has been built with great utility of 19 wharves, and has opened to navigation with many countries and regions of the world.

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