The Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

The Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) established in June 2024, formerly known as Create Hong Kong (CreateHK), is a dedicated office set up by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR Government) under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau to provide one-stop services and support to the cultural and creative industries with a mission to foster a conducive environment in Hong Kong to facilitate the development of arts, culture and creative sectors as industries. Its strategic foci are nurturing talent and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, promoting cross-sectoral and cross-genre collaboration, promoting the development of arts, culture and creative sectors as industries under the industry-oriented principle, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia’s creative capital and fostering a creative atmosphere in the community to implement Hong Kong’s positioning as the East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange under the National 14th Five-Year Plan.

 

CCIDA also administers the CreateSmart Initiative (CSI) which provides funding support for projects that are conducive to the development of Hong Kong’s creative industries, and the Film Development Fund (FDF) which provides financial support for projects that are conducive to the long-term development of the local film industry.

 

In addition, CCIDA oversees the infrastructure for promoting design, i.e. the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), and provides funding support for HKDC’s flagship programmes, namely Business of Design Week, DFA Awards, Knowledge of Design Week, Fashion Asia Hong Kong, Design Incubation Programme and Fashion Incubation Programme, as well as Nurturing Programme of Hong Kong Young Design Talents. CCIDA also provides one-stop service for location filming in Hong Kong, for both local and overseas films, and is responsible for the regulatory control of special effects materials for film shooting and theatrical performances.