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Tencent signs deal with Palace Museum to promote traditional culture

Summary: Tencent, China's internet giant, has signed a three-year deal with thePalace Museum to promote traditional Chinese culture through thecreativity of today's youth.

TencentChina's internet gianthas signed a three-year deal with thePalace Museum to promote traditional Chinese culture through thecreativity of today's youthThe two will work on emoticons on QQ (themost-used instant messenger in China), gamesanimation and literaturebased on traditional cultural stories in ChinaCompetitive events andcross-industry cooperation are in the works.

Pony MaCEO of Tencentsaid the fusion of social media and traditionalculture has provided an opportunity for more ideas to flourish.

"Next Idea Tencent Creativity Competitionwill be held for applicants todesign new QQ emoticonsAs of todayQQ has registered 877 million usersin Chinaof which 60% are born after the '90s. The most popular emoticonis used more than 5.2 billion times a dayTencent hopes that the design ofa new cultural emoticon will build a bridge between youth and traditionalculture.

The Palace Museum has worked intensively to promote traditional Chineseculture through modern technology in recent yearsAside from the dealwith Tencentthe Museum has also created Apps and educational gamesfor both youth and childrenIt has began selling entrance tickets online tosuit the needs of today's youthand offers a variety of products on itsofficial store on T-mallan online sales platform of Alibaba.

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