On the evening of August 21, the China Film Festival Nigeria opened in SilverBird Galleria in Lagos State. The festival is co-hosted by China's Bureau of films and the Chinese Consulate General in Lagos. H.E. Hu Heping, Executive Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Minister of Culture and Tourism of China, attended the event and declared the opening of the festival, and Mr. Mao Yu, Executive Deputy Director General, Bureau of Films, the Department of the CPC Central Committee, Ms. Yan Yuqing, Consul General of China in Lagos, Mr. Li Xudai, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Nigeria, Mr. Otunba Segun Runsewe, Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Ms. Hajia Zainab Ali-Biu, Leader of the Delegation from Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, and Ms. Bimbola Salu-Hundeyin, Secretary to the State Government of Lagos, as well as others from the Federal Government of Nigeria and Lagos State, friends from all walks of life, and representatives of Chinese overseas enterprises and academia in Nigeria attended the opening ceremony.