China Internation Folk Art Festival (CIFAF), Sponsored by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC) since 1990, is the only large-scale international folk art festival in China. The festival is very popular among people and the state leaders have always showngreat concern and paid much attention to it, CIFAF is held once every three years and it has been successfully held for seven times until now.

to develop and exchange folk art of various countries;
to enliven and enrich the cultural life of the masses;
to show the image of the reform and opening-up in our country;
to promote the friendship and peace among the countries in the world.

Since 1990, CFLAC has sponsored the CIFAF in nearly 30 cities in China, invited over 100 national troupes of folk song and dance from 63 counties on five continents with more than 2,600 artists to participate the performances. The performances were showed in gymnasiums, theatres,public squares and parks. We even arranged the troupes to go to the factories, mines enterprises, schools, rural areas, etc.

There are two types of performances, elite professional performances and amateur non-professional performances, which both demonstrate the art of folk songs and dances with diversified features from different countries. All performances were lively telecasted by China Central Television and some local television stations and were shown to the 2.3 billion Chinese people.