Lishui Photography Festival has been successfully held for 7 consecutive times since the year of 2004. The goal of the festival is “to create a well-known city of photography, to expand international exchange, to show the charm of Lishui and to promote the development of tourism”. Through a series of activities like hosting photographic competitions, exhibitions, forums, experts meetings and photography fair, each photography festival has attracted about ten thousand photographers both from home and abroad to the city to participate in the exhibition, communicate with fellow photographers and produce original works, which has set many records among domestic photography festivals and has been thus hailed as a powerful and qualified one. Now it has become the most influential photography festival throughout China and one of the most important in the world.