Press announce this year's China Go Culture Summit and World Chinese Go Culture Festival will open in Chongqing's Liangjiang International Movie City on July 23. [Photo/lianggjiang.gov.cn]

This year's China Go Culture Summit and World Chinese Go Culture Festival will open in Chongqing's Liangjiang International Movie City from Dec 1 to 4, press announced on July 23.

The event will organize several national and worldwide competitions for professional and amateur Go players, including the National Amateur Go Competition and National Go Master Invitational Tournament.

Go is a popular game in Asia and increasingly throughout the world, particularly after Google's artificial intelligence software AlphaGo made world headlines earlier this year upon beating master Go player, Lee Se-dol.

A China Go Culture Seminar, Go Culture Picture Exhibition and a Go carnival will also be offered to the public during the event.

Rong Jianxing, head of the Guangdong Association for the Promotion of Go Culture, said, "Chongqing enjoys rich Go culture and history, and the city's players have won the National Go League championship nine times."

Ke Ping, president of the Chongqing Chess Institute, said this year's summit will promote the development of Chinese Go culture, especially popularizing the game in Chongqing.

The Chongqing Municipal Culture Commission predicts that the added value of Chongqing's culture industry will reach up to 100 billion yuan ($14.8 billion) by 2020.

Liangjiang International Movie City, in the Longxing Industrial Park of Chongqing’s Liangjiang New Area, gears up to be one of Chongqing’s hottest new attractions. [Photo/cqnews.net]

Edited by Zachary Dye