Last year, the ninth Croisements Festival, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and France, witnessed a series of top-level events, such as Ten Masterpieces of French Painting that exhibited in the National Museum of China in Beijing. These events have left the organizers with some high expectations to present something equally as impressive this year.

Some new disciplines have been added to the program. Installation art exhibition, Telofossils, takes a philisophical look at what the technological age will leave for future generations. Telofossils is part of the new media category of the festival and it will be held in Beijing and Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.

At the multimedia music concert SmartFaust, Chinese audiences in Beijing, Wuhan, and Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu will have a chance to use their smartphones to interact with the performance.

A culinary design section, which is probably still a new term for most Chinese people, will gather artists from both countries to display their aesthetic creativity with food in Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan.

"Culinary design has become an independent discipline in some French colleges. Although China may not have any college courses in the art, Chinese people's rich culinary culture will give the two country's artists a basis for cooperation to show their common respect for food," says Berenice Angremy, one of the festival curators, and the cultural attache from the embassy.