The theme of this year's edition of the festival is Brain Garden as the garden represents an age of innocence envisioned by humans. An educational institution is like a garden. While learning in an art academy is not like roaming carefree in a garden, but rather a journey of working with nature and growing with beauty.

This festival is co-hosted by the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, the China Academy of Art, and the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music.