Qingdao, a beautiful seaside city located in China's Shandong Province, is globally soliciting for a city logo, song and slogan to raise its name recognition, influence and promote the city's image as a modern livable city.

The China Academy of Urban Culture and Beijing Longxingtianxia Media and Culture Ltd. have been entrusted with organizing the city's worldwide outreach.

The logo design should incorporate the city's cultural and natural elements, feature distinct themes, and originality, and create a vivid image,that could be understood and identified by people with different cultural backgrounds. In addition, it should be able to produce a strong visual impact and generate an artistic expression for people to remember it.

Apart from being impactful and fluent, the slogan requires an international perspective, observe the art of communications and embody openness, sincerity and hospitality in order to gain cultural identity from various sectors of the society.

The song should highlight the city's openness, enterprising spirit, marine characteristics and world integration. The song should also be positive, sincere, memorable and easy to sing.

The solicitation will end on June 15, 2013. Participants can submit via personal delivery, traditional mail, email and through websites such as China.org.cn and qingdaonews.com.

The Jury Committee consists of the Publicity Department of the CPC Qingdao Municipal Committee, the China Academy of Urban Culture and Beijing Longxingtianxia Media and Culture Ltd. They will review all submissions and the selected winners will be published via media.