June 18, 2011 | Chengdu “Hundred Clubs Photography Competition”: A City-Level Mass Photography Action

On June 18, 2011, the record states that “the world’s first ‘Hundred Clubs Photography Competition,’ organized within a single city to showcase mass photography, emerged in Chengdu,” and explicitly notes the city’s base conditions as “Chengdu already has a million-strong army of photographers.”

The same entry provides a key verifiable number: “132 teams registered to participate,” and records the host as Huang Mei, leader of the association’s “Chili Club.”

In addition, the record notes a related event one week earlier (June 11, 2011): described as the first nationwide on-site photography competition with only a 10-day submission period, offering 78 awards and a total prize fund of 30,000 yuan, with on-site posting, on-site judging, and on-site awarding. That event was hosted by Li Dan, chair of the association.

The combined record highlights Chengdu’s rapid sequence of large-scale public photography actions, using a city as the organizing unit, teams as the participation structure, and clearly stated registration figures to document the scale of public mobilization.