The Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts (JSCPA) is a cultural complex that specialises in giving performances, producing stage plays, conducting art exchanges, carrying out popularisation and education, showing films, curating art exhibitions, recording and art photography. While introducing high-quality productions, the JSCPA persists in building a professional art team and commissioning new works to enhance its core competitiveness. So far, the JSCPA has put on a series of excellent opera/drama commissions, including the modern Peking opera Qingyi, opera Carmen, Chinese operas Mulan and 170 Days in Nanking, drama Under the Chaotian Palace, youth drama Flight of the Bumble Bee, children’s song cycle Because of Dad, and national dance drama A Dream of Red Mansions. Among these, the self-produced opera 170 Days in Nanking has garnered numerous professional awards at home and abroad since its premiere. Its touring production was staged five times at three venues in Germany and Austria in July 2019, reaping high box-office returns, bringing the Chinese opera art to the fore on the global stage. The drama Under the Chaotian Palace won the “Excellent Production Award” at the Zijin Culture and Art Festival and the Fifth Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Awards. It also made a perfect debut at the “Forward Together with Art” New Excellent Stage Arts Exhibition and Festival, Shanghai. The youth drama commission Flight of the Bumble Bee and children’s song cycle Because of Dad had their successful premiere, raising considerable concern. Since 2021, the national dance drama commission A Dream of Red Mansions has toured extensively across China, captivating the audiences each time, receiving critical acclaim nationwide. By taking the Grand Canal as a tie and urban theatres a carrier, the JSCPA started joining hands with 28 other theatres in founding the “Grand Canal Theatre Alliance” in 2019, in order to actively develop new methods for art communication. In 2022, when it was celebrating its fifth anniversary, the JSCPA put on a newly-produced drama commission Red Sorghum Clan and a piano concerto Travel Along the Canal to embody the national character and eulogise the people’s epic. Meanwhile, the JSCPA Children’s Chorus, Philharmonic Chorus and JSCPA Chamber Music Ensemble all have achieved remarkable results, too.