Its Department of Statistics had estimated that creative industries contributed around 3% of the country’s GDP in 2000. Developing these industries would give them the potential to contribute 6% of GDP by 2012, out of which 5 to 7% of the national workforce could be employed. In the area of arts, using the tag “Renaissance City” the Singapore Government aimed to “position Singapore as a key city in the Asian Renaissance of the 21 st century and a cultural centre in the globalised world”, to make Singapore “one of the top cities in the world to live, work and play in, where there is an environment conducive to creative and knowledge-based industries and talent”.