Original Title: New Cultural Observation | Inferior Artists Banned from Be Anchor Tracking: Strengthen Industry Self-discipline, Clarify Industry Trends
The China Performance Industry Association Network Performance (Live Broadcast) Branch recently released the ninth batch of network anchor warning lists, including two professional anchors "Tieshan Kao" and "Mr. Guo" and three actors from "Wu Yifan", "Zheng Shuang" and "Zhang Zhehan". The 88 anchors inside will be boycotted and punished in the industry.
This is the first time that an illegal and unethical artist has been included in the warning list of online anchors to prevent bad actors from relocating their positions and returning.
This move caused great social repercussions, and issues such as the mechanism, role and boundary of self-discipline in the performance industry have also attracted attention.
To this end, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency exclusively interviewed the head of the China Performance Industry Association.
Xinhua News Agency reporter: What is the process of forming the warning list and the background of this self-discipline work?
Person in charge of the China Performing Arts Association: Publicizing the warning list and boycotting people who violate laws, regulations, and morals is the normalization of the industry's self-discipline work for the online performance (live) branch of the Association.
In recent years, online performances (live broadcasting) have risen rapidly. In order to promote the development of industry standards, the China Performance Industry Association established an online performance (live broadcasting) branch in accordance with the law under the guidance of the competent authority in 2017.
The branch is composed of the member units of the web live broadcast platform and the member units of the online performance brokerage agency based on the principles of spontaneity, voluntariness and autonomy.
The joint committee of branch presidents and the members of the secretariat are elected by all members and are concurrently held by industry practitioners.
According to the internal self-discipline of the branch, the warning list is put forward by the member units of the branch, reviewed and approved by the branch content review experts and the branch chairman joint meeting.
The warning list takes effect within the scope of members and is implemented by the member units themselves.
In November 2021, in accordance with the spirit of comprehensive governance in the cultural and entertainment field, the Network Performance (Live Broadcast) Branch issued the ninth batch of warning lists. For the first time, illegal and unethical artists with bad social influences will boycott the live broadcast field to prevent them from relocating their positions and returning.
Xinhua News Agency reporter: What is the basis for policies and regulations for the association to carry out industry self-discipline work?
Head of China Performance Industry Association: The China Performance Industry Association is a national first-level organization approved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and is under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
In accordance with the "Regulations on Commercial Performance Management" promulgated by the State Council, the China Performance Industry Association fulfills the duties of formulating industry self-discipline standards, guiding and supervising members' business activities, etc., and clearly writes industry self-discipline work into the association's articles of association.
In 2017, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Industrial Organizations in the Cultural Field", which clearly required the cultural industry organizations to promote industry self-discipline and integrity building, and incorporate the integrity and self-discipline building content into the industry organization charter and establish Improve industry ethics and professional ethics.
In September 2021, the Central Propaganda Department issued the "Notice on Carrying out Comprehensive Management Work in the Cultural and Entertainment Fields", clearly prohibiting bad actors from relocating their positions, proposing to give play to the role of industry associations, strengthen the functions of professional ethics committees, actively carry out ethical reviews, and promptly respond to violations of laws and regulations. German personnel, brokerage companies and celebrity studios that condone illegal and unethical conduct conduct industry boycotts and joint punishments.
Xinhua News Agency reporter: What is the role of industry self-discipline in market regulation management?
What is the boundary?
Head of the China Performance Association: Industry self-discipline is an important part of the modern governance system.
To maintain the healthy and orderly development of the industry, we cannot rely solely on government supervision.
On the one hand, industry self-discipline is the industry’s compliance and implementation of national laws, regulations and policies; on the other hand, it is more proactive self-discipline based on industry consensus.
Enterprise entities unite to carry out industry self-discipline, which can not only assist the government in governance, but also effectively prevent business risks, which is conducive to the long-term interests of each member unit.
Industry self-discipline has clear boundaries, and self-discipline punishment is not an administrative punishment, and it is not compulsory.
In the online performance (live broadcasting) industry, an enterprise entity has the right to independently decide which anchor to sign with and provide live broadcasting services, and member units jointly decide to boycott illegal and unethical personnel, which is also a manifestation of enterprise entity independence.
There is a complete set of procedures for listing, reviewing, reviewing, appealing, and removing the list of warnings and the boycott of illegal and unethical personnel, all of which are regulated by industry self-discipline norms formulated by collective decision-making by member units.
The warning list is only valid within the scope of members and is implemented by the member units themselves.
Xinhua News Agency reporter: The self-discipline and punishment of entertainers has had a great social impact. The public is also very concerned about how the industry's self-discipline and punishment can ensure fairness and justice?
The person in charge of the China Performing Arts Association: The industry self-discipline work organized by the association currently has two different levels of supervision. One is the supervision of the competent department. According to the relevant self-discipline norms formulated by the association, the self-discipline review results are proactively reported to the competent department; the second is Supervision from members, in accordance with the association's articles of association, members have the right to criticize, suggest and supervise the social groups they belong to.
The "Administrative Measures for the Self-discipline of Performers in the Performance Industry (Trial)" formulated by the Association is a professional ethical code that regulates the behavior of practitioners.
In order to ensure the fairness and justice of the evaluation of practitioners’ moral self-discipline, the members participating in the evaluation come from all walks of life, including lawyers, elementary and middle school teachers, university scholars, heads of group organizations such as the Women’s Federation Youth League Committee, media reporters, and industry representatives, etc., and each time they participate The appraisal of industry representatives accounted for no more than one-third, and the appraisal results must be agreed by all members of the appraisal.
Persons who have been subject to self-discipline punishment may file objections to the association.
In the next step, the association will continue to promote the development of industry self-discipline work, strengthen the standardization of self-discipline norms, improve work transparency, gradually improve the industry self-discipline system, and actively cooperate with management departments to implement related work in the comprehensive management of the entertainment field.
Reporter: Bai Ying, Wang Peng