China News Service, August 24. The Central Propaganda Department held a series of press conferences on the theme of "China's Decade" on August 24, introducing the promotion of high-quality development of culture and tourism in the new era.
Rao Quan, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, introduced at the meeting that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has adhered to the mission of raising the flag, gathering people's hearts, cultivating new talents, revitalizing culture, and displaying image. Changwen promotes the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings, cultural industries and tourism, and draws a new picture of "poetry" and "distance". It has laid a solid foundation for accelerating the building of a socialist cultural power and creating a new splendor of Chinese culture.
First, artistic creation continues to flourish, promoting the unity of meeting the cultural needs of the people and enhancing the spiritual strength of the people.
We continue to improve the working mechanism with creation as the core task and performance as the central link, implement the national stage art creation support project, the new era series of art creation projects, etc., and actively build a new era art creation system.
Major theatrical performances such as "The Great Journey", "Struggle, Chinese Children" and "Our Forty Years" were successfully held, singing the main theme of the times and depicting the magnificent chapter of the new era.
Increase the support of the National Art Fund, give full play to the leading role of various literary and art awards and performances and exhibitions, adhere to the integration of online and offline, perform performances and broadcasts simultaneously, and promote the continuous emergence of outstanding works, breaking the screen and going out of the circle. Literary and artistic works such as the dance drama "Only Green", the opera "Yimeng Mountain", and the drama "Gu Wenchang" have been widely acclaimed.
The second is that the modern public cultural service system is improving day by day, promoting people's spiritual life towards common prosperity.
The Public Cultural Service Guarantee Law, the Public Library Law, the Museum Regulations, and the National Guiding Standards for Basic Public Cultural Services have been promulgated successively, effectively protecting the basic cultural rights and interests of the masses.
Actively build a six-level public cultural service network from the country to the village (community).
By the end of 2021, there are 3,215 public libraries, 3,316 cultural centers, 40,200 cultural stations, and 575,400 village-level comprehensive cultural service centers nationwide.
All public libraries, cultural centers (stations), art galleries and 91% of museums are free to open.
People-benefiting projects such as "Opera into the Village" were implemented in depth, and brand cultural activities such as "Village Evening" were widely carried out, making the cultural life of the masses more colorful.
The construction of the smart library system and the public cultural cloud has been accelerated, and new public cultural spaces have emerged. From the "cloud" to the "fingertips", public cultural services are more convenient and more "tasteful".
Third, the industry has a strong momentum of development, and the vitality of innovation and creativity is bursting out.
The cultural and tourism industry system has been gradually improved, the standard system has been continuously improved, and the industrial scale has continued to grow.
In 2019, the added value of cultural and related industries reached 4,436.3 billion yuan, and the added value of tourism and related industries reached 4,498.9 billion yuan, accounting for 4.50% and 4.56% of GDP respectively.
The digital cultural industry is developing rapidly, and new formats such as "cloud exhibition", online studio, webcast, and immersive experience are accelerating.
Mass tourism and smart tourism continue to develop. Self-driving tourism, camping tourism, ice and snow tourism, health tourism, and marine tourism lead the new trend of leisure and vacation.
Cultural creativity, intangible cultural heritage workshops, and rural tourism continue to empower rural revitalization.
Red tourism and tourism performances are booming, and the integration of culture and tourism is further promoted.
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, the cultural industry and tourism industry have been severely impacted. We have worked hard to help enterprises with practical measures. Enterprises actively rescue themselves and do not "lay flat", and promote the cultural and tourism industries to boost confidence and stabilize for the better.
Fourth, the protection, inheritance and promotion of cultural heritage have achieved remarkable results, and promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture.
The heritage of cultural heritage resources has been gradually ascertained.
As of the end of 2021, there are 108 million state-owned movable cultural relics (sets), 767,000 immovable cultural relics, 5,058 national key cultural relics protection units, and 6,183 registered museums; my country has more than 100,000 representative intangible cultural heritage projects at all levels. , including 1,557 national-level intangible cultural heritage representative projects; more than 90,000 representative inheritors at all levels, including 3,062 national-level intangible cultural heritage representative inheritors; 13,026 national precious ancient book lists, and 203 national ancient book key protection units; There are 56 world heritage sites, ranking second in the world; 42 items are included in the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list and list items, ranking first in the world.
The Chinese civilization exploration project, cultural relics protection project, revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization project, the major project of "Archaeological China", the protection plan of Chinese ancient books, the revitalization plan of Chinese traditional crafts, etc. Construction is progressing steadily.
The recovery and return of lost overseas cultural relics has yielded fruitful results, with more than 1,800 pieces (sets) of lost cultural relics returned to the motherland.
Cultural heritage is further "revitalized", "archaeology craze", "museum craze", "intangible heritage craze" and "ancient book craze" have become commonplace, and the national trend and national style have become a new fashion for young people.
Fifth, foreign exchanges and cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have been deepened, and the cultural and tourism fields have been opened to the outside world at a higher level.
An all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging pattern of foreign cultural and tourism exchanges and cooperation has been gradually established.
A series of major cultural events were successfully held in cooperation with the diplomacy of the head of state, the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, and the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations.
The construction of overseas Chinese cultural centers has been accelerated.
It has stationed cultural and tourism institutions in 93 countries, and signed intergovernmental cultural and tourism cooperation agreements with 157 countries.
Actively participate in the formulation of international rules.
The foreign cultural trade system is improving day by day, core cultural products and services are going overseas, and exports are growing rapidly.
The cultural and tourism year (festival) and brand activities such as "Happy Chinese New Year" and "Beautiful China" have a wide range of influences, effectively creating a credible, lovely and respectable image of China.
It has deeply cultivated the culture and tourism of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and continued to carry out brand activities such as "Art Ocean Flow Gold" and "Love China", so as to concentrate and enhance recognition.
Rao Quan pointed out that based on the new development stage, we will implement new development concepts, serve and integrate into the new development pattern, promote the high-quality development of culture and tourism, and strive to make new and greater contributions to building a socialist cultural power.