Recently, The Development Plan of Culture and Tourism of the fourteenth five year plan (referred to as “Plan” in the following passage) has been established. It’s a complement result of The Outline of Long-Range Objective of 2035 and the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economy and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China and specific actions of the strategy of developing a strong culture.
The Plan sticks to see Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance; to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s spirit of a series of important instructions about culture and tourism in the whole plan; to grasp the new development stage, implement the new development theory and construct new development structure; to emphasize the theme of high-quality development, to implement central government’s decisions through scientific thoughts and concrete measures of cultural and tourism development of the fourteenth five-year plan; to cast soul with culture; to use culture to develop ability; to promote tourism for people; to let the culture play the leading role; to promote the integration between culture and tourism and to realize innovative development.
The Plan systematically illustrates the overall demands, goals, main tasks, important measures and so on. The Plan holds that governments must step on the right direction; stick to see people as the center of our work, innovation-driving force, deepening reform and opening up and integrated development; promote and improve social civilization; establish an art creation system for a new era, cultural heritage protection and inheritance system, modern public culture service system, communication and tourism promotion system with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macow and foreign countries; improve the scientific support level for cultural and tourism development and optimize the layout for outstanding culture and tourism. In 2025, we will strive to make significant progress in the building of a socialist country with strong cultural power; to have systems and mechanisms to develop high-quality cultural programs, cultural industries and tourism, so they can be strong driving forces for economic and social development and important supporters for China in comprehensive national strength competition. The Plan gives feasible and leading guidance. It also focuses on weakness improvement and long-term development and design 62 key projects as an important support.
Two years have been used to establish the Plan, from previous study and special research to text drafting and advice-seeking, so it’s a consensus with wisdom from all aspects. The Plan is a map and a task list of cultural and tourism development in the “fourteen five year plan”. After it’s establishment, there will be a series of specialized planning to perfect the designing and implement mechanisms of the “fourteen five year plan” so as to successfully launching all tasks of cultural and tourism development.