On September 12th, National Rural Tourism and Home Stay Work Meeting was held in the Yuzhong County of Lanzhou City in Gansu Province. In the meeting, people learned the spirit of important speeches on rural tourism delivered by the general secretary Xi Jinping; summarized experience; analyzed relating situations and tasks and deployed for high-quality development of rural tourism. Hu Heping, minister and secretary of leading party group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and Tang Renjian, governor and deputy secretary of provincial party committee of Gansu Province, attended and delivered speeches. Wang Xiaofeng, member of leading party group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, hosted the meeting. Other attendees included Li Rongcan, member of the standing committee of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee and secretary of the Municipal Committee of Lanzhou, He Wei, vice governor of Gansu Province, and Zhan Dongsheng, vice president of Agricultural Bank of China.
Hu Heping said that the fundamental principles of rural tourism was general secretary Xi Jinping’s important guidance on cultural construction and tourism development, his strategy on the rural revitalization and poverty alleviation. We needed to improve political stance and implement tasks when adhered to the principle of “firmly safeguard general secretary Xi Jinping as the core of the CPC Central Committee and of the CPC as well as firmly safeguard the authority and the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC”.
Hu Heping stressed that on the basis of routine pandemic prevention and control, we needed to take active, effective and targeted measures to develop rural tourism as well as to do well in the “six stabilizing” and the “six guarantee”. In addition, we would realize high-quality development by sticking to new development ideology; adhering to high-quality development requirements, assisting to implement strategies of rural revitalization and poverty alleviation; focusing on people’s demand to lead a better life; increasing the supply of high-quality products of rural tourism; transforming the driving force of rural tourism from resource to innovation and improve the comprehensive benefit of rural tourism.
Hu Heping said that tourism was an important way of poverty alleviation. We needed to make full use of our advantages; to spend more effort in work and take effective measures and to reduce the impact of the pandemic to minimum, so as to achieve satisfying result. Rural home stay was a significant part of rural tourism system and an important way to develop rural economy. The authority should use problem-oriented and goal-oriented working methods to solve bottleneck problem of rural home stay and support it’s healthy and sustainable development by focusing on development and standard management.
On the meeting released the list of the second batch of key villages for rural tourism decided by the Ministry of Cultural and Tourism and National Development and Reform Commission. Representatives from those villages were also awarded. Those spoke in the meeting were representatives from National Development and Reform Commission, Poverty Alleviation Office of The State Council and Agricultural Bank of China.
Attended the meeting were 150 people from officials in charge of culture and tourism departments (bureaus) of provinces (districts or cities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; representatives from extremely poor areas; representatives from the second batch of national rural tourism key villages and representatives of home stay practitioners.