On March 26, 2024, the National Conference on the Development of Culture and Tourism Industry was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Du Jiang, member of the party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

The conference pointed out that in 2023, the national culture and tourism system overcame difficulties, strengthened the top-level design of the industry, unleashed the consumption potential of culture and tourism; promoted the in-depth integration of the industry, and facilitated the vigorous development of new forms of business; actively expanded effective investment, and focused on optimizing enterprise services; strengthened regional synergy, and enhanced the quality of foreign trade, and achieved positive results in various tasks.

The conference emphasized that there is a vast space for the development of the culture and tourism industry, and that it is necessary to further play an important role in stabilizing growth and expanding domestic demand, and to promote the culture and tourism industry to become an important kinetic energy for the development of the new quality of productive forces and an important pillar for the realization of high-quality development.

The conference proposed that to do a good job in the industry in 2024, it is necessary to strengthen the policy planning leadership, stimulate the consumption potential of culture and tourism, develop digital culture and tourism industry, grasp the project construction, promote the deep integration of the industry, cultivate and expand the market main body, deepen the international cooperation of the industry, and strive to create a new situation for the high-quality development of the culture and tourism industry.

At the conference, representatives of cultural and tourism administrations and associations of relevant provinces and cities made exchange speeches.

Comrades from the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Commerce and other relevant departments of the central and state organs, comrades in charge of the relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and enterprises directly under the Ministry, comrades in charge of the culture and tourism administrations of provinces, autonomous regions, cities and municipalities and cities separately listed in the plan, as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and representatives of culture and tourism enterprises, industry associations and financial institutions, etc. attended the conference.