From December 11 to 12, 2022 China Tourism Group Development Forum was held in a combination of offline and online, with the theme of "Policy Promotion, Industry Innovation and Tourism Recovery". Hu Heping, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, delivered a video speech.

 Hu Heping pointed out that since 2020, China's tourism development has faced unprecedented challenges. The Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, attaches great importance to the recovery and development of tourism, and the State Council has introduced a series of inclusive policies and targeted help initiatives. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the culture and tourism system has risen to the challenge, both by strictly implementing the requirements for epidemic prevention and control, and by innovating and launching new tourism products, services, and modes, striving to meet the people's spiritual and cultural needs, and stabilizing the industry's basic development. The 20th Party Congress put forward new and higher requirements for promoting the integrated development of culture and tourism in the new era. In the next stage, we should study and implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress in depth, take high-quality development as the goal, take reform and innovation as the driving force, take the promotion of the in-depth integration of culture and tourism as an important hand, accelerate the improvement of the modern tourism system, continue to enrich the supply of high-quality tourism products and services, better satisfy the people's needs for a better life, and endeavor to make tourism become an important engine for economic development, a vivid course for firming up cultural self-confidence, and an important window for displaying China's image. and an important window to show China's image. It is necessary to deeply promote mass tourism, adhere to the concept of tourism for the people, promote the supply-side structural reform of tourism, and focus on demand-side management. It is necessary to accelerate the cultivation of smart tourism, promote digital tourism and smart tourism, strengthen smart tourism management and smart services, and enrich smart application scenarios. It is necessary to explore the development of green tourism, practice the concept of green development, fully consider the ecological carrying capacity of tourism resources, natural restoration, and realize the unity of ecological protection and tourism development. To actively advocate civilized tourism, in-depth civilized creation of the tourism industry, civilized practice, and continue to carry out civilized tourism public service propaganda, education and guidance and volunteer services. To vigorously promote the deep integration of culture and tourism, adhere to the cultural shaping tourism, tourism highlighting the culture, so that "poetry" and "far away" can achieve a better connection and create a better life.

Organized by the China Tourism Research Institute and China National Tourism Association, the forum had its main venues in Beijing and Shanghai, and branch venues in major tourism groups. Duan Qiang, President of China Tourism Association, and He Chaoqiong, Vice Chairman of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, made opening speeches, while Chen Yin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of China National Tourism Group, made a keynote speech. The forum included opening ceremony, main forum, keynote speeches, high-end dialogues, etc. Participants discussed the sub-themes of market changes and investment strategies, product R&D and project development, tourism groups and destination construction. The forum released the Report on the Development of China's Tourism Grouping (2022), as well as reports on the development of China's domestic tourism, national leisure, outbound tourism, inbound tourism, tourism lodging industry, tourism scenic spots and resorts, and travel service industry from 2022 to 2023, and also released the 2022 Innovation Cases of the Tourism Industry, and so on.