On May 12, the 5th Chinese Opera Festival, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Zhejiang Provincial Government, opened at the Great Hall of the People in Zhejiang Province. Hu Heping, Vice Minister of the Central Propaganda Department in charge of daily work, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of Culture and Tourism, and Wang Hao, Deputy Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Zhejiang Province, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. The opening ceremony was presided over by Hu Wei, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, and attended by Wu Jing, vice director of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress, and Cheng Yuechong, vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Hu Heping said that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has deeply studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse on the work of literature and art, and has introduced policies, established mechanisms, and built platforms for the creation and performance of operas and the training of talents, as well as the cultivation of the performance market, the creation of brand activities, and foreign exchanges and cooperation. In particular, it will implement the Chinese National Opera Heritage Development Project, and organize the creation and release of a number of masterpieces that eulogize the great era, reflect people's lives, and win wide acclaim. The Chinese Opera Festival has always been adhering to the purpose of “a grand event of opera art and a festival for the people”, and has become a beautiful window and a broad stage for displaying the achievements of opera creation and assisting the development of opera art, so as to provide the people with a sumptuous feast of opera art. The majority of literary and art workers should deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition, adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, adhere to the nourishment drawn from daily life, adhere to the righteousness and innovation, adhere to the position of the Chinese culture, take creation as the core task, take performances as the central link, and launch more outstanding works with profound thoughts, exquisite skills and excellent production, so as to distinctly establish the Chinese style in the field of the world's art.
Wang Hao said that in recent years, Zhejiang in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the work of arts and culture, unswervingly along the direction of the General Secretary's guidance to stride forward, adhere to paint a blueprint to the end, vigorously develop the cultural undertakings and cultural industries, and has produced a large number of opera masterpieces such as The Red Boat and Deer Songs. At present, Zhejiang is fully implementing the spirit of the twentieth CPC National Congress and “Eight-eight strategy”, to create an “important window” of common prosperity and provincial modernization, and vigorously promote the deepening of innovation, reform and openness to enhance the Chinese-style modernization of Zhejiang chapter. Zhejiang will take the Chinese Opera Festival as an opportunity to further strengthen cultural self-confidence, accelerate the construction of cultural Zhejiang, create a cultural highland in the new era, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of a strong cultural country.
After the opening ceremony, the opera Red Boat was performed, which vigorously carries forward the spirit of the great founding of the Party, and magnificently recreates the glorious course of the Chinese communists in opening up the world and navigating the revolution. This year's Chinese Opera Festival brings together 24 outstanding opera works, will hold a series of activities such as excellent repertoire exhibition, classic opera exhibition week, repertoire reviews, national opera creative talents training courses, opera public service. Hong Kong SAR arts organization participated in the festival for the first time.