The Press Office of the State Council held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Opening by Authorities" today (December 14th). Relevant officials of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism introduced the situation of accelerating the construction of a strong cultural country and promoting the high-quality development of culture and tourism.
Prosperous development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, and promotion of urban and rural public cultural service system to improve quality and efficiency. In the first 11 months of this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism hosted 27 exhibitions, with 900,000 offline audiences and more than 1.8 billion online views. A number of stage art works that showed Chinese aesthetic style and distinctive flavor of the times were widely praised.
To protect, inherit and carry forward Chinese excellent traditional culture, major projects such as the Chinese civilization tracing project and the archaeological China have been carried out in depth. Up to now, there are more than 100,000 non-legacy representative projects at all levels in China, including 1,557 national non-legacy representative projects, and 43 projects have been listed in UNESCO’s non-legacy list and roster. The number of world heritage sites in China has increased to 57.