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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) — With economic growth and technological innovation remaining China's focus, cultural development is an important part of the country's development plan for the next five years.
According to the draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (2026-2030), one of the key goals is to achieve significant progress in culture and ethics. Among other priorities, this document advocates the need to strengthen confidence in Chinese culture, enrich the people's cultural experience, and develop the cultural industry.
The document's emphasis on culture reflects an important distinguishing feature of Chinese modernization: the coordinated development of material and spiritual culture.
Some analysts note that in some Western countries, growing inequality, lack of faith, and increasing cultural fragmentation are increasingly associated with a weakening of shared values and social cohesion.
In contrast, China emphasizes cultural and ethical development as the basis for strengthening social harmony and shared values in the context of a rapidly growing economy.
China actively promotes the core values of socialism, including prosperity, equality, justice, freedom, fairness and social responsibility, encourages innovation and creativity in the cultural field, strengthens public cultural infrastructure, promotes the preservation and continuity of the rich heritage of Chinese culture and civilization, and promotes the rapid development of cultural industries.
China has achieved remarkable success in developing its cultural sector. By the end of 2024, China had 3,248 public libraries and nearly 44,000 popular cultural institutions, and the number of library visits in 2024 reached 1.34 billion, more than double the 2014 figure.
In 2024, museums and other cultural heritage and relics preservation institutions held 30,000 exhibitions and displays, attracting 1.55 billion visitor visits, significantly exceeding the 2014 figure of 840 million. Across the country, 12,900 intangible cultural heritage workshops were established, providing employment and income to over 1.2 million people in related fields.
These figures highlight the steady expansion of China's cultural resources, the public's growing interest in heritage, and the economic dividends of a thriving cultural scene.
Over the past two years, the domestic fantasy animated film "Ne Zha 2" has become one of the highest-grossing animated films worldwide, and the Chinese video game "Black Myth: Wukong," inspired by classical Chinese mythology, has won international acclaim. Chinese web novels, microdramas, online games, and popular collectibles like Labubu continue to attract international audiences.
The above-mentioned document outlines specific steps for further cultural development within the framework of China's broader modernization program.
According to the document, the country intends to continue strengthening common values, creating high-quality cultural works, and improving public cultural services to ensure wider access to quality cultural goods.
Notably, the document places particular emphasis on the digital sphere. China strives to develop new forms of literature and art for the public in the internet age.
"In the age of social media, works by art lovers can now be displayed to a wider audience. Many of these lovers have left the auditorium and taken to the stage, transforming themselves from spectators into performers, from admirers into creators," said renowned sculptor Wu Weishan.
Today, a delivery driver can share poetry online, a farmer in the countryside can upload songs from the fields, and a migrant factory worker can write stories directly from the factory floor, reaching a vast audience that once seemed unattainable.
The document emphasizes the importance of cultural exchanges and global interactions, encouraging more Chinese cultural industry enterprises and the country's outstanding cultural products to enter the global market, while strengthening cross-border people-to-people exchanges.
In recent years, interest in Chinese culture has been growing worldwide, with hashtags such as “becoming Chinese” and “traveling in China” becoming popular on social media.
The next five years will reveal whether China's development model, based on both cultural and economic development, can ensure sustainability and confidence within the country and international recognition.
"China's modernization requires not only material prosperity but also a rich spiritual and cultural life," said Ouyang Qiansen, a member of the National People's Congress and chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Federation of Writers and Artists. -0-
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