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Shou Xiaoli:
Thanks to Mr. Zhang for the briefing. The floor is now open for questions. Please identify the news outlet you represent before asking your questions.
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The third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee has stressed that we will refine the mechanisms for supplying cultural services and products. What can be done to provide more high-quality cultural and tourism products and services, so as to better meet people's new expectations for their intellectual and cultural lives? Thank you.
Ming Wenjun:
Thank you for your question, I would like to share my view from the perspective of literature and art. We believe that the people's aspiration for a better life is often reflected in the needs for high-quality literary and artistic works. We have also been constantly improving the systems and mechanisms in this regard to further advance literary and artistic creation. We hope that through such initiatives, we can better meet the needs of the people.
First, the creation and production of more excellent literary and artistic works are the basis for our work. Just now, Mr. Zhang has introduced some excellent works for the stage that have recently become popular. These new and excellent works that young people love, such as "The Eternal Wave" and "A Tapestry of a Legendary Land," have set off a dance drama craze. At the same time, the Peking Opera in Beijing's opera houses, Kunqu Opera in Suzhou's gardens, Qinqiang Opera on Shaanxi's thousand-year-old city wall and Hebei Bangzi in local communities are all also singing about Chinese opera fever. These happy scenes are the result of the promotion of artistic creation planning by the local cultural and tourism departments. We will also continue to carry out a series of major art creation projects, in which planning plays a very important role. It will drive various categories of the arts to continuously launch excellent literary and artistic works, especially the introduction of wonderful small and medium-sized works of art such as opera excerpts, dances and children's songs. At the same time, we will also support the high-quality development of some artistic varieties, such as musicals, and increase support for Chinese opera, so as to enable more people from the generations born after 2000 and 2010 to love our fine traditional Chinese culture.
How will we achieve this? We will make great efforts to build and strengthen art troupes at all levels. Many large art troupes, famous art troupes and art troupes like Ulan Muqir, a traveling art troupe performing for herdsmen in remote areas, perform across the country all year round. They have made excellent art works popular at the city and community levels. We will provide category-based guidance and assistance to state-owned art troupes, private art performance groups, grassroots rural opera troupes and folk troupes, improving various construction mechanisms so as to promote their high-quality development. With these high-quality cultural resources, we will also continue to expand the channels for high-quality cultural resources to reach the grassroots level as well as further improve the mechanism for government procurement of performance services, which has been implemented for many years. We will make greater efforts to introduce opera into the villages, communities, campuses and streets, so as to bring brilliant performances to people in both urban and rural areas. We will continue to support digital performing arts' content to enter "small screens," "medium screens" and "big screens" by means of live broadcasts, performances and screenings, as well as will encourage famous artists and new talents to enter the live broadcast room, put excellent works on screens and explore the opening of a second theater online, so that more audiences can share in the achievements of literary and artistic innovation and development.
The film "A Tapestry of a Legendary Land" adapted from a stage drama will be released nationwide tomorrow, adding splendor to the National Day holiday. I hope many people will go to the movies to enjoy it.
Literature and art should provide good content for culture and tourism's integration. Many friends have fallen in love with the regions south of the Yangtze River because of Kunqu Opera, storytelling and ballad singing in Suzhou dialect. They have walked into the Kuanzhai Alley because of Sichuan Opera. They have immersed themselves in the Unique Henan · Land of Drama theater complex in Henan's Zhengzhou and the Unique Dream of Red Mansion theater complex in Hebei's Langfang. In addition, they have visited beautiful Xinjiang after watching the TV series "To the Wonder" or the evening gala called "Lift Your Veil: Xinjiang is a Good Place." We will continue to improve the level of integration of literature and art with tourism, so that literature and art can promote innovation within the market, empower industries and enrich tourism. At the same time, we have also actively promoted international people-to-people exchanges and cooperation through literature and art. A few days ago, the National Ballet of China marked the 60th anniversary of the premiere of "The Red Detachment of Women." Over the past 60 years, this famous drama has been performed nearly 5,000 times at home and abroad across five continents, arousing a wide range of resonance and receiving high praise from audiences. Recently, the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater's martial arts-themed "Wing Chun," which has also been performed overseas, has sparked a lot of cross-country appreciation from the audience.
In the next phase, we will also promote more excellent theatrical works internationally, sharing Chinese stories and emotions with the world while highlighting humanity's shared future and struggles. Recently, many young people have fallen in love with Yue Opera because of "New Dragon Inn," especially the wonderful performance of the actress in the male role, demonstrating the public's appetite for fresh artistic talent and new productions. We're committed to building broader platforms that showcase promising, hardworking newcomers and creating venues for innovative, boutique productions, ensuring our artistic stage remains vibrant and diverse. Thank you.
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