Cctv news(News broadcast): The the State Council Press Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Opening by authoritative departments" today (December 14). Relevant officials of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism introduced the situation of accelerating the construction of a cultural power 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 an offline audience of 900,000 people and an online viewing volume of over 1.8 billion times. A number of stage art works that showed the Chinese aesthetic style and had a 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, 43 of which are listed in UNESCO’s non-legacy list (roster), and the number of Chinese world heritage has increased to 57.

Enrich the supply of high-quality tourism products. At present, there are 14,900 A-level scenic spots, 111 national tourist and leisure blocks, 243 national night culture and tourism consumption gathering areas, and 1,597 national rural tourism key villages and towns. Eight villages have been selected as "the best tourist villages" by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, which has become a typical case of rural revitalization with culture and tourism empowerment.

Source: CCTV