Xinhua News Agency:

As we all know, Zhejiang is a big and strong cultural province. In recent years, what efforts has Zhejiang made regarding cultural construction and what results have been achieved? What are your next measures and plans? Thank you.

Zhu Guoxian:

Thank you for your attention to Zhejiang's cultural development. Culture is like an endless river, running from ancient times, through to today, and towards the future. It is our duty and mission to continue the five thousand years of Chinese culture and continue to write a new chapter of Zhejiang culture in the new era. Over the years, Zhejiang has conscientiously implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on cultural construction and the CPC Central Committee's decisions and deployments, keeping to the right path, while making innovations and breakthroughs, so as to setting new standards to strongly promote cultural reform and development. Here, I want to use the phrase "four cultures" to summarize:

The first is to create a blueprint for cultural development. During his previous local governing work in Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping regarded cultural construction as an important part of the "Double-Eight Strategy" and tailored a strategic framework system for Zhejiang to build it into a cultural province. Over the years, Zhejiang has persisted in completing this blueprint, with efforts made by one leadership term after another. The "Eight Projects" of cultural construction that General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned back then have become more and more brilliant. At present, the achievements of Zhejiang's cultural construction are the blossom and fruit of the Double-Eight Strategy and the Eight Projects of cultural construction.

The second is nurturing culture with the Chinese revolutionary spirit. Mr. Yuan described just now how the Chinese Revolutionary Red Boat set sail from Nanhu Lake, the birthplace of our Party. At the same time, Zhejiang is an important birthplace of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We will make full use of the resource advantages of China's red roots, continue to inherit the Chinese revolutionary spirit, and strive to be the vanguard of learning, comprehending, and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Through theoretical education and efforts in maintaining our original aspiration, the officials and people in Zhejiang have a more sincere feeling and deeper understanding of protecting the Chinese revolutionary spirit.

The third is integrating urban and rural areas to facilitate cultural development. We have always followed the principle of "integration of urban and rural areas, comprehensive coverage, joint contributions, and shared benefits," so that the achievements of cultural development will benefit a wider range of people. The standardization of basic public cultural services in Zhejiang province has taken the lead for realization. In recent years, the Grand Canal Cultural Cluster, the Hangzhou branch of the China Archives of Publications, the Hengdian film and television cultural industry cluster, and the Zhijiang Cultural Center have been built. The China Academy of Art and the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music also sit next to Zhijiang Cultural Center, which forms the city's west art corridor and brilliantly pairs with the Hangzhou West Science and Innovation Corridor, as Mr. Yuan mentioned just now. Zhejiang has vigorously carried out publicity activities that are popular among citizens, especially young ones, such as the Theoretic Publicity Group for the New Era formed by people born in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The Zhejiang government also promotes the Party's innovative theories, which access millions of households. Zhejiang has become the first province where all cities under its jurisdiction were awarded as national civilized cities. The building of civilized cities has expanded from individual cases to a broader range, incentivizing every Zhejiang citizen to become an ambassador for this civilization.

The fourth is empowering a strong culture through reform. In as early as 2003, Zhejiang, as the country's pilot province for comprehensive reform of its cultural system, pioneered exploration in cultural reform, and the results of these reforms have continuously transformed into development achievements over the years. High-quality TV series such as "Diplomatic Situation," "Feather Flies to the Sky," "Family on the Go," "Wang Yangming," and "Top Secret Mission," all produced in Zhejiang, have generated great social influence, while the four poetry road cultural belts -- the East Zhejiang Tang-Dynasty Poetry Road, Qiantang River Poetry Road, the Grand Canal Poetry Road, and Oujiang River Poetry Road -- have become important iconic landmarks. The comprehensive index for Zhejiang's cultural industry development has ranked second in China for three consecutive years. Currently, Zhejiang is leading, leveraging, and empowering cultural construction with digital reforms.

Recently, the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee carried out intensive inspection on cultural construction, made special plans, and put forward the overall requirements and key tasks for building a cultural highland in a new era both in the immediate future and for some time to come. We will strive to build Zhejiang into a pioneering province in China by continuing to deepen the Eight Projects. In accordance with the overall goal of "building a culturally-advanced province, enhancing the soft power of culture, fostering people through culture, and leading the new trend of society," we will also comprehensively implement Zhejiang's cultural projects in the new era as leverage, exert efforts to enlighten people through theoretical education, build morality with the Chinese revolution spirit, shape personality with culture, build integrity with four rules (rule of oneself, rule of law, rule of virtue, rule of wisdom), build our standing in the world through high-quality works, build innovations with smart manufacturing and via the digital economy, build industry with integration, and build the system through reform. We will strive to create a province of thoughts, a province of spiritual prosperity, the most beautiful province, a province of integrity, a province of original literary and artistic creation, a province with a strong digital culture, a province of modern communications, and a province of cultural vitality. We will also construct cultural development strategic patterns, build a major platform for high-level cultural development, cultivate a team of high-level cultural talents, introduce iconic cultural achievements and cultural symbols, and strive to create a cultural highland in the new era that matches with Zhenjiang's key objective of developing into a pioneering province in China's socialist modernization drive. Finally, we will fully demonstrate the beauty of culture, landscapes, morals, and fashion in Zhejiang. Thank you.