Culture and Tourism Ministry Senior Volunteer Service Program Held

Key points

• The Retired Officials Bureau of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently organized the 2026 'Culture and Tourism Gleanings, Silver-Age Light' senior volunteer service program.
• The program implements the 2026 'Our Chinese Dream—Culture into Thousands of Homes' and 'Spring Rain Project' arrangements, as well as the annual work plan of the ministry's senior volunteer service team.
• In Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, seven senior artists and experts visited local cultural centers, libraries, and art museums, giving three special public lectures on choral conducting, stage recitation, and youth reading promotion.
• The volunteer team jointly created five calligraphy and painting works with local practitioners and art enthusiasts.
• Nine senior members of the ministry's calligraphy, painting, and photography society conducted red-themed fieldwork in Yudu and Ruijin, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, visiting the Long March departure site and former Soviet-area revolutionary sites.
• The team also went to Jixi, Heilongjiang, for the 'Spring Rain Project' border calligraphy and painting exchange, with seven senior artists working at the grassroots in Jidong, Mishan, and Hulin.
• Next, the Retired Officials Bureau will continue leveraging the silver-age resource advantages of the senior volunteer service team to regularly carry out cultural benefit activities at the grassroots.