China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Issues 15th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Industry

Key points

• China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Industry Development, setting overall requirements, key tasks and safeguards.
• The plan calls for upgrading traditional cultural sectors, accelerating new cultural formats and cultivating leading cultural enterprises and brands to raise industrial sophistication and supply chain modernization.
• The plan calls for faster technological, scenario and model innovation in traditional cultural industries, including online performances and smart theaters, and multi-format performance spaces.
• The plan supports applying future technologies such as quantum technology, embodied intelligence, brain-computer interfaces and 6G in the cultural industry.
• The plan calls for deepening cultural-tourism integration and promoting brands such as traveling with performances, films and intangible heritage.
• The plan sets out measures to upgrade cultural consumption, expand effective investment in cultural industries and improve the quality and volume of foreign cultural trade.