Development Plan for the Cultural Industry during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period

The Plan is designed to optimize the structure of the cultural industry through supply side structural reform. It focuses on developing backbone cultural enterprises and creative cultural industry, fostering emerging cultural industry forms, boosting the transformation and upgrading of the cultural industry sector, and improving its quality and efficiency in an effort to build a modern cultural industrial system with reasonable structure, complete categories, high scientific and technological content, full of creativity and strong competitiveness. It aims to implement the innovation-driven development strategy to promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of performing arts, entertainment, animation, games, creative design, Internet culture, cultural tourism, artworks, arts and crafts, cultural exhibitions, as well as cultural equipment manufacturing. The leapfrog development of these key areas will make the cultural industry sector the pillar of the national economy. It aims to modernize the governance system and competence of the cultural sector, innovate institutional mechanism for cultural industry development, improve cultural industry policies, laws and regulations, accelerate the legislation process, implement cultural economic policies, intensify talent support, optimize public services, and enhance statistical application so as to foster a favorable environment for the cultural industry development in an all-round way.