Wuhan, capital city of Central China's Hubei province, is to further advance its culture and tourism industry, it was announced at a press conference on Dec 22.
By 2035, Wuhan is set to become a city with strong cultural competitiveness.
The city will strengthen the construction of its major cultural facilities, and promote the construction of the Changjiang Digital Media City and the Wuhan Radio and Television Omnimedia Center.
It is to plan the construction of the Wuhan Opera Art Center and the new Wuhan Library, as well as strengthening the protection and utilization of its cultural heritage.
Wuhan will comprehensively upgrade the scale and quality of its cultural industry.
It will accelerate the development of new cultural enterprises, cultural formats, and cultural consumption models, and strive to cultivate and develop large-scale cultural enterprises with a national influence.
At the press conference, staff members from the city's statistics bureau said that during the process of recovery following the COVID-19 epidemic, the cultural industry has shown strong resilience and vitality, bucking the trend.
In the first three quarters of this year, the city's 916 cultural enterprises above a designated scale achieved an operating income of 130.69 billion yuan ($20.01 billion). This figure was an increase of 11.6 percent over the same period last year, and was higher than the national and provincial averages.
