On April 12th, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, together with six financial institutions including China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of China and Agricultural Development Bank of China, issued a notice to start the recommendation and selection of the 2019 national preferred cultural and tourism investment and financing projects (hereinafter referred to as “preferred projects”).
According to the notice, this preferred project includes eight application fields, including cultural and tourism infrastructure projects, cultural and tourism and related industry integration development projects, new formats of cultural and tourism industries, and new model projects. Among them, projects such as the construction of local cultural and tourism financial service centers, the construction of credit system for small and medium-sized micro-enterprises, the “double innovation” carrier in the cultural and tourism fields, and the professional space creation, as well as industrial projects in deep poverty areas, concentrated contiguous areas with special difficulties and old revolutionary base areas, industrial projects supporting the development of poverty-stricken areas and poverty-stricken people to get rid of poverty and become rich, and the “the belt and road initiative” key project of international cooperation in cultural industry and tourism industry of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will receive priority support in the application.
According to reports, the selected projects that have passed the final review will be included in the cultural and tourism industry project library of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s industrial project service platform, giving priority to support, and obtaining the opportunity to make key promotion in various promotion activities such as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s industrial project service platform and key exhibitions.
According to the application process, this project selection will be organized by local and municipal cultural and tourism departments for preliminary examination, provincial cultural and tourism departments for review, Ministry of Culture and Tourism for final examination, and cooperative financial institutions at all levels will also participate in the whole process. The deadline for project application is April 30th. (Zhang Jing)