On the 25th, “New Era, New Vision and New Opportunities-Rural Culture Revitalization Forum” was held in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Experts and scholars discussed such topics as “Ecological Aesthetics and Rural Culture Revitalization”, “Traditional Culture and Rural Culture Revitalization” and “Cultural Tourism Development and Rural Revitalization”. The purpose of the forum is to deeply explore the excellent ideological value, humanistic spirit and moral norms contained in farming culture, combine the requirements of the times, creatively transform and develop on the basis of protection and inheritance, promote the development of rural cultural undertakings throughout the country, improve the rural cultural service system and promote the revitalization of rural culture. The forum was jointly sponsored by Luzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, China Academy of Art, Chinese Aesthetics Society and Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences.
“Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have insisted on organically combining rural revitalization with cultural revitalization, further promoted the construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas, extensively carried out the activities of’ Four Rites and New Winds Entering Thousands of Families’, and earnestly promoted educating people with culture and moral education. We vigorously inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, comprehensively strengthen the protection and utilization of national and provincial intangible cultural projects, and strive to improve the efficiency of village-level comprehensive cultural service centers. ” Yang Linxing, deputy secretary of Luzhou Municipal Committee and acting mayor, introduced that Luzhou explored and innovated the mode of “cultural tourism plus poverty alleviation”, and made great efforts to build a number of characteristic towns and cultural tourism projects such as Yaobayi in Hejiang County and Taohuawu in Jiangmen, xuyong county, which made the vast rural areas glow with vitality.