China's cultural input generally inadequate
According to the Bureau of the National Secretary of Culture, China's culture investment is insufficient; and cultural facilities are backward, especially in rural areas. Public cultural input is seriously inadequate.
In 2006, financial departments in rural areas invested a total of 4.46 billion yuan into cultural development: only 28.5 percent of the country's total cultural financial investment. The proportion of urban cultural investment is as much as 71.5%: 43 percentage points higher than in rural areas. Deducting investment in the county's cultural institutions, in 2006, only 1.09 billion yuan was given to township cultural centers – 1.48 yuan per farmer – which provide 737 million farmers with cultural services. A severe shortage of publicly – financed cultural investment results in a majority of inadequate cultural facilities in backward rural areas and farmers who have a poor cultural life.
Therefore, the Ministry of Culture will coordinate urban and rural cultural development this year; and will make publicly-financed cultural investment, building cultural facilities and the protection of the rural grass-roots our focus. We will gradually establish urban cultural services to facilitate the radiation of culture into rural areas and alter the culturally backward conditions of rural areas.
By People's Daily Online
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