President Xi Jinping called for efforts to promote the high-quality development of the tourism sector to speed up China’s building into a tourism powerhouse and boost economic growth.
President Xi, who is also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction on work related to the tourism sector.
He pointed out that China’s tourism development has made great progress, with the country’s tourism industry entering the fast lane and becoming the world’s largest domestic tourism market, the country with the world’s largest number of international tourists, and the country’s main destination. He said that it became the ground. For foreign tourists.
He said the country’s tourism sector has evolved from a small and weak industry to a new strategic pillar industry.
President Xi said that in a new era, a new journey, China’s tourism development faces new opportunities and challenges.
He emphasized the need to improve the modern tourism system and accelerate China’s building into a tourism powerhouse.
Li Xiulei, director of the propaganda department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, read out President Xi’s instructions at the National Tourism Development Conference in Beijing on Friday.
Speaking at the conference, Li emphasized the need to deeply study and implement President Xi’s instructions and statements on tourism development and promote the integrated development of tourism and culture.
He will focus on systematic and scientific planning, strengthen cultural heritage protection and ecological protection, improve market supply and tourism services, and promote international tourism exchange, in order to create new prospects for the country’s tourism development. He said there is a need to make efforts to deepen cooperation between the two countries.
Consumption of culture and tourism-related services has become a crucial pillar for stabilizing China’s economy.
In November, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced a domestic tourism promotion plan that focuses on offering a more diversified tourism product.
The China Tourism Academy predicts that domestic tourism will experience significant growth in both visitor numbers and revenue in 2024.
China is expected to receive more than 6 billion domestic visitors and tourism-related revenue of more than 6 trillion yuan ($828 billion) in 2024, according to a report released by the association in January. This confident forecast is based on the successful recovery of the tourism supply chain. Services and tourism economy in 2023.
