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Article: China Vows to Improve People's Cultural Life
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 23, 2002
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The first national conference on culture at the grassroots level
since the founding of new China in1949 is being held in Beijing from
Monday to Wednesday.
Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng said: "The conference itself
indicates that Chinese culture, especially culture at the grassroots
level, has been upgraded from a departmental activity to a government
activity."
With steady improvement in material living standards and the
obvious changes in knowledge levels, the cultural needs of both
urbanites and farmers have been increasingly diversified and
encouraged.
A study shows that per-capita amount spent on cultural items
inurban areas at the end of the 1990s was about 400 yuan (some 48
U.S. ...