Recently, six departments including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued the Implementation Plan for Promoting Equipment Renewal in the Culture and Tourism Sectors. The Plan proposes that by 2027, efforts will be made to guide and promote the renewal of a batch of facilities and equipment across the country's culture and tourism sectors, maintain sustained and steady growth in the scale of related investment, comprehensively improve service quality, and promote high-quality development of culture and tourism.

The Plan deploys actions in eight areas: First, implement the action to renew and upgrade sightseeing facilities, renewing and upgrading tourist transport equipment and tourism sightseeing equipment. Second, implement the action to renew and upgrade amusement facilities. Third, implement the action to renew and upgrade performance equipment. Fourth, implement the action to transform and upgrade smart culture and tourism, renewing and upgrading intelligent management and service equipment and immersive experience equipment. Fifth, implement the action to enhance the capacity for cultural relic protection and utilization, accelerating the replacement of outdated equipment in museums and renewing and upgrading equipment for cultural relic surveying, research, and display. Sixth, implement the action to promote high-tech development of the film industry, driving quality upgrading of film shooting, improving the overall level of film production, and advancing independent innovation in film projection technology. Seventh, implement the action to renew and upgrade high-definition and ultra-high-definition equipment, enhancing the production, broadcasting, and transmission coverage capacity of ultra-high-definition channels and accelerating the upgrading of content production, broadcasting, transmission, and emission equipment. Eighth, implement the action to protect famous historical and cultural cities and blocks, renewing and upgrading protection management and monitoring equipment.

The Plan makes clear that localities should coordinate funds from multiple channels and provide active support. Culture and tourism enterprises and public institutions are encouraged to use their own funds to actively carry out equipment renewal and improve service quality. Eligible key projects will be included in the scope of funding support such as ultra-long-term special government bonds. Policy-based and commercial financial institutions are guided to strengthen support for equipment renewal in the culture and tourism sectors.

The main contents of the Plan are as follows:

Implementation Plan for Promoting Equipment Renewal in the Culture and Tourism Sectors

To promote equipment renewal in the culture and tourism sectors, we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and, in accordance with the arrangements of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Fourth Meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, coordinate the expansion of domestic demand with the deepening of supply-side structural reform, promote high-quality development of culture and tourism, and provide strong support for developing new quality productive forces.

I. Overall Requirements

Adhere to coordinated efforts in both the public-service and industrial fields: for the industrial field, rely mainly on the market to provide diversified supply; for the public service field, increase policy and funding support. Adhere to synchronous improvement of equipment levels and service levels, coordinate equipment renewal with institutional and mechanism improvement and supporting resource input, and truly enable the people to perceive the results of equipment renewal. Adhere to doing as much as possible within our means, give priority to replacing equipment that has long been out of repair, strictly prevent debt risks, and ensure sustainable application. Strive to, by 2027, guide and promote the renewal of a batch of facilities and equipment across the country's culture and tourism sectors, maintain sustained and steady growth in the scale of related investment, comprehensively improve service quality, and promote high-quality development of culture and tourism.

II. Key Tasks

(1) Implement the action to renew and upgrade sightseeing facilities.

1. Renew and upgrade tourist transport equipment. Promote the renewal and upgrading of transport equipment such as cableways and cable cars, elevators, and similar equipment in key tourist attractions, *** tourist resorts, public cultural venues, and other places; eliminate outdated equipment whose transport capacity cannot meet demand, which requires frequent repair and maintenance, or which has been in service for an excessively long time; and enhance tourist reception capacity and service levels.

2. Renew and upgrade tourism sightseeing equipment. Promote the upgrading of land, water, and air tourism sightseeing equipment in key tourist attractions, and renew a batch of advanced equipment featuring high technology, high efficiency, high reliability, and low energy consumption, including off-road tourism sightseeing vehicles, RV self-driving campsite facilities, ice and snow tourism equipment, sightseeing cruise ships, tourist sightseeing boats, speedboats, low-altitude aircraft, and others.

(2) Implement the action to renew and upgrade amusement facilities.

3. Renew and upgrade amusement facilities. Promote the renewal of a batch of highly reliable advanced amusement equipment in amusement parks, urban parks, and other places to improve the safe operation level of facilities. Promote the renewal and upgrading of game and entertainment equipment, encourage the use of equipment with high technological content, high energy efficiency ratings, and good immersive experience, and better meet consumers' cultural and entertainment needs.

(3) Implement the action to renew and upgrade performance equipment.

4. Renew and upgrade performance equipment. Promote the renewal of stage lighting, sound, display, machinery, special effects, and other equipment as well as corresponding control system equipment in venues for artistic performances and tourism performances; encourage relevant performance entities to renew a batch of equipment with high safety, excellent stage effects, strong stability, and high energy efficiency ratings, so as to better meet the needs of stage content creation and display and the audience's viewing needs.

(4) Implement the action to transform and upgrade smart culture and tourism.

5. Renew and upgrade intelligent management and service equipment. Promote the renewal of smart service equipment such as guidance and navigation, exhibition and display, inquiry and reading dissemination, and tourist and reader services in key tourist attractions and public cultural venues, as well as smart management equipment such as access gates, emergency broadcasting, and inspection and monitoring, so as to improve the level of intelligent services.

6. Renew and upgrade immersive experience equipment. Promote high-quality culture and tourism enterprises and public institutions to renew digital projection equipment, intelligent cultural equipment, intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for entertainment, and others; create immersive and intelligent new products, new content, and new scenarios; cultivate new business forms; and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional business forms.

(5) Implement the action to enhance the capacity for cultural relic protection and utilization.

7. Accelerate the replacement of outdated equipment in museums. Promote museums to accelerate the elimination of outdated, inefficient, and overdue equipment, and to iteratively upgrade packaging facilities such as acid-free paper storage boxes for precious cultural relics, dense storage cabinets for cultural relics, and constant-temperature low-reflection glass display cases. Promote the renewal and transformation of central air conditioning, constant-temperature and constant-humidity equipment, and others, and promote the application of energy-saving equipment with energy efficiency grade II or above.

8. Renew and upgrade equipment for cultural relic surveying, research, and display. Promote national archaeological site parks, key research bases and joint workstations, key archaeological institutions, important cave temple protection institutions, and other entities to renew and upgrade exhibition and display facilities and equipment, large laboratory equipment, archaeological cabins, on-site platforms, and others. Build test platforms for the protection of immovable cultural relics, and renew and equip large-displacement actuators, accelerated aging devices, and others. Promote the equipment configuration and renewal of archaeological specimen warehouses in key national regions.

(6) Implement the action to promote high-tech development of the film industry.

9. Promote quality upgrading of film shooting. Promote the renewal and transformation of hardware facilities in key film bases (parks), and explore the formulation of standardized shooting techniques and processes for high-tech format films. Encourage film production-related enterprises and equipment leasing companies to upgrade cameras, lighting, storage, and other equipment that meet the requirements of high-tech formats.

10. Improve the overall level of film production. Encourage the use of new technologies and new equipment such as artificial intelligence, virtual shooting, and virtual pre-visualization in film visual effects and post-production. Promote the upgrading and transformation of the film post-production equipment system to achieve high-tech and standardization. Promote the establishment and upgrading of cloud production platforms and cloud data centers, and consolidate the industry's common production technology and computing power foundation.

11. Advance independent innovation in film projection technology. Promote the new-generation cinema equipment system, implement on a large scale the renewal plan for cinema LED screen projection systems, strengthen cinema equipment brands with independent intellectual property rights, reshape the business form of film projection, and provide audiences with more comfortable, convenient, and rich film consumption services. Encourage the upgrading and replacement of public welfare projection equipment in rural areas, schools, communities, and other places, and improve the quality of film public services.

(7) Implement the action to renew and upgrade high-definition and ultra-high-definition equipment.

12. Enhance the production, broadcasting, and transmission coverage capacity of ultra-high-definition channels. Promote some provinces and sub-provincial cities with the necessary conditions to launch 4K ultra-high-definition channels and strive for nationwide coverage; build 4K ultra-high-definition acquisition and shooting systems, post-production systems, media asset systems, broadcasting systems, transmission and distribution systems, and others; rapidly form a large-scale service supply effect for ultra-high-definition channels; drive the optimization, upgrading, and integration of the entire ultra-high-definition industry chain, including content production, equipment manufacturing, network transmission coverage, and terminal presentation; and promote the application and popularization of related equipment. Encourage the acceleration of the popularization and intelligent iterative renewal of high-definition and ultra-high-definition televisions and set-top boxes.

13. Accelerate the upgrading of content production, broadcasting, transmission, and emission equipment. Accelerate the elimination of outdated equipment and facilities that have exceeded their service life, properly resolve risks to safe broadcasting, and improve the capacity to guarantee safe broadcasting. Encourage television stations, radio and television production, broadcasting, and transmission institutions, online audiovisual platforms, and others to accelerate the replacement and upgrading of production, broadcasting, transmission, and emission equipment and facilities and system upgrading and transformation, and enhance the supply of high-quality audiovisual content and transmission coverage capacity.

(8) Implement the action to protect famous historical and cultural cities and blocks.

14. Renew and upgrade protection management and monitoring equipment. Relying on famous historical and cultural cities, towns, and villages, blocks, and historical buildings, promote the renewal and transformation of public service and infrastructure equipment such as fire protection and display. Strengthen the application of energy-saving technologies, improve the configuration of ultra-low energy consumption equipment, and realize green operation and maintenance for the protection and utilization of historical buildings. Renew the layout and application of related sensing equipment such as video surveillance, unmanned aerial vehicles, and IoT perception, strengthen the application and promotion of new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, and improve the level of smart management and operation and maintenance. Promote the renewal and improvement of non-destructive testing equipment such as ultrasonic detectors, stress wave detectors, and infrared thermal imagers, and improve the safety monitoring and management level of historical buildings.

III. Safeguard Measures

(1) Leverage the synergy of funds. Localities should coordinate funds from multiple channels and provide active support. Culture and tourism enterprises and public institutions are encouraged to use their own funds to actively carry out equipment renewal and improve service quality. Eligible key projects will be included in the scope of funding support such as ultra-long-term special government bonds. Policy-based and commercial financial institutions are guided to strengthen support for equipment renewal in the culture and tourism sectors.

(2) Strengthen standard guidance. Focusing on key areas such as culture and tourism, film and television, and exhibitions and displays, and in light of industry realities, formulate and revise a batch of relevant national standards and industry standards, align them well with standards on energy conservation and carbon reduction, environmental protection, safety, and recycling, and, through a scientifically improved standards system, guide relevant enterprises and public institutions to implement equipment renewal in accordance with advanced standards. Do a good job in the recycling and utilization of waste equipment to avoid waste.

(3) Strengthen factor guarantees. Strengthen guarantees for factor resources such as land and energy use, talent teams, and technical support for relevant projects. For projects that do not add new land and mainly involve equipment renewal, appropriately simplify preliminary approval procedures and optimize approval processes.

(4) Improve the implementation mechanism. Relevant departments in various localities should strengthen organization and coordination, do a good job in policy interpretation, establish a key project database, and jointly promote the implementation of equipment renewal tasks in the culture and tourism sectors in their regions in a detailed and thorough manner.