The government will continue to boost its cultural industries, with more favorable policies and regulations to be released in the near future, revealed Cai Wu, minister of culture, at the 7th International Forum on Cultural Industries at Peking University over the weekend.

Cai said that Chinese cultural industries have made great achievements and that in the next 10 years, more efforts will be done to further foster their growth and advancement.

The government will help build a number of large-scale companies in the fields of performing and entertainment, animation, online games and other cultural industries, Cai announced.

Efforts will be put into building animation-themed parks, gardens based on Chinese culture and developing a series of cultural festivals nationwide. The government will also take measures to enlarge cultural imports and exports and speed up the reform of investment and financing systems that support the culture industry.

Cai said that the government had attached great importance to developing cultural industries and released the Plan to Adjust and Reinvigorate the Culture Industry in July, symbolizing that cultural industries would be an emerging new strategic industry of China's economic development.

Organized by Peking University and its Institute for Cultural Industries, the forum attracted about 100 government officials and social scholars who discussed the challenges and opportunities facing Chinese cultural industries in today's context.

"The culture industry will play a very important role in Chinese society, both in terms of its contribution to economic growth and its function of enabling people to better understand the country," commented Ye Shuxian, professor from the Graduate School at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Ye said that in the past several years, China's cultural industry has made positive steps forward, with all aspects, such as the performing arts, fine art, animation and online gaming, receiving international attention.

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