Zhou Maosong, director of the Zibo municipal bureau of culture, radio, television and publication

The Zibo cultural department will carry out the strategy of rural cultural revitalization and improve the efficiency of public cultural service.

We will push forward the cultural construction of poverty removal and relocation in the Yellow River beach area and continue to support construction of cultural institutes and facilities at the community level.

We will explore the characteristics of rural culture, pushing ahead with demonstration areas for cultural inheritance and innovation.

We will strengthen the protection of traditional villages, carry out a citywide industrial heritage survey and promote the construction of a leisure town, a Cuju (ancient Chinese football) town and pottery making town.

Local residents learn calligraphy at a cultural institute in Zibo, Shandong province. [Photo/Cultural Shandong]