The Spring Festival is approaching, Comrade Fang Shizhong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, made a special trip to visit Cao Peng, Zhou Yusheng, Cai Zhenghe and other retired veteran comrades and artists in the cultural and tourism system.
At the homes of old artists and comrades such as Cao Peng, Zhou Yusheng, and Cai Zhenghe, Fang Shizhong cordially asked them about their living conditions and physical conditions, carefully told them to take care of their health, and introduced to the old artists and old comrades the relevant situation of solidly promoting the high-quality development of the deep integration of culture and tourism in 2023, effectively empowering the city's economic growth and people's better life, focusing on exchanging thoughts and ideas for 2024, and taking the initiative to solicit the opinions and suggestions of old artists and comrades.
During the conversation, Fang Shizhong said that it is the hard work and selfless dedication of generations of veteran artists and comrades that have created a good situation for the prosperity and development of Shanghai's cultural and tourism industry, accumulated valuable experience for us, and laid a solid foundation. The party group of the bureau attaches great importance to the work of retired cadres, and deliberately adjusts the housing at the end of 2023, planning to provide it to the old comrades as a place for learning activities after the aging transformation, and strive to create a more colorful spiritual and cultural life paradise for the old comrades.
In 2024, Shanghai's cultural and tourism work will also usher in new historical opportunities and major challenges. We must take the initiative to learn from the old artists and old comrades for their loyalty to the cause and their enthusiasm for their work, especially the fighting spirit and fine style of hard work, entrepreneurship and the pursuit of excellence, and take the initiative to benchmark the higher requirements of the Municipal Party Committee and the people's higher expectations for a better life. Highlight Shanghai's red culture, deepen the exploration of Shanghai's civilization, and vigorously inherit and carry forward the city's cultural context; With more practical and innovative measures, we will focus on urban aesthetic education, focus on inbound tourism, aggregate international festivals and exhibitions, and empower urban consumption with excellent cultural tourism; With a broader global vision, we will strengthen international benchmarking, focus on key industries, make every effort to build a Shanghai cultural brand with world influence, accelerate the improvement of Shanghai's urban cultural soft power, create a Shanghai sample of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, help build a first-class cultural and ideological best practice place, and strive to create a new situation in the construction of a socialist international cultural metropolis and a world-famous tourist city.
The old artists and comrades expressed their gratitude to the party group of the bureau for their care and condolences, and felt very excited and gratified by the achievements of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the thinking and planning of the current and future work, and expressed that they would continue to support the work of the bureau's leadership team and make suggestions and contributions to the high-quality development of the city's cultural tourism industry.
Fang Shizhong asked the bureau of veteran cadres to thoroughly implement the spirit of the first and municipal party committee's series of important instructions on the work of veteran cadres, do a good job in the work of veteran cadres with heart and affection, and widely condense the wisdom and strength of old artists and old comrades.
Other members of the bureau's party group also led a team to visit some retired artists and comrades in the system a few days ago.
Editor: Liu Yi.