Ministry of Culture (China)
The Ministry of Culture was a constituent department of the State Council of China in charge of culture. Its responsibilities encompassed cultural policy and activities in the country, including managing national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts ; and managing the national archives and regional culture centers. Its headquarters were in Chaoyang District, Beijing. On 19 March 2018, it was merged with the China National Tourism Administration to establish the Ministry of Culture and Tourism,
History
The ministry was dissolved on 19 March 2018 and replaced by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the [People's Republic of China|Ministry of Culture and Tourism] as part of the deepening the reform of the Party and state institutions.Duties
In 1955, the Ministry of Culture sought to develop rural cultural networks to distribute media like other performances, lantern slides, books, cinema, radio, books, and to establish newspaper reading groups.On March 9, 1958, the Ministry of Culture held a meeting to introduce a Great Leap Forward in cinema. During the Great Leap Forward, the film industry rapidly expanded, with documentary films being the genre that experienced the greatest growth. The number of film-screening venues, including both urban cinemas and mobile projectionist units that traveled through rural China, also radically increased during this period.
During the Cultural Revolution, in 1970 the communist party deemed the cultural politics of the ministry so disruptive that it was dissolved and a Culture Group was established within the State Council of the [People's Republic of China|State Council].
In 1998, the Ministry of Culture revived the practice of mobile rural cinema as part of its 2131 Project which aimed to screen one movie month per village in rural China and upgrade analog equipment to digital projectors.The duty of the ministry was to digitize and preserve public domain works, and make them available and accessible to every citizen. China had millions of public domain works, including but not limited to books, pictures, music and films.