Ji Bingxuan Attending and Addressing the Ceremony, Xie Weijiang and Wu Jing Delivering Speeches

The 2026 Culture and Technology Industry Development Forum opened in Changsha on the morning of November 9. Ji Bingxuan, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, attended and addressed the opening ceremony. Xie Weijiang, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and acting governor of the People's Government of Hunan Province, and Wu Jing, member of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology and president of Science and Technology Daily, delivered speeches.

Also present were provincial leaders Liu Hongbing, Wu Guiying, and Liu Yang; Huang Wei and Mao Junfa, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and, Zhang Wenjun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The opening ceremony.

Vice Chairperson Ji noted that every major technological breakthrough brings tremendous changes to cultural production, presentation, and dissemination. Seizing the historic opportunity of a new round of technological revolution, accelerating the integration of culture and technology, and vigorously developing the cultural and technological industries have become a key and urgent strategic task. Looking to the future, we must thoroughly implement President Xi Jinping's important instructions on the cultural and technological integration, to promote the steady and long-term development of the cultural and technological industries. Efforts should be made to:

- Uphold integrity and forge the soul, firmly grasp the correct value orientation, deeply explore the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, promote the main theme, and spread positive energy;

- Concentrate efforts on tackling key challenges, accelerate the integration of culture and technology, and persist in empowering the development of the cultural industry with technology;

- Be bold in innovation, promote the formation of a sound industrial development pattern, adhere to a model where the government provides guidance, enterprises serve as the main body, and research institutes collaborate, and advance deep interaction among industry, academia, and research; and,

- Optimize the environment, build a team of creative talent, and accumulate strength for the long-term development of the integration of culture and technology.

Acting Governor Xie welcomed the guests to Hunan on behalf of the provincial Party committee and the provincial government. He said that in recent years, Hunan has kept President Xi Jinping's earnest instructions in mind and has vigorously advanced the "exploration of effective mechanisms for integrating culture and technology" as a flagship project of the "Three Hubs" Strategy. The province has formed a complete industrial chain model of "quality content + independent standards + domestically produced equipment." We will take the hosting of this forum in Hunan as an opportunity to thoroughly implement the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important instructions on Hunan's work, accelerating the implementation of the "AI + culture" campaign. We will further build a solid digital foundation, expand application scenarios, deepen institutional innovation, and actively explore a path of in-depth integration and development of culture and technology with Hunan characteristics. The acting governor expressed his hope that everyone will further promote and invest in Hunan and jointly answer the question of the times on integration of culture and technology.

Wu Jing remarked that in recent years, the Ministry of Science and Technology has thoroughly implemented President Xi Jinping's important instructions on promoting the integration of culture and technology, comprehensively enhancing the innovation capacity of culture and technology. The in-depth integration of culture and technology has become an important engine for advancing the innovative development of the cultural industry. Science and Technology Daily will actively carry forward President Xi Jinping's important instructions, uphold integrity and innovation, take the initiative, and gather wisdom and strength from all parties, jointly writing a great chapter on the high-quality development of the cultural and technological industries.

The forum was co-organized by Science and Technology Daily, the Publicity Department of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, and the Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province. With the main line of empowering culture through technology and driving development through industry, it focused on the track of deep integration of culture and technology, highlighted industrial implementation, technical innovation, business form cultivation, and ecosystem construction, and comprehensively empowered the development of new quality productive forces in the cultural sector. In addition to the opening ceremony and the main seminar, there are also three main activities during the forum, including the opening ceremony of the Malanshan Audio-Visual Equipment Exhibition under the theme "Ultimate Audio-Visual Experience Gathering at Malanshan," the 2026 Annual Meeting of the International Union for Science and Technology Communication & Forum on Charting the Path for Global Outreach of Integrated Culture-Tech Industries, and the Culture & Technology Investment, Financing and Application Scenario Matchmaking Conference. It will also launch three supporting activities: A Brief History of Time - 2026 Science Popularization Night and the National Excellent Science Popularization Micro-Video Works Exhibition, the 2026 E-sports Industry Summit, and an "Entering Malanshan" Inspection Tour.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang 

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn