CCTV News (News Network): On March 11, the third "Minister Channel" of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was opened, and relevant officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the General Administration of Sports answered reporters' questions.
Kei Guan Zhiou, Minister of Natural Resources, introduced that in the past year, the "Three Norths" project has been completed, and the three landmark battles have made substantial progress. The Korqin Desert in the east is recreating the magnificent landscape of the past grasslands. The Kubuqi Desert in the central region has built a 400-kilometer desert photovoltaic, and the Taklamakan Desert in the west is equipped with a 3,046-kilometer green "scarf" and fully locked the edges and tied together, laying a solid foundation for the next comprehensive and systematic governance.
Sun Yeli, Minister of Culture and Tourism, said that last year's cultural and tourism industry continued its hot development momentum, with large-scale cultural and related industrial enterprises achieving operating income of 14 trillion yuan; the scale of domestic tourism reached 5.6 billion, an increase of nearly 15% year-on-year; the expenditure on domestic tourism reached 5.700 billion yuan, an increase of more than 17% year-on-year. In the next step, we will strengthen planning guidance and promote the integration of culture and tourism into the overall planning of economic and social development around how to cultivate the cultural and tourism industries into the pillar industries.
How to accelerate the construction of a sports power? Gao Zhidan, director of the General Administration of Sports of China, said that he is actively studying and formulating an indicator system for building a strong sports country and deepening sports reform, and strives to create a new pattern of building a strong sports country with "a national chess game".
In addition, the three ministers also answered reporters' questions on arable land protection, cultural and tourism consumption upgrading, ice and snow sports.
