The Annual Meeting of the Chinese Public Cultural Policy Research Experimental Base was Held in WHU

On March 22, sponsored by the Institute of National Culture Development of Wuhan University, the 2016 annual meeting of the Chinese Public Cultural Policy Research Experimental Base was held in Wuhan University, more than 100 delegates from 75 experimental bases of Hubei, Shandong, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places gathered in Wuhan University.

The meeting discussed how could the Public Cultural Policy Research Experimental Base further its role as a think tank. In the panel discussion, participants delivered speeches on the topics of “exchange experience of the industry or experimental bases” and "experimental base working mechanism and Blue Book compilation recommendations" etc.

Since 2011, the Institute of National Culture Development of Wuhan University have selected some representative public cultural institutions from all over the country as experimental bases for public cultural policy research, so as to conduct grassroots observation and cutting-edge research. After five years of efforts, it has expanded to 75 experimental bases, each base has one researcher and one observer, gradually it has initially established a national public cultural policy research network with Wuhan University as the academic research center and the experimental bases as the behavior research center. Experimental bases have now become tentacles reaching out to the grassroots and leading edge, thus providing first-hand material and data for public cultural policy.

The National Cultural and Fiscal Policy Research Base of Wuhan University provides on average more than 20 advisory reports to national ministries every year, and it has become one of the most important think tanks specializing in the field of culture in China. (Institute of National Culture Development)