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Senior official visits cultural workers

Xinhua, January 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

Senior Chinese leader Liu Yunshan has paid visits to prominent cultural workers ahead of China's Lunar New Year and extended festival greetings to them.

On behalf of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping and the CPC Central Committee, Liu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, on Monday and Tuesday visited historian Dai Yi, journalist Luo Kaifu, film artist Yu Lan and oil painter Zhan Jianjun.

During his visits, Liu called on cultural workers to consolidate confidence in their cultural ideals and values.

Cultural workers should promote traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture by enhancing creativity and producing quality works, said Liu.

Liu Qibao, head of the publicity department of the CPC Central Committee, also attended the activity.

The Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, falls on Jan. 28 this year. Endit