China Tourism News: Could you talk about the significance of the meeting? What directions has the General Secretary's important instruction pointed out for tourism development?

President Yao Jun: The significance of the National Tourism Development Conference lies in its reflection of the high importance attached to the tourism industry by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. For the first time, the comprehensive roles of the tourism industry in socio-economic development, cultural heritage, better lives, cultural exchange, and international exchanges have received recognition and attention at the highest strategic level of the state. This has greatly boosted and encouraged the confidence in industry development, which is of great historical significance for the tourism industry.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech profoundly illustrates that the tourism industry is not only an economic and people's livelihood industry, but also a national undertaking! The goal of a strong tourism country has outlined a grand blueprint for the development of the tourism industry, injected strong vitality and impetus into the tourism industry, and pointed out the direction for tourism professionals.

China Tourism News: The happy economy created by theme parks has attracted numerous tourists. Next, how will the association play a greater role in enabling the tourism industry to better serve a better life and further promote the development of the tourism industry?

President Yao Jun: Theme parks, tourism resorts, and other projects, as development-oriented tourism and leisure products with the most intensive industrial capital, the most concentrated creative and innovative elements, the most cutting-edge technological applications, and the most active market consumption, play an important role in promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism, cultivating and developing new productive forces in the industry, expanding domestic demand, promoting consumption, and meeting the needs of the people for a better life.

As an industry organization that connects theme parks, tourism resorts, cultural tourism equipment manufacturing, and other tourism and leisure industry chain enterprises, the China Tourism Association will thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and a series of important expositions on tourism development, deeply understand the guiding ideology, basic concepts, and work priorities that must be adhered to in promoting high-quality development of the tourism industry, adhere to innovation while upholding the right principles, improve quality and increase efficiency, promote integrated development, coordinate the relationship between government and market, supply and demand, protection and development, domestic and international, and development and security, build a good bridge between government and enterprises, guide member enterprises to increase the supply of high-quality tourism products and services, enhance the collaborative innovation of tourism and leisure with sports, science and technology, education, and rural revitalization, take meeting the people's needs for a better life as the fundamental starting point, and continuously improve the quality of tourism services and tourist consumption experience; at the same time, the association will continue to deepen international exchanges in the industry through international exhibitions and forums, promote cultural exchange and international trade cooperation, lead member enterprises to actively participate in the reform and construction of the global tourism governance system, and contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the development of the global tourism industry. Contribute to the construction of a modern tourism system and accelerate the construction of a strong tourism country.