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China has banned local governments from using public funds to hire entertainment stars to appear at their events.
Nine departments under the State Council this month issued a document which bans local governments from paying entertainment "bigshots" to attend festival evening parties or other galas paid for by public funds.
As the Spring Festival, or China's lunar New Year, is approaching, nine governmental departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, issued the document, which also banned governments from holding commercial art performances.
Government staff were also banned from extorting free tickets for commercial art performances from organizers and from using public funds to buy tickets for art events for their own use.
In addition, according to the document, China will allow overseas capital to "appropriately" flow into China to set up art performance agent organizations and building venues for art performances through joint ventures. The document also allows overseas capital to invest in domestic art performances projects.
Social funds are also urged to invest in setting up art performance groups, opening art performance agent organizations, building venues and holding commercial art performances.
Social funds are allowed to take part in the reinstitution of state-owned art performance groups and venues through investment, buying shares, controlling shares and merging.
Also, art groups will be encouraged to provide cheap tickets for performances under a new efficiency assessment system. |
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