From the very beginning of 2024, the District Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Television, Tourism, and Sports adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, comprehensively carried out the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the 3rd Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches, instructions, and comments given to the work of tourism, and to Guangdong and Guangzhou, conscientiously implement the Provincial Party Committee's “1310" specific deployment, the Municipal Party Committee's "1312" measures, and the 12 key tasks of the District Committee, firmly grasped the primary task of high-quality development, thoroughly implemented the "High-quality Development Project of 100 Counties, 1000 Towns and 10000 Villages", focused on the new platform for international opening up, the construction of a growth pole in the north of Guangzhou, and other major strategies, planned the building of a cluster of convention, business, culture, tourism, sports and exhibition in the northern part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promoted the deep integration of the cultural and tourism industry, as a result, the cultural and tourism brands became more prominent, the public fitness campaign took on a more energetic look, the service efficiency was continuously improved, and the cultural, tourism and sports industry move on a trajectory of high-quality development.

(1). Adhered to “cultivating the soul through learning”, provided better and more efficient public cultural services, and raised the comprehensive cultural strength to a new level.

The foundation of public cultural services was further strengthened. Approval was given to Guangzhou Folk Museum and Huadu Grand Theater to issue special local government bonds; Guangzhou Folk Museum opened to the public in the year, and Yunling Digital Park passed the acceptance inspection upon completion. Huadu District passed the innovation and development re-assessment of provincial public cultural service system demonstration zone; 10 town and street cultural stations in the District were once again awarded the title of provincial special-class station, more than 75% of the 259 grass-roots comprehensive cultural service centers in the District met their quality and efficiency improvement targets; Huadu Library increased its service points (of headquarter and branches) to 104, and its “one library, two doors” service mode, which is innovative in the city, was reported and promoted by state media. The number of new type public cultural spaces increased to 85; the Chunyangtai Arts and Culture Center was name as the most beautiful new type public cultural space of Guangdong Province in 2024, and has been included in the first batch of units for public cultural service community construction pilot program of Guangdong Province. Master Hall Practice and Innovation Base for Culture, Sports and Tourism Integration and Nanyang Branch of Huadu District Library were included in the “Guangzhou Citizen Cultural Space” list in 2024.

Quality of public cultural services was effectively improved. Rich cultural activities were offered for the benefit of the people. Continuous efforts were made to build such brands as “Culture Huadu - Art Weekend” and “Huadu of Book”; and we held, to high standards, more than 1,000 cultural activities for the benefit of the public, such as the Taste of the New Year Spring Festival series activities, Pangu King Folk Culture Activity, “The Voice of Langtou” Country Singers Competition, “Giacometti in Langtou “sculpture exhibition, modern sculpture exhibition; and more than one million people enjoyed such activities. Quality cultural products emerged in great number, winning 21 awards at the provincial and municipal levels. The cultural service team has been growing gradually. Huadu District Public Art Promotion Union was established; 4 art workers were selected for Guangzhou 2024 “Stars Action”, and 8 projects were selected for Guangzhou 2024 “Star Group Project”.

Inheritance and protection of cultural heritage was carried out in an orderly manner. All-out efforts were given to the fourth national cultural relics census; a leading team was formed, and plans were made for the purpose. Investigation and data collection and entry were completed for a cumulative total of 515 cultural relics of the Third Census, with the completion rate of the review task reaching 93.64%, and one new cultural relic has been announced. We solidly promoted heritage protection projects, carried out 95 actions of termite control, maintenance and repair, reinforcement, and restoration for immovable cultural relics, and completed the verification of aboveground cultural relics of over 290 plots of land that had been planned for construction use. We collected and integrate the historical and cultural resources of Langtou Village and completed the book compilation of “Meet Langtou”; and we started the data digging and book compilation of “Biographies of Famous Historical Figures of Huadu” and “Concise Historical and Cultural Reader of Huadu”. 5 District-level representative non-heritage items were newly added, including “Apotheosis of Imperial Censor He”; 9 units , including Tiemian Primary School were selected as intangible cultural heritage (ICH) bases of the Guangzhou; and Liu Tujin and Tan Qiurong were included in the first batch of municipal honorary inheritors of Guangzhou. Sanhua Primary School, Tiemian Primary School, and Experimental Middle School were selected as excellent cases of the second edition of Guangzhou“intangible cultural heritage on campus” project. Huadu’s first District ICH Exhibition Center (Langtou Station) was built. Nearly 520 ICH inheritance activities of various kinds were carried out throughout the year, with nearly 210,000 participants, which effectively advanced the promotion of ICH inheritance.

(2). Deepened the integrated development, simulated the energy of the cultural and tourism industry, raised the energy level of the District as a livable tourism destination in the northern part of the Great Bay Area

Plans were made to build a cluster of convention, business, culture, tourism, sports and exhibition in the northern part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. With the initial preparation of the "Action Plan for the Integrated Development of Culture, Business, Tourism and Sports in the Northern Part of the Greater Bay Area", and the formulation of the strategic development report of Huadu cultural tourism, our planned layout for the cultural, commercial, tourism, and sports exhibition industry would center on the two leading areas of Sunac and Jiulong Lake, the two major hub areas of the airport and the North Railway Station, and the connecting area around the Wangzi Mountain. We vigorously built the "Play in the Northern GBA" IP for traffic attraction. Making full use of the transit without visa policy, we launched 6 tourism routes, 4 creative tourism items, and more than 100 preferential measures for passengers transiting at Baiyun Airport. And we introduced a 100-kilometer northern GBA route for self-driving tour to promote the tourism connectivity, cultural connection, and product and service sharing in the Greater Bay Area. By integrate the "Play in the Northern GBA” applet, Baiyun Airport, large business districts, and other platform resources, an all-dimension publicity matrix was formed to continuously increase the recognition and influence of Huadu.

We promoted the upgrading and quality improvement of the cultural, tourism and sports industry， and made every effort to do a good job in the cultivation of cultural, tourism and sports enterprises that had the potential to be upgraded and included in government statistics; and 5 new enterprises were so included in 2024. The construction of key cultural and tourism projects were accelerated. Yunling Digital Park passed the acceptance inspection upon completion, and investment promotion for it has begun; and the Wangzi Mountain Forest Park Scenic Area held an opening ceremony on September 21. In August this year, our application for issuance of special local government bonds was approved, which helped solve the funding problems of such sub-projects as the Guangzhou Folk Museum project, the decoration project and facilities and equipment procurement and installation project of Huadu Grand Theater, and the renovation project of Hong Xiuquan's Former Residence.

Adopted differentiation approach to create high-quality cultural tourism products. Our efforts to integrate whole-region tourism, culture, sports, and other characteristic resources to enabled Huadu District to become the only region in Guangdong province to be awarded the "2024 National Sports Tourism Quality Destination". In polishing the cultural tourism IP of "Ice and Snow + Flower Town" in the south of China, we introduced snow concerts, markets, and spring flower-viewing and other new tourism attractions to continue the marketing of one-stop snow and flower-viewing tourism products. We vigorously cultivated rural tourism, quality homestays, and other new business formats. Langtou Village was selected as an example of the WTA Best Practices of Rural Revitalization Through Tourism 2024, and was named as a Guangdong Cultural and Tourism Characteristic Village; Chini Town was included in the list of Guangdong Cultural and Tourism Characteristic Towns; Zhudong Village was included in the first ten rural tourism destinations of the country; Dragon Lake Princess Hotel was selected as the 2024 Guangdong Provincial Staff Recuperation and Recuperation Base; Fragrance Realm - Habitat Creek was awarded the Guangdong Provincial Forest Health Care Base (Pilot); and the Guangzhou spring flower-viewing route, which connects excellent stops (Baosang Garden, Zhudong Village) of the excellent tourism route“Flowering Time”, was rated as a high-quality spring self-driving route of Guangdong. We successfully created 4 "Cantonese New Trend" popular attractions for Guangdong's new cultural tourism business format, and selected 20 new cultural, business, tourism and sports consumption scenarios of Huadu under 10 major themes. We printed and distributed the "Procedures for the Establishment of Homestay Businesses in Huadu District", and completed the registration of 6 new homestays. The District had 6 additional class-rated rural hotels and homestays of Guangdong province, and 3 new Kapok-star homestays of Guangzhou. He Chun Zhu and Aishu-Butterfly’s Forest was awarded the Black Truffle Award, which is authoritative in the homestay industry. And He Chun Zhu is the only homestay in the province that received the two-star recommendation.

(3). Focused on quality and efficiency improvement, vigorously carried out the public fitness program, and boosted the positive growing trend of the sports industry.

The building of sports characteristic brands began to bear fruits. We continued our efforts in building sports brands for jump rope, ice and snow, outdoor, martial arts, and so on; printed and distributed the "Five-Year Action Plan of Huadu District, Guangzhou for Building A Strong Jump Rope District (2024-2028)"; accelerated the preparation of the "Plan of Huadu District, Guangzhou for Building An Ice and Snow Sports Demonstration District" and the "Three-year Action Plan of Huadu District Building A Strong Sports District"; integrate the high-quality sports tourism resources of the whole District, and successfully applied for the 2024 China Excellent Sports Tourism Project", making Huadu District the only District in the province to be so awarded. Relying on the high-quality ecological resources in the northern part of the Greater Bay Area, we created the first "Crossing Guangzhou and Qingyuan - Green Flower-viewing Belt”, a 124 kilometer cycling route connecting Huadu and Qingyuan, and it has been successfully selected as a high-quality cycling route by the 2024 "China Cycling Map".

The supporting work of the 15th National Games was advanced in an orderly manner. The Huadu District Supporting Committee for the Guangzhou Division of the 15th National Games and the Paralympic Games was established. comprehensive coordination and support preparations Backbone teams with District leaders as the director was respectively established for Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Guangzhou North Railway Station, two important arrival and departure sites of the 15th National Games, to promote in an orderly manner the supporting work for the 15th National Games. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the 15th National Games, supporting team was formed respectively for Southern Airlines Pearl and Guangzhou HJ Grand Hotel, two athlete reception hotels, according to the requirements of "one team for one hotel", to ensure their supply of water and electricity, medical and health, food safety, fire safety and surrounding public security. We held exchange activities themed on "National Games in Huadu” to show to the Municipal Executive Committee of the 15th National Games the characteristic sports of Huadu District, like jump rope and Guangzhou Pak-Shing Choy-Lee-Fat martial arts, and highlights of industries from manufacturing, agriculture, culture, business, tourism and sports, striving to have more Huadu elements integrated into the 15th National Games.

The level of public fitness services was continuously improved. The District held a number of high-level sports events, including home games of Guangzhou Team in the 2024 China League (15 times), home games of Guangzhou Power in the 2024 Chinese Football Association Division Two League (3 times), the Provincial Basketball League, the Provincial Taekwondo League, the Provincial College Dance Sports Open, and the Provincial Gymnastics Open. We held the 24th China Middle School Table Tennis Championship (High School Group), the 2024 National Jump Rope League Finals and other "national level" events. And wel also did a good job in giving such mass sports events as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Ski Elite Challenge, the Huadu Guangzhou-Qingyuan Crossing Cycling Ride, the 2024 Guangdong "100 Counties, 1000 Towns and 10000 Villages" series, the 2024 "Mayor's Cup" series, the 30th anniversary of the unified nationwide issuance of the China Sports Lottery, and the "Flowery Huadu - Youth on the Rope" jump rope challenge. The cumulative participation in such activities throughout the year exceeded 200,000 person-times, speaking of a national sports boom. We actively made up for the shortcomings of national fitness facilities. We used community parks, green spaces and other places to create "embedded" sports spaces, and installed and repaired more than 240 pieces of fitness equipment for communities, villages, parks and other public places, effectively satisfying the needs of citizens for exercise.

Outstanding achievements was made in the cultivation of competitive sports talents. The District Amateur Sports School has been rated as a "National High-level Sports Reserve Talent Base" for four consecutive cycles. In 2024, Huadu athletes won 19 gold medals, 7 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals in national and international competitions. The District delivered 48 athletes to higher-level training units, and in the 2022-2023 training quality evaluation of Guangdong sports reserve talent training units, the District won a "excellent” grade and ranked "first” in the 94 county, district (town) level sports schools of Guangdong Province that participated the training performance evaluation. In the 2024 Guangzhou Youth Championships, the Huadu delegation won 81 gold medals, 100 silver medals, and 100 bronze medals. A combined effort with the District Bureau of Education was made to plan and turn 27 school into sports reserve talent training bases in accordance with the guideline of "integrating sports and education, and basing District teams on schools"; a sports reserve talent training system covering primary and middle schools was taking shape.

(4) Created an excellent business environment, practiced administrative law enforcement in a standardized and orderly manner, and the cultural and tourism market took on a new look.

Improved the efficiency of approval services. We advanced the adoption of new modes of examination and approval, such as online examination and approval, and the notification and commitment system, and fully implemented the "run only one errand for one thing" government service. A total of 247 applications for administrative licensing matters were accepted for processing, with 100% completion rate and 100% satisfaction rate.

Enhanced comprehensive market governance. Since the beginning of this year, the total use of law enforcement force reached 4,700 person-times, 1,571 onsite supervision and inspection visits were paid to cultural, tourism and sports enterprises, and a total of 217 complaints and reports have been handled, with a completion rate of 100%.

Strengthened industry safety management. We took the first place among the "Excellent Units" in the evaluation of the performance reports of Huadu government agencies on “law enforcer as public legal educator” in 2024. We strictly implemented the responsibility system for workplace safety, strengthened workplace safety inspections and standby during key protection periods such as the Spring Festival and the "National Two Sessions", and enhanced industry supervision.