National Leisure Outline Will Be Included In The 12Th Five Year Plan

Last year, for the purpose of "eight guarantees", the ten major industrial revitalization plans were successively launched. This year, under the background of low carbon and emission reduction, the tourism service industry, as the "leader" of green industry, has been upgraded to the national strategic pillar industry. On June 2, Zhu Shanzhong, Deputy Director of the National Tourism Administration, disclosed in Beijing that the National Tourism Administration is currently accelerating the development of the National Tourism and Leisure Program, "which will enter the 12th Five Year Plan period and be submitted to the State Council for approval of the special plan."

It is understood that in order to implement the Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of Tourism, the National Tourism Administration has been brewing a number of favorable policies, the most important of which is the "business license" for outbound travel of foreign-funded travel agencies that the industry has been looking forward to for years, which is expected to be officially announced and implemented before the end of this year.

At present, tourism has become the largest pillar industry in many countries in the world. China's leisure industry is in its infancy, but its scale has reached more than 5% of GDP. According to the estimation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the core consumption of China's leisure industry reached about 1.7 trillion yuan last year. "There is no doubt about the good prospects of the tourism industry," said Chen Zhichao, the deputy general manager of Nanhu International Travel Service · West Festival, "but the National Leisure Outline needs to see the specific implementation rules to know which sectors in the tourism industry are good."