Xi: Ensure culture serves the people

Noting that the Chinese people always have a global vision, Xi said contemporary Chinese literature and art should embrace the world and humanity.

Cultural workers need to have firm confidence and ambitions to create fine works that help present Chinese values and philosophies to the rest of the world and reflect the common values of humanity, he added.

Xi urged artists and writers around the country to tell China's stories to the world in a proper manner, create more Chinese cultural images that can become popular in the world and strive to present the world with a multidimensional and panoramic view of China in order to write a new chapter for advancing the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

He also called for developing exchanges between Chinese and foreign writers and artists.

Xi underlined the importance of raising ethical standards among cultural workers, urging them to improve their conduct, value their social influence and seriously consider the impact of their work on society.

A writer or an artist engaging in bad conduct or misbehaving will not be accepted by the people, he said, calling for a sound and clean environment in the whole sector.

While stressing the importance of the Party's leadership in the flourishing and development of socialist literature and art, Xi urged the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Writers Association to leverage their organizational strength to innovate their work and guide writers and artists in creating literary and artistic works.