Councils to help promote culture

China's State-owned cultural institutions will adopt a new management system to give them more flexibility and make them more responsive to the public.

The institutions, including libraries, museums and art galleries, will set up management councils composed of employees, experts and public representatives as their top decision-making bodies, the Ministry of Culture said on Wednesday.

"Representatives from outside these cultural institutions must make up a majority of the council members," said Chen Binbin, deputy director of the ministry's public culture department.