一:the meaning of the shared project

The Chinese nation has a splendid, extensive and profound culture, and has made great contributions to human civilization. As mankind enters the new century, how to always stick to the direction of the advanced Chinese culture and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is a very serious and important historical issue facing us."The Outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" clearly includes the prosperity and development of socialist cultural undertakings and the continuous improvement of the cultural quality of the whole nation into the construction objectives of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan", which is an important content of socialist modernization.

In view of the current our country the actual situation of cultural undertakings and the development of science and technology level, integration including libraries, museums, art galleries, art troupes, research institutes and other existing cultural information and resources, the overall advantages of the Internet information resources in Chinese culture, for the smooth realization of the tenth five-year plan to determine culture construction goal is very important.To this end, the National Cultural Information Resources Sharing Project (hereinafter referred to as the "Sharing Project") is to be implemented nationwide.

"Sharing Project" will make full use of modern high-tech means, the essence of various types of cultural information resources accumulated by the Chinese nation for thousands of years and the modern social and cultural information resources close to the public life will be digitized, processed and integrated;China will establish a Chinese cultural information center and network center on the Internet, and realize the co-construction and sharing of excellent cultural information nationwide through a network transmission system of cultural information resources covering all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, most prefectures (cities), counties (cities) and part of townships and subdistricts (communities).

The construction of the sharing project is of great historical significance:

1．"Sharing Project" is a new cultural construction project implementing the important thought of "Three Represents" of General Secretary Jiang Zemin

The implementation of the "sharing project" is actually the construction of the information base of Chinese culture on the Internet, which will quickly reverse the lack of online Chinese information and form an overall advantage.This will not only carry forward the extensive and profound fine Chinese culture, but also greatly promote its development and innovation.The "sharing project" will make extensive use of high-tech achievements such as computers, networks, communications and multimedia, and use these advanced technologies to spread advanced culture.Therefore, the implementation of "sharing project" is a cultural innovation project that combines the new practice and the requirements of The Times and according to the needs of people's spiritual and cultural life.It is a grand project to promote advanced culture and draw hundreds of millions of people under the great banner of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.It is the practice of advanced productive forces, represents the forward direction of advanced culture, and is the concrete measure for the cultural front to carry out the important thought of "Three Represents" in General Jiang Shu.

2．"Sharing Project" is a powerful measure to resist the cultural penetration of western developed countries and occupy the cultural position at the grass-roots level

In today's world, western developed countries have launched cultural infiltration to developing countries by virtue of their advantages on the Internet.The implementation of the "Shared Project" will fully display the development and innovation of Chinese culture in the new century on the Internet, so as to resist the cultural infiltration of Western countries.Since the reform and opening up, the living standard of the people has been continuously improved, and the cultural needs of the people are growing day by day. However, due to historical, regional, economic and other reasons, the cultural life of the grass-roots people in some areas, especially in poor areas, is very poor.The implementation of "sharing project", will be taking the popular forms of excellent cultural works via the Internet is convenient quickly transferred to the people around, fill the blank of the basic cultural needs, and to the advanced culture occupy the basic ideology and culture, changing what is backward and resisting decadent culture, rich and active grass-roots cultural life.

3．"Shared project" is the urgent need of "ruling the country by virtue"

At present, the development of China's socialist market economy has entered a new historical period, and it is urgent to enhance the penetration, radiation and appeal of advanced culture.The implementation of the "Sharing Project" will spread the essence of Chinese culture extensively through the Internet, so as to "arm people with scientific theories, guide people with correct public opinion, mold people with noble spirit and inspire people with excellent works".Educate the broad masses with advanced culture and raise their ideological and moral qualities as well as their scientific and cultural qualities.

4．The implementation of "sharing project" is the inherent requirement of scientific and technological innovation

The vigorous development of high and new technology, extensive and profound impact on human mode of production, life style and way of thinking.The current international competition, in the final analysis, is about overall national strength and, crucially, about science and technology. The same is true in cultural development.The application of the Internet has significantly increased the range and speed of information dissemination.Countries all over the world are scrambling to use modern information technology to strengthen the means of external communication and strive to occupy an advantageous position in the pattern of world public opinion in the 21st century.The implementation of "sharing project" is to adapt to this development trend, adopt modern high technology, promote the upgrading of communication means in cultural construction, so as to promote the faster development of cultural undertakings, and gradually form a new knowledge economy growth point based on the online service of cultural information.

5．The implementation of "Shared Project" will change the current situation of China's cultural construction

At present, China's cultural construction is faced with many difficulties and problems.According to statistics, by the end of 2000, there were still 57 counties without cultural centers, 144 counties without libraries, and more than 5,000 townships without cultural centers.There are also a considerable number of libraries, cultural centers, stations without buildings or primitive facilities, especially in the western region.

By 2000, there were 2,675 public libraries in China, with an average of 0.3 books per person.188.54 million visitors, accounting for 15 percent of China's total population;There are 756 county-level libraries that do not have any book fees for the whole year, accounting for 28.3 percent of the total number of public libraries in China.In 2000, 64,000 performances were held, attracting 37.38 million audiences. Those who went directly to theaters accounted for only 3 percent of the country's population.There are 1,384 museums in China, of which 17,752 were displayed and exhibited in 2000, with a total of 85.4 million visitors, accounting for only 6 percent of the country's population. These difficulties and problems have seriously hindered the dissemination of cultural information."Sharing project" will be through the adoption of modern communication technology and network technology, elimination of different areas in the cultural information resources inequity, enables cultural information economy, quickly sent to the country, to make policies regions can also enjoy the excellent culture of the masses, to realize the co-construction and sharing of cultural information and resources in the national scope.To a certain extent, the current situation of China's cultural construction will be changed to meet the cultural needs of the grass-roots people.

In addition, the cultural treasures collected by some important cultural institutions cannot be fully utilized due to the restriction of transmission conditions, and some are facing damage. The "Shared Project" will enable these endangered cultural and artistic treasures to be permanently preserved in digital form and widely disseminated.

二：The guiding ideology of the shared project

1、Fully understand the significance of implementing "sharing project", strengthen leadership and coordination

"Shared project" is a cultural project that uses modern information technology to digitize and integrate cultural information resources to maximize the public's enjoyment through the network.It has opened up a new cultural communication channel which is not restricted by region, time and space, which will play a significant role in rapidly reversing the situation of information shortage and economic and cultural backwardness in the vast central and western regions of our country, especially in the poor areas.The implementation of "sharing project" is a powerful measure to carry out the important thought of "Three Represents" of Comrade Jiang Zemin, and it will have a far-reaching and huge impact on inheriting and carrying forward the excellent Chinese culture and implementing the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and "governing the country by virtue".Cultural departments at all levels should attach great importance to the "sharing project" and actively organize and implement it.Financial departments at all levels should actively support and cooperate to jointly promote the smooth development of the project.In order to strengthen leadership and coordination, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance have jointly established a leading group for the national cultural information resource sharing project, and corresponding leading agencies should be set up at various localities.

2、Motivate the enthusiasm of all relevant parties, overall planning, unified standards, jointly build and share

The construction goal of the "sharing project" is to transfer cultural information resources to the grass-roots cultural outlets and the masses in urban and rural areas. It should adhere to the principle of public welfare and give full play to the enthusiasm of cultural and financial departments at all levels.The central government will focus on supporting the "sharing project" public projects and the construction of national centers, and the policy of favoring the western region will be reflected in local government subsidy funds.The construction of provincial sub-centers and grass-roots centers mainly depends on the support of local finance.

The implementation of the "sharing project" involves various cultural units at all levels and covers a wide area. The principles of unified planning, unified standards and resource sharing should be fully reflected.We should make use of the existing network and hardware and software environment, integrate the existing cultural and art resources to realize joint construction and sharing, and do not engage in repeated construction.All localities should take measures according to local conditions and give play to their respective advantages and characteristics under the premise of unified planning.

The "sharing project" adopts modern advanced technology with high technical content. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the project, the expert advisory committee of the national cultural information resources sharing project should be established to fully listen to the expert opinions and carry out scientific demonstration on the issues such as the formulation of planning, implementation scheme, technical standard and resource construction.In the process of construction, the units concerned should follow the unified technical standards and norms formulated by the national center, and do a good job in personnel training.

3、Actively create conditions to carry out pilot work as soon as possible

In order to actively and steadily implement the "Sharing Project", the principle of overall planning, step-by-step implementation and gradual promotion will be adopted.We hope that all localities will work hard to create conditions and take an active part in the pilot.Provincial sub-center pilot units are required to have certain conditions, that is: the network backbone communication capacity is not less than 100 megabytes;External network interface not less than 2 Mb;The total number of LAN workstations is not less than 60;A dedicated server with a hard disk capacity of not less than 500 gigabits;Equipped with full-time technical personnel and resource processing personnel;Equipment conditions can support the construction of more than 30 grass-roots centers.

All localities should carry out investigations and studies on the status of local cultural resources, computer network connections and cultural facilities as soon as possible, and on this basis, work out a pilot work plan for their respective localities, which shall be submitted to the National Leading Group of the Project for Sharing Cultural Information and Resources for approval before implementation.Districts wishing to participate in the first pilot should submit their proposals by the end of June 2002.Areas that do not have pilot conditions should also actively carry out research work to prepare for the implementation of the "sharing project" in the next step.

4、The implementation of "sharing project" should be closely combined with the strengthening of grass-roots cultural construction and the promotion of library development

The implementation of "sharing project" should rely on the existing cultural facilities network, with all levels of public libraries as the main implementation.Therefore, it is closely related to the construction of grass-roots cultural facilities network, library network and digital construction, and promotes each other.Local governments should incorporate the implementation of "sharing projects" into their overall plans for cultural undertakings, and give overall consideration to equipment, personnel, and funds to ensure such efforts.Public libraries at all levels should strengthen the construction of document information resources and the construction of automation and networking, and strengthen the training of professional and technical personnel, so as to lay a good foundation for the implementation of "sharing project".

"Sharing Project" is a new type of cultural construction project. In the process of implementation, communication and coordination should be strengthened, experience should be summarized, and continuous improvement and innovation should be made.