Recently, the First Council (Expanded) Meeting and the New Year's Festival of the Municipal Association for Promoting Tourism and Cultural Industries in 2019 was held. Zhong Benqiang, former Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress and President of the Municipal Association for Promoting Tourism and Cultural Industries, Gao Aiguo, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, and Dou Xiangyan, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress participated in the activities.

At the meeting, the deputy chairman, executive director and director of the Municipal Association for Promoting Tourism and Cultural Industries were selected, and the work report and financial work report were heard. The signing ceremony of Chenzhou Branch of Golden Key Institute established by the International Golden Key Institute in cooperation with Xiangnan University was held.

Since its formal establishment in May, 2018, the Municipal Association for Promoting Tourism and Cultural Industries has successfully organized the first series of activities on traditional culture theme, focusing on the overall situation of the city's tourism and cultural industry development, earnestly grasping the purpose and core of "advancing hand in hand and promoting mutual progress" and "serving". At the same time, the Association has closely followed the key points, hot spots and difficulties of the tourism and cultural industry development in the whole city, carried out in-depth investigation in the counties, cities and member units, and drafted the "Chenzhou Global Tourism Promotion Measures" commissioned by the municipal government, which has made a positive contribution to the promotion of the high-quality development of the tourism and cultural industry in the whole city, and achieved the good start of the work of the promotion association. This year, the Association will conscientiously perform its duties and responsibilities, give full play to the role of bridge and link, perform its service function well, strengthen its own construction, help to implement the Four-year Action Plan for the 100 Billion Industry of the cultural tourism and sports industry, and make new and greater contributions to speeding up the construction of the "Five Chenzhou", building Hunan's "new growth pole" and taking the lead in building a well-off society in an all-round way.