Five-Year Development Plan of the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall, Fuzhou City (2016–2020)

The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a fully government‑funded public institution under the Fuzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Press and Tourism. Completed and opened to the public in October 1995, the hall features a Jiangnan‑style garden and is situated on Quejia Mountain in the southern suburbs of Fuzhou. In 2013, the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government designated the renovation and upgrade project of the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall as a key initiative for the city’s central urban area; the new building was finished in September 2016. Covering a total site area of over 100 mu, with a floor space of 6,133 square meters, the complex includes more than 20 notable attractions, such as Yuming Hall, Qingyuan Tower, the Stele Corridor, the Cultural Promenade, the Ancient Opera Stage, the Folklore Street, Sansheng Bridge, and the Peony Pavilion. Among these, the Yuming Hall exhibition space spans over 2,000 square meters. The landscaped grounds within the memorial hall extend across 50,000 square meters.

In recent years, with strong support from the municipal government and the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism, the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City has seen its staff unite in striving for progress and pursue innovative development, achieving notable results in providing free public access to its facilities. To further advance the comprehensive innovation and prosperity of cultural and museum undertakings, strengthen the museum’s sense of mission, responsibility, and vigilance, and in line with the central government’s call for robust cultural flourishing and a new upsurge in social cultural development, the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall will, while consolidating its institutional foundations, seize opportunities, focus all efforts on enhancing substantive quality, markedly improve its operational standards, foster innovation, unlock potential, and continuously break new ground in the reform and development of the museum. In doing so, it will contribute meaningfully to the promotion of China’s fine traditional culture, the advancement of economic development, the enhancement of people’s quality of life, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the progress of human civilization.

I. Guiding Principles

Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the “Three Represents,” we will thoroughly implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, earnestly study the spirit of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and, based on the fundamental national conditions of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and forging a strong socialist culture, grasp the stage‑specific characteristics of museum development. Upholding the people‑centered principle, we will remain closely aligned with reality, everyday life, and the public, taking the organization of high‑quality exhibitions as our central task, improving museum quality management as our core focus, and strengthening the cadre team as our key leverage. In this way, we will comprehensively elevate the level of professionalism, modernization, and social service provided by museums, reinforce their roles in cultural heritage preservation, cultural exchange, knowledge dissemination, and public education, and continuously open up new prospects for the development of the museum sector.

II. Development Goals

Strengthen training for the museum’s professional team, recruit specialized museum personnel, and intensify efforts to acquire new collections, thereby enriching the museum’s holdings. Organize or host a series of high‑quality, widely acclaimed exhibitions that resonate with the public, while innovating institutional mechanisms to enhance academic research capabilities and community outreach. Establish a comprehensive museum education and service system, and strive to ensure that by 2020 both the museum’s physical infrastructure and operational standards meet the national criteria for Level‑III museums, enabling it to qualify as a national Level‑III museum.

III. Implementation of Objectives

Taking the establishment of a national third‑level museum as an opportunity, and in accordance with the standards for building a first‑class provincial museum, we will ensure the museum’s free public access and smooth operation by establishing and refining a long‑term development mechanism; strengthen collection management to enrich our holdings; plan and introduce high‑quality exhibitions; expand our social education functions; and elevate the level of public cultural services. In this way, we will integrate the principles of substantive development and quality enhancement into the museum’s strategic objectives and all core activities, fostering innovative growth, invigorating institutional vitality, and achieving leap‑frog progress in the museum sector.

(1) Comprehensive Management

1. Establish and improve a long-term development mechanism for the museum, strengthen internal management, and refine and implement comprehensive administrative regulations covering personnel management and attendance, exhibition administration, security patrols, and emergency response plans. In conjunction with relevant industry laws and policies, explore the establishment of a scientific, standardized, healthy, and orderly institutional operating and staff management model that aligns with the professional requirements of museology and the museum’s strategic direction, thereby ensuring the routine, standardized, and institutionalized execution of all tasks and safeguarding the safe operation of the museum’s cultural relics, buildings, personnel, and information systems.

2. Strengthen the development of the cadre workforce and broaden channels for talent recruitment and training. Through open recruitment, independent hiring (outside the established staffing quota), and other mechanisms, attract highly qualified, capable professionals and managerial personnel, and cultivate a team of appropriately sized, well‑structured, and highly competent staff that meets the needs of the museum’s ongoing development. Enhance continuing education for professional and technical personnel, encouraging and supporting participation in various forms of academic degree programs and professional qualification training to enrich their expertise and skills. Foster a sense of mission and service—“serving the present while preserving for future generations”—and elevate the level of public cultural services.

3. Strengthen information technology infrastructure by establishing a comprehensive administrative office database and a robust, reliably operating local area network; further enhance the museum’s website; and formulate and implement management systems for cybersecurity, crisis public relations, and other areas to ensure the security of both network and information systems.

(II) Collection Management

1. Conduct a comprehensive inventory of all holdings, refine the archival records for each category of collection, establish separate archives and storage systems based on material and type, implement a collection management system, and complete the nationwide first survey of movable cultural relics.

2. Strengthen the day-to-day management of the collection. Conduct appraisal, documentation, and pre‑storage disinfection and sterilization for newly acquired cultural relics; implement routine scientific conservation and maintenance for items already in the collection; strictly standardize and enforce operating procedures for the removal, display, and exhibition of collection items; and rigorously adhere to approval and registration protocols for the provision and deaccessioning of collection items, ensuring timely tracking of their disposition.

3. Strengthen efforts to acquire cultural relics and conduct classification of the museum’s collection, thereby expanding its holdings. Each year, systematically acquire a specified number of items, including contemporary artworks, with the goal of increasing the number of precious museum pieces to between 300 and 500.

4. Strengthen technical conservation of cultural relics, conducting routine inspections of their preservation conditions in the museum’s exhibition halls and storage facilities. Enhance the research, development, and application of preventive conservation technologies and equipment, and establish a management system for monitoring environmental quality and assessing risks in museum settings, thereby enabling continuous surveillance of exhibition spaces, key display cases, and relic storage areas and ensuring the long-term protection of valuable cultural heritage.

5. Expand the library’s collections and related research to strengthen its academic and scientific capabilities.

(3) Exhibitions and Displays

1. Plan and bring in high-quality, world-class cultural relic exhibitions, hosting at least two temporary exhibitions each year to actively enrich the public’s spiritual and cultural life.

2. Leveraging local outstanding traditional cultural resources, the museum’s distinctive collections and cutting-edge research findings—such as Linchuan culture, Tang Xianzu culture, and Fuzhou intangible cultural heritage—we will curate original exhibitions that highlight the museum’s unique holdings, with the aim of presenting one to two traveling exhibitions at sister museums across the province.

3. Leveraging the cultural characteristics of Linchuan and the cultural resources associated with Tang Xianzu, strengthen collaboration with local cultural‑creative enterprises and cultural heritage practitioners to develop a series of high‑quality cultural‑creative products.

(4) Social Education

1. Strengthen the development of the interpretation team. Establish a high-caliber workforce of education professionals and intensify training for professional interpreters and volunteer docents; enhance educators’ theoretical knowledge and their overall information literacy.

2. Leveraging museum exhibitions and traditional festivals, as well as International Museum Day, we innovate educational outreach approaches, develop a series of educational programs, and organize a diverse array of engaging activities to enhance public awareness of and interaction with museums.

3. Actively expand the museum’s outreach and educational channels, strengthen “museum–school” and “museum–community” initiatives, enhance mobile exhibitions in local communities, improve the quality of guided tours, and broaden the museum’s social impact.

4. Establish and improve the museum’s network infrastructure, advance digital museum initiatives, and strengthen the application of information technologies such as big data and mobile internet in areas including exhibitions, cultural relic displays, educational outreach, and visitor services, thereby enhancing the museum’s capacity to deliver comprehensive public cultural education services.

IV. Safeguard Measures

(1) Strengthen integrity-building efforts and foster a conducive environment for development.

Thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the successive plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and the series of important speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Uphold the principle that the Party must govern itself and exercise strict self-discipline, adhere to pragmatism and innovation, and earnestly strengthen ideological, organizational, conduct‑related, and institutional development among the Party members and cadres of our institution. Strictly enforce the Party’s principal responsibility, reinforce the building of Party branches, genuinely transform work styles, enhance governance capacity, and foster a clean and upright environment conducive to dedication and entrepreneurship. Fully leverage the exemplary role of Party members, staying true to our original aspirations and safeguarding the implementation of the Plan.

(II) Attach great importance to this issue and strengthen organizational leadership.
   
It is essential to fully recognize the importance of developing the museum sector, strengthen organizational leadership over the implementation of the Plan, and place the key tasks outlined in the Plan on the agenda of major deliberations. For significant projects that impact the construction and development of museums, early discussion, prompt decision-making, and timely implementation are imperative.

(3) Establish systems and mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the plan.

Further refine the library’s internal rules and regulations, elevate management and operational standards, strengthen oversight and enforcement, establish and improve a comprehensive system of institutional frameworks, achieve institutionalized management, enhance administrative effectiveness, and ensure the effective implementation of the Plan.