Notice on Accelerating the Upgrading of Broadcasting and Television from Village to Household in 2018

2018 Notice on Accelerating the Upgrade of Radio and Television from Village to Household

The General Office of the State Council has recently issued the Notice on Accelerating the Upgrade of Radio and Television from Village to Household (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which makes a comprehensive deployment of accelerating the upgrade of radio and television to household on the basis of broadcasting and television village to village, making it clear that by 2020, a basic The digital radio and television household pass, the formation of urban and rural coverage, convenient and efficient, fully functional, service to the household of the new radio and television coverage service system.

"Notice" pointed out that since the implementation of the radio and television village through the project, effectively expanding the coverage of rural radio and television, to solve the majority of rural people listening to the radio is difficult to watch TV difficult problem. With the economic and social development and the improvement of science and technology, there is an urgent need to further enhance the level of radio and television on the basis of the village pass, quality and efficiency, to realize the upgrade from the rough coverage to the refinement of the service to the household, from the analog signal coverage to the digitization of the upgrade of clear reception, from the traditional audio-visual services to the multi-level multi-mode multi-industrial services upgrade, to meet the people's needs for radio and television broadcasting services for the basic public **** to provide adequate protection, to meet the personalized diversity of cultural and educational needs. To meet the people's basic public **** service needs to provide adequate protection, to meet the demand for personalized diversity of cultural services to create a good environment.

The Notice emphasizes the need to adhere to the people-centered work orientation, reform and innovation as the driving force, the main line of upgrading and development, focusing on the grassroots level, give full play to the central and local enthusiasm, give full play to the role of the government and the market, the people's governments at the provincial level to determine the coverage of the region's wireless, wired, satellite, three technical ways of coverage programs, to promote the local conditions, according to the household to promote the digital Radio and television coverage and household reception. In accordance with the national guiding standards for basic public **** cultural services (2015-2020), the number of basic public **** service program sets for radio and television should be fully guaranteed, and more service-oriented radio and television programs close to the needs of grassroots people should be added. To accelerate the construction of the formation of the central, provincial, municipal and county levels of unity and coordination, up and down, manageable and controllable, comprehensive coverage of the national emergency broadcasting system, to provide urban and rural residents with disaster early warning emergency broadcasting and government information dissemination, policy advocacy services. To accelerate the radio and television wireless transmitter infrastructure and the central radio and television program wireless digital coverage construction, accelerate the integration of the national cable television network and intelligent construction, support the expansion of the live satellite platform, strengthen the grass-roots radio and television broadcasters to build service capacity, and vigorously enhance the infrastructure to support and guarantee the ability to convergence of the business carrying capacity.

"Notice" pointed out, encourage around the basic public **** service program based on policy guidance, market operation and other means to increase public service programs, paid programs and other value-added services, and gradually guide the cultivation of personalized market services, to promote the consumption of culture and information, to give rise to a new point of economic growth. To accelerate the establishment of government-led, socialized development of radio and television public **** service long-term mechanism, and gradually formed a "county and above the management of institutions, townships and townships have outlets to support the village and group responsible for the special person, the user reasonable burden," the long-term operation and maintenance of public **** service system.

"Notice" requires, in accordance with the principle of hierarchical responsibility to increase financial investment, improve the planning and construction and operation and management of support policies. Local people's governments at all levels are responsible for promoting the upgrading of radio and television broadcasting from village to household, and should strengthen the government's responsibility and coordination to form a mechanism for promoting the work of the government's unified leadership and close cooperation with the departments. Press, publication, radio and television, development and reform, finance and other departments to strengthen the management of funds and supervision and inspection, and effectively guarantee the smooth completion of the work of radio and television household pass the various objectives and tasks.

Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Upgrading of Radio and Television

Village to Household Upgrade

Guo Ban Fa [2016] No. 20

People's Governments of Provinces, Autonomous Regions, and Municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Ministries and Commissions of the State Council and all directly subordinate institutions:

Since the implementation of the broadcasting and television village project, it has effectively expanded the coverage of rural radio and television broadcasting. Since the implementation of the radio and television project, effectively expanding the coverage of rural radio and television, the country has basically eliminated the radio and television coverage of blind areas, to solve the problem of the vast majority of rural people listening to the radio is difficult to watch television. However, with the economic and social development and the improvement of science and technology, the supply of radio and television services, service capacity and means of service are still unable to meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, and there is still a certain gap with the goal of building a moderately affluent society in all aspects, so there is an urgent need to further improve the level of broadcasting and television on the basis of the village-to-village transmission, enhance the quality of efficiency, and achieve the upgrade of the coverage from the rough type to the fine household service, and the upgrade of analog signal coverage to the digital clear reception. analog signal coverage to digital clear reception, from traditional audio-visual services to multi-level, multi-mode and multi-industry services. Accelerating the upgrading of radio and television from village to household is an important measure for building a modern public **** cultural service system, and is of great significance for innovating and improving the supply of urban and rural radio and television public **** products and services, leading the dissemination of modern culture, promoting the consumption of culture and information, improving the ideological and moral as well as scientific and cultural quality of the citizens, and adapting to the trend of diversified and differentiated dissemination. In order to effectively promote the work of radio and television households, agreed by the State Council, is hereby notified as follows:

First, the overall requirements

(a) Guiding ideology. Comprehensively implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the Third, Fourth and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, in accordance with the CPC Central Committee and the State Council decision-making and deployment, adhering to the people-centered work orientation, reform and innovation as the driving force, the main line of upgrading and development, focusing on the grass-roots level, give full play to the central and local initiatives, give full play to the role of the government and the market to vigorously enhance the coverage of the broadcasting and television capacity and service capacity, to meet the needs of the people's The basic public **** service needs of the masses for broadcasting and television are fully guaranteed, and a good environment is created to meet the people's demand for personalized and diversified cultural services.

(ii) Work objectives. Coordination of wireless, cable, satellite three technology coverage, by 2020, the basic realization of digital radio and television household pass, the formation of urban and rural coverage, convenient and efficient, fully functional, service to the household of the new radio and television coverage service system. Terrestrial wireless radio and television basic digitalization; cable radio and television network basic digitalization, two-way, intelligent, the national cable network integration has achieved significant results, to achieve interoperability; direct broadcast satellite public **** services basically cover the rural areas of the cable network is not accessible; broadcasting and television basic public **** services to meet the national guidance standards, the market efficiency of the service is further improved, the infrastructure to protect capacity Comprehensively enhance the long-term mechanism is more perfect.

Second, the main tasks

(C) the full realization of digital radio and television coverage and reception. In accordance with the "technologically advanced, safe and reliable, economically feasible, to ensure long-term" principle, taking into account the need for additional coverage and security backup, the provincial people's government to determine the region's wireless, cable, satellite coverage of the three technological methods of the program, according to local conditions, according to the household to promote the digital broadcasting and television coverage and home reception. In rural areas where conditions exist, it is encouraged to adopt cable networking, and in rural areas where cable TV is not available, it is encouraged that the public voluntarily choose live satellite, terrestrial digital TV or "live satellite + terrestrial digital TV" and other means. Adhere to the unified planning, unified standards, unified organization, in the integration of frequency, standards, network construction under the premise of promoting the completion of the central radio and television programs wireless digital coverage; support to China Radio and Television Network Limited as the main body to speed up the integration of the national cable television network as soon as possible to achieve the interconnection of cable networks and the "nationwide one network "; support the expansion of live satellite platform to enhance the capacity of public **** service support capacity to support the vast area, the traditional means of coverage of the remote areas of provincial and municipal radio and television programs through live satellite transmission, directional coverage of the province, the municipal administrative areas, to better meet the masses of people listening to and watching close to the demand for broadcasting and television programs.

(D) fully guarantee the basic public **** services. In accordance with the national guiding standards for basic public **** cultural services (2015-2020), to ensure that no fewer than 15 sets of television programs and no fewer than 15 sets of radio programs through the wireless (digital), no fewer than 5 sets of television programs and no fewer than 6 sets of radio programs through the wireless (analog); through the direct broadcasting of satellite to provide 25 sets of television programs and no fewer than 17 sets of radio programs; cable broadcasting and television in the process of conversion from Analog to digital overall conversion process, to retain a certain number of analog television programs for users to choose to watch, with conditions. Areas can determine a certain number of digital television programs as a basic public **** services. The national language comprehensive radio and television programs operated by the central and local governments should be included in the scope of the corresponding public **** service guarantee respectively. Radio and television broadcasters should strengthen cooperation with relevant government departments, and run joint service radio and television programs that are close to the needs of the grassroots, such as scientific and technological wealth, agriculture and forestry breeding, knowledge popularization, rule of law, health and epidemic prevention, sports and fitness, disaster prevention and mitigation, water conservancy and meteorology, culture and entertainment, etc., and gradually increase the broadcasting time.

(V) Accelerate the construction of the national emergency broadcasting system. In accordance with the principles of "unified linkage, safety and reliability, speed and efficiency, and integration of peace and war", the integrated use of existing radio and television resources to accelerate the establishment of the central and local levels of emergency broadcasting production, broadcasting and scheduling and control platforms, and connect with the national emergency early warning information dissemination system. Upgrading the transmission and coverage network, arranging emergency broadcasting terminals, and improving the mechanism for collecting and distributing emergency information to form a unified, coordinated, up-and-down, manageable, controllable, and comprehensively-covered national emergency broadcasting system at the central, provincial, municipal, and county levels, to provide urban and rural residents with emergency broadcasting for disaster warnings, and for distributing information on governmental affairs, as well as policy propaganda services.

(F) vigorously enhance the infrastructure support and guarantee capacity. In accordance with the radio and television project construction standards and related technical standards, accelerate the county and above wireless transmitter (relay station, monitoring station, satellite earth station) and other infrastructure construction, to meet the needs of radio and television broadcasting safety and monitoring and supervision; strengthen the grass-roots radio and television broadcasting organizations infrastructure and service capacity building, enhance the public **** service support capacity. When promoting the construction of grass-roots comprehensive cultural service facilities, give full consideration to the needs of rural radio rooms, radio and television facilities and equipment repair and maintenance outlets. Make full use of the existing infrastructure, strengthen the cable television backbone network and front-end server room construction, the use of ultra-high-speed intelligent fiber optic transmission and coaxial cable transmission technology, accelerate the construction of the next generation of radio and television network, and improve the convergence of business carrying capacity.

(VII) guide the cultivation of personalized market services. Encourage local in the basic public **** service program based on policy guidance, market operation and other means to increase the public welfare programs, paid programs and other value-added services. Encourage broadcasters, telecommunication enterprises and other content service enterprises to focus on broadband network construction, content business innovation and promotion, user popularization and application, carry out the construction of smart cities, smart villages and smart families, and develop new businesses such as high-definition television, mobile multimedia broadcasting and television, interactive network television (IPTV), cell phone television, digital broadcasting, watch-on-demand, television cinema, broadband services and network e-commerce. and services to meet the diversified, multi-level cultural information needs of the masses, promote cultural information consumption, drive the industrialization of key equipment, software and systems, and give rise to new points of economic growth.

(viii) Further promote the construction of long-term mechanism. Accelerate the establishment of government-led, socialized development of radio and television public **** service long-term mechanism, and gradually formed a "county and above the management of institutions, townships and townships have outlets to support the village and group of specialists responsible for the user a reasonable burden" of the long-term operation and maintenance system of public **** service. Policy measures such as government purchasing, project subsidies, targeted funding, and loan subsidies are taken to support the participation of various types of social organizations and institutions in radio and television public **** services. Relying on grass-roots comprehensive cultural service centers, integrating grass-roots radio and television public **** service resources, promoting radio and television household pass, providing emergency broadcasting, radio and television equipment and equipment maintenance services. Standardize cable television enterprises, live satellite receiving equipment franchise service enterprise operation and service behavior, the organization to carry out operation and service quality evaluation, and promote the continuous improvement of service level.

Third, the policy guarantee

(ix) increase funding. In accordance with the principle of hierarchical responsibility, the central and local people's governments at all levels are responsible for the level of wireless transmitter (station), rebroadcasting station (station), monitoring station (station) and other radio and television public **** facilities and institutions, construction and renovation and operation and maintenance funds, the central government through existing channels to arrange for the transfer of funds to the local in accordance with the relevant provisions of the rebroadcasting of the central broadcasting and television programs to be appropriate to subsidize the support of the local community to promote the integration of including broadcasting television household pass, including the construction of public **** cultural service system.

(J) improve the support policy. In addition to basic public **** service programs, other value-added services in addition to live satellite market-oriented operation of the pilot, in order to meet the basic needs of users to provide a richer choice of programs on the basis of, and to deal with the relationship between basic public **** services and value-added services. Under the premise that the state broadcasting and television institutions hold more than 51% of the shares, other state-owned, collective, non-public capital investment and participation in the new cable television distribution network below the county level and the digitalization of cable television receivers. Broadcasting and telecommunication enterprises are encouraged to participate in the construction and operation and maintenance of rural broadband, and the construction of a comprehensive service platform for rural informatization is encouraged. Urban and rural planning and construction should be reserved for the broadcasting network required corridor channel and site, room, power facilities, etc., network into the corridor charges can be appropriately given preferential. Increase the government's efforts to purchase services from the community to encourage social institutions to participate in public service radio and television program production, public service radio and television special facilities and equipment repair and maintenance, etc., where possible, according to the actual situation, to provide free or low-cost cable television services to special groups.

Fourth, the organization and leadership

(xi) to strengthen the government's responsibility and coordination. Local people's governments at all levels is the region to promote the promotion of radio and television village to household upgrading of the main body, to effectively strengthen the organizational leadership, the establishment of the government in charge of the comrades in charge of the lead, press, publication, radio and television departments are responsible for the organization of the implementation of the development of reform and finance and other relevant departments to participate in the leading group, the formation of the unified leadership of the Government, the work of the departments to work in close coordination with the mechanism for promoting. To effectively do a good job of radio and television household pass related basic public **** services into the local people's governments at all levels of the work agenda, into the overall planning of local economic and social development and cultural reform and development of special planning, into the public **** financial expenditure budget, into the poverty alleviation program, as a cadres comprehensive assessment evaluation of an important reference to ensure the successful completion of the objectives and tasks.

(xii) strengthen financial security and supervision. All levels of press, publication, radio and television, development and reform, finance and other departments to effectively fulfill their functions and improve the level of service. In accordance with the responsibilities of the overall arrangement of the funds required to strengthen the management of funds and audit supervision, improve the effectiveness of the use of funds to ensure that the funds are earmarked, shall not be retained and misappropriated; to strengthen the grass-roots teams and personnel training, so that the full-time and part-time radio and television personnel to master the necessary professional skills; to strengthen the supervision and management of the project and acceptance inspection, to ensure that the quality of radio and television service quality and level.

The General Office of the State Council on the further improvement of the new period of radio and television village through the work of the notice (State Office of the State Council [2006] No. 79) is repealed at the same time. Previously, the relevant provisions are inconsistent with this notice, in accordance with the implementation of this notice.

General Office of the State Council

April 5, 2016