The source of the art fund is mainly the central financial allocation, and it can also accept legal donations from individuals and organizations. The central government has allocated considerable funds, which is expected to increase every year.
Han Ziyong, director of the National Art Fund Management Center, said that the original art projects of the state finance still exist, and the National Art Fund is incremental.
-The second question: Where is the money spent? Creation+promotion+collection+education.
The Art Fund focuses on four major directions: creation and production, publicity and promotion, collection and collection, and personnel training.
In terms of creative production, the focus of funding is the creative production of artistic noumenon. Ye Xiaogang, deputy dean of the Central Conservatory of Music and composer, said, "The perceptual education of our whole nation is very lacking. For example, the children in our conservatory of music are excellent, and they are outstanding in the world. When they were young, their artistic ability began to weaken, and the bigger they got, the worse they got, which had a lot to do with the lack of aesthetic education. We must encourage our national cultural elites to create more, and hope that the fund can tilt in this regard. "
-Three questions: Who can declare: Any unit or individual can declare.
The application subject of the fund is oriented to the whole society. No matter whether it is state-owned or private, no matter whether it is a unit or an individual, as long as it meets the conditions, it can apply for fund support.
The application procedure is: the National Arts Foundation Council examines and approves the annual application guide of the National Arts Foundation and announces it to the whole society. The reporting units and individuals shall determine the projects to be declared and fill in the project application form according to the conditions and requirements stipulated in the Declaration Guide, and declare in accordance with the Measures for the Administration of National Art Fund Project Declaration.
-Four questions: Who will judge? Two-way anonymous preliminary evaluation of the expert committee.
According to the actual needs of the fund's annual work, the National Art Fund Management Center randomly selects or selects relevant experts from the national art fund expert database before consultation, evaluation and supervision, and is appointed once a year by the Council to undertake the functions of consultation, evaluation and supervision, and put forward consulting opinions, evaluation results and supervision reports.
According to the principle of "openness, fairness and justice", the expert committee evaluates the declared project from the aspects of project feasibility, artistic value, social value and budget, and puts forward suggestions on whether to establish the project and the amount of funding. Projects that have passed the expert review shall be submitted to the National Arts Foundation Council for approval and publicized to the public. Upon the expiration of the publicity period, the applicant shall be notified in time. The grantee shall sign a project funding agreement with the National Art Fund Management Center.
"The number of experts in the National Social Science Fund has reached more than 10,000, and we will establish a useful, sufficient and practical expert database in the future." Han Ziyong said that in the initial evaluation, he may learn from the experience of other similar funds and adopt the principle of regional avoidance and unit avoidance to conduct two-way anonymous evaluation.
-Five questions: Who will operate: decision-making, coordination, implementation, supervision, proper separation and mutual restraint.
The organizational structure of the National Art Foundation is designed as follows: The Council is the decision-making body of the Fund, responsible for the top-level decision-making of the Fund and ensuring the healthy development of the Fund. The management center is specifically responsible for the organization and implementation of the fund and is the executive department. Give core powers, such as the right to examine, supervise and accept conclusions, to the expert committee. "The system design of the National Art Foundation is to properly separate decision-making, coordination, implementation and supervision, cooperate with each other and restrict each other. It should be said that such an idea is in line with the general principles of modern governance system and governance capacity. " Han Ziyong said.
So, who will supervise the expert Committee? Han Ziyong said that the composition of the expert committee includes art experts, financial experts and supervision and management experts, as well as the supervision of the expert committee by the management center and the supervision of the management center by the board of directors. Through the information release mechanism, the social supervision and management center, but also accept the supervision of higher authorities, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Finance, including the audit of the audit department.
-Question 6: Will the "fund" be a "bonus"? Support the initial creative stage.
Meng Weidong, the head of China Railway Art Troupe and composer, raised a question: The national art fund should not be a bonus. "If someone puts forward a project in a college, after discussion by the Committee, the project is really good and should be funded. At this time, the funds will follow up and start, which is really awesome. "
In this regard, Han Ziyong said that the National Art Foundation mainly supports the initial creative stage, and some particularly good creations can be promoted and funded from the next step.
-Question 7: What if the funded project is unsuccessful? "tolerance error"
The applicants for the National Arts Foundation are so complicated, will there be some out-of-control situations? Han Ziyong said: "We will establish a credit testing mechanism for applicants. If you declare this fund, the completion will be included in the basic conditions for your declaration again in the future. If the quality is neglected, the responsibility is perfunctory, and the level is lowered, serious quality problems will occur, which will affect future declarations. "
"Of course, the production of art is complicated, and there are many uncertain factors in artistic creation," Han Ziyong said. "We should also advocate tolerance and tolerate such mistakes. But in general, we will establish a mechanism of mutual supervision and restriction to promote the healthy development of art funds. "