The National Art Fund established by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance was formally established. It is reported that the National Art Foundation has broken the system, system and industry restrictions, allowing state-owned, private, units and individuals to declare. This is undoubtedly good news for many struggling art categories.

Open public welfare fund

Cai Wu, Minister of Culture and Chairman of the National Arts Foundation Council, introduced that the National Arts Foundation is defined as a public welfare fund, and its funding scope includes four aspects: artistic creation and production, publicity and promotion, collection and collection, and personnel training. Funds should break the restrictions of system, system and industry, and remain open and extensive. State-owned, private, units and individuals can declare.

Han Ziyong, director of the National Art Fund Management Center, said that apart from accepting legal donations from individuals and organizations, the source of art funds is mainly allocated by the central government.

Yao Xin, former inspector of the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture, believes that the establishment of the National Art Fund is of great significance in breaking the original cultural capital investment mode of "hierarchical management and eating in different places" and reflecting the transformation of the government from running culture to managing culture. Yu Weiping, a member of the party group and assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance, also said that the traditional management model is characterized by direct financial subsidies and the management of cultural funds by government departments, and there are problems such as scattered cultural investment, coexistence of absence and offside, long fund management chain and low efficiency.

Fund management mode

"The fund system is not new. There are many effective similar funds abroad and at home, but the introduction of fund management in the art field is indeed a new thing. " Han Ziyong said.

The organizational structure of the National Art Foundation is as follows: the Council is the decision-making body of the Fund and is responsible for the top-level decision-making 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 number of experts in the National Social Science Fund has reached more than 1 10,000, and we will establish a useful, sufficient and practical expert database in the future." Han Ziyong said. The expert committee will review the feasibility, artistic value, social value and budget of the declared project, and put forward suggestions on whether to establish the project and the amount of funding. The principle of regional avoidance and unit avoidance of other similar funds can be adopted in the initial evaluation to conduct two-way anonymous evaluation. Projects that have passed the review are submitted to the board of directors of the fund for approval and publicity. Upon expiration of the publicity period, notify the applicant. The grantee shall sign a project funding agreement with the fund management center.

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.

Support the initial creative stage.

Meng Weidong, head of China Railway Art Troupe and composer, suggested that 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 projects in the initial stage of creation, and some projects with particularly good creation can be promoted and funded from the next step.

So, what if the funded project is unsuccessful? Han Ziyong believes that there are many uncertain factors in artistic creation. "We must also advocate tolerance and tolerate such mistakes."

In the future, the National Art Foundation will face multiple challenges. How to enlarge the fund scale? How to do a good job in operation, including perfecting the mechanism to ensure efficiency? How to ensure the universality and effectiveness of funding? These are all issues that need to be dealt with by the National Arts Foundation.