In the afternoon of March 12, the 2026 culture, tourism and sports work conference of Hengyang City was held to comprehensively summarize the work results in 2025, deploy the "Fifteenth Five Year Plan" and key tasks in 2026, focus on the in-depth integration of culture, tourism, sports and business exhibitions, and focus on the goal of building a city of unique tourism destination and sprinting the total cost of tourism of 100 billion Yuan. Vice mayor of the municipal government Xie Hong attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

Xie Hong stressed that 2026, as the opening year of the "Fifteenth Five Year Plan", the city's culture, tourism, broadcasting and sports system should adhere to the strategy of "building the city through manufacturing and prospering the city through culture and tourism", and anchor two core goals. We should strive for breakthroughs in deep integration, dig deep into local culture, improve the performance economy of events, and implement "attracting customers into the balance". We should make practical efforts to benefit the people and improve the public culture and national fitness system. We should strengthen the bottom line of safety and strictly control the cultural tourism market and ideological position. We will further strengthen organizational support and forge a strong team of "cultural, tourism, and sports".

The meeting made it clear that in 2026, Hengyang will strive to increase the total number of tourists and the total tourism expenditure by more than 10% and 12% respectively. We should promote the high-quality development of culture, tourism, and sports with measures such as brand creation, heritage activation and event driving, and inject strong culture and tourism momentum into the construction of national regional key cities and provincial sub central cities.