The General Office of the Hainan Provincial People's Government issued an announcement, proposing that Hainan will encourage social forces to set up museums and give priority to the development of non-State-owned museums with regional characteristics, industry characteristics, as well as folk culture.
To date, there are 18 non-State-owned museums in Hainan. The provincial government will support social power to set up museums from seven aspects, including land, venue, financial subsidies, and exhibitions.
Hainan encourages cities and counties to use ancient villages, ancient buildings, scenic spots, industrial buildings, as well as abandoned factories and commercial buildings to set up museums.
Hainan also encourages these museums to hold nationwide exhibitions and global touring exhibitions, as well as encourages them to host special exhibitions from overseas.
The province plans to provide six types of financial subsidies: construction subsidies, grading subsidies, exhibition subsidies, free opening subsidies, loan interest discount support, as well as tax and fee reduction support. For any non-State-owned museum that is newly built, renovated or expanded with an investment of 20 million yuan ($3.15 million) or more, it will be given a one-time project construction subsidy of up to 5 percent of the total investment, with a maximum subsidy amount of 20 million yuan.
The announcement also proposed promoting the development of high-level non-State-owned museum clusters in major cities like Haikou, Sanya, and Danzhou.
The Sanya Natural Museum. [Photo/Hainan Daily]
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