Congratulatory letter from President Hu Jintao
Updated: 2004-09-12

At the time of the upcoming art festival, I wish to extend my warm congratulations to this event as well as my best regards to the art and literary workers and artists from home and abroad!
As a gala of culture and arts, the China Arts Festival has been providing a stage for the artists to show their talent and their excellent art and literary works. It is also a grand occasion for the people to enjoy themselves. For quite a long time, the festival has maintained the correct orientation for art and literature, which has helped promote the development of Chinese culture and art and the economic advancement of the host areas, making huge contributions to people's spiritual life.

The superb art and literary works can inspire the people to stride forward courageously and may have a positive impact on the whole society. At a time when people throughout the country are striving to build China into a better-off society and when the socialistic modernization cause is entering a new stage, the literary and art workers bear the responsibility of singing the praises of our times and purifying the souls of our people. I hope that every one of you could go deep into the people's life with great passion of artistic creation, to work out more high-quality works of art and to make contribution to the development of Chinese art undertaking as well as the human civilization.

Wish the Seventh China Arts Festival a huge success!

President of the People's Republic of China

Hu Jintao