SARFT: Resolutely resist high pay and eliminate sissy aesthetics

Today (September 2), the State Administration of Radio and Television issued a notice on "Further Strengthening the Management of Art Programs and Personnel", requiring a resolute resistance to high pay and a resolute elimination of effeminate and other abnormal aesthetics. Strictly rectify artists' illegal and immoral behavior, "fan circle" chaos and other issues, resolutely resist pan-entertainment, and resolutely resist illegal and immoral personnel. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

1. Firmly resist illegal and immoral personnel. Radio and television organizations and online audio-visual platforms should strictly control the selection of actors and guests for programs, and insist on using political literacy, moral character, artistic level, and social evaluation as selection criteria. Those who have incorrect political positions and are alienated from the Party and the country should be firmly rejected; those who violate laws and regulations and impact the bottom line of social fairness and justice should be firmly rejected; those who violate public order and good customs and whose words and deeds are immoral and irregular should be firmly rejected.

Second, firmly oppose the traffic-only theory. Radio and television organizations and online audio-visual platforms shall not broadcast idol development programs, and shall not broadcast variety entertainment and reality shows with the participation of celebrity children. Talent shows must strictly control the setting of voting links, and shall not set up off-site voting, ranking, support and other links and channels. It is strictly forbidden to guide and encourage fans to vote in disguised form by material means such as shopping and membership, and resolutely resist the bad "fan circle" culture.

3. Resolutely resist pan-entertainment. Strengthen cultural confidence and vigorously promote China's excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture. Establish a correct aesthetic orientation for programs, strictly control the selection of actors and guests, performance style, clothing and makeup, etc., and resolutely put an end to abnormal aesthetics such as "sissy". Resolutely resist the hype of showing off wealth and pleasure, gossip and privacy, negative hot spots, vulgar "Internet celebrities", and bottom-line ugliness.

Fourth, resolutely resist high pay. Strictly implement the regulations on actors and guests' pay, and strictly implement the system of notification and commitment for pay management. Advocate and encourage actors and guests to take social responsibilities and participate in public welfare programs. Severely punish pay violations, "yin-yang contracts", and tax evasion.

5. Effectively strengthen the management of practitioners. Strictly implement the host certification, standardize the hosts' participation in social activities and online information release. Strengthen the political quality training of practitioners, carry out in-depth education on Marxist views on news and literature and art, always stand firm on the people's side and stick to the people's feelings. Improve professional ethics, strengthen professional ethics construction, consciously resist the temptation of fame and fortune, do not use professional status and personal fame to seek improper benefits, consciously accept social supervision, and be a model of social morality and a builder of positive energy.

6. Carry out professional and authoritative literary and artistic reviews. Adhere to the correct political direction, public opinion orientation, and value orientation, promote truth, goodness, and beauty, refute falsehood, evil, and ugliness, and give full play to the role of value guidance, spiritual guidance, and aesthetic enlightenment. Put social benefits and social values ​​first, unify profound thoughts, exquisite art, and excellent production, and evaluate programs seriously and objectively. Take a scientific view of quantitative indicators such as ratings and click-through rates, and increase the promotion and application of "China Audiovisual Big Data".

7. Give full play to the role of industry organizations. Radio, television, online audio-visual industry associations and other social organizations should further improve industry norms and self-discipline conventions and actively carry out moral evaluation. Strengthen ideological and political education, professional ethics and other education and training, establish a regular training mechanism, optimize teaching content, strengthen case teaching, and use cases to explain the law and use cases to illustrate the law. Clearly criticize the industry's bad phenomena and negative examples, resolutely oppose circle culture and industry bad habits, correct the root cause, and maintain a good atmosphere in the industry.

8. Effectively perform management responsibilities. Radio and television administrative departments should improve their political stance, conscientiously implement the responsibility system for ideological work, further tighten the local management responsibility, the responsibility of the responsible host and the main responsibility, and strictly control the orientation, content, personnel, remuneration and publicity of art programs. We should pay attention to listening to the voices of the people, actively respond to the concerns of the people, and resolutely say "no" to illegal and immoral behavior, star-making, pan-entertainment, and "traffic first", so that the main theme and positive energy can fill the radio and television and online audio-visual space.