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It stipulated that Chinese citizens will not have to pay to enter the country's public art galleries in two years' time.
A joint statement issued on Thursday by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance is aimed at changing that situation.
According to the statement, public art museums and libraries at State and provincial levels will cease charging entrance fees by the end of 2011.
And when the following year is up, all public-funded art museums and libraries will be open to citizens free of charge, the statement said.
The changes come after China began giving the public free access to its museums and memorial halls in 2008.
To ensure the future strength of cultural institutions, the ministries' statement said that finance departments at all levels should give more money to art galleries and libraries, enabling those institutions to continue operating and improving their basic services without relying on entrance fees.
The central government also planned to provide special subsidies to art galleries and libraries in the less-developed regions of central and western China.
The statement encouraged art museums and libraries to become more efficient by making changes to their management and organizational structures, and to improve the services they offer to special groups such as children, rural migrant workers, the disabled, and the elderly.
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