GUANGZHOU - Senior Chinese Leader Li Changchun called for more efforts to boost cultural industries in order to support the country's overall scientific development.

Cultural industries, if properly developed, have unique and outstanding advantages in facilitating the country's initiatives on optimizing economic structure, stimulating consumption, increasing employment and promoting leap-forward development, according to Li.

Li, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks during a five-day inspection tour in the coastal Guangdong province that concluded Monday.

It might be possible to achieve cultural innovations by combining the sector with new technologies as well as the tourism industry, Li said.

Moreover, Li urged the country's grassroots-level authorities to offer more public cultural services to migrant workers living in cities, and to explore new channels of exchange in order to ease the urban-rural cultural gap.

Li also addressed issues concerning the transfer of development patterns by stressing independent innovations and low-carbon emission businesses.

Li's visit came about three weeks after the CPC Central Committee adopted its landmark resolution on deepening reform of the cultural system while promoting the development of the cultural industry.

That resolution marks the beginning of a new stage for the country's cultural sector, Li said.