By Li Jiesi for Global Times, reports say that Liu Zepeng, a national committee member of CPPCC, expressed his concern over the phenomenon of Xiao Shenyang's popularity at a group discussion of the political consultative conference on March 10. He thought that Chinese culture had been "losing its way" and heading towards vulgarity in recent years. Meanwhile, he also said that the Spring Festival Gala should shoulder the inescapable responsibility for promoting vulgar culture and it should be discontinued.
Committee member Liu Zepeng said in his speech: "The issue of culture indeed deserves our attention." He said that many cultural phenomena in China nowadays were worrying and that Chinese culture had lost its direction in recent years.