Taoist master Zhang Jintao said he would push for the innovative development of Chinese traditional culture in creative ways, in an interview with China.org.cn on Sunday.

Taoist master Zhang Jintao, a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), talks to a China.org.cn reporter in Beijing on March 8, 2015. [China.org.cn]

Zhang, who is vice president of the China Taoist Association and a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), is attending the third annual session in Beijing.

"I would like to file a motion to suggest further exploring the positive elements of Taoist culture, and push forward the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese culture, in order to promote Chinese culture overseas and rebuild the confidence for the Chinese culture in the international community," he said.

The Taoist master said a Taoist musical was selected by China's Ministry of Culture as a cultural exchange program to perform at International Festival for Choir and Spiritual Music in Egypt in 2013. He also mentioned that the Third Taoist International Forum was held in Yingtan, Jiangxi Province, attracting Taoists and experts from 27 countries and regions and boosting the international influence of Taoist culture.

A new big budget high-tech outdoor Taoist folk musical "Dream of Tao", co-produced by media proprietor and talk show host Yang Lan's Sun Media Group and the local Longhu Mountain Tourism Group Corporation, became a hit among tourists and Taoists at the famous Taoist sacred mountain -- Longhu Mountain. Other key cultural tourism projects and scenery spots have also been established.

Zhang said he is trying to explore every possible way to combine new technologies, media, concepts and spiritual things with Taoist philosophy together to make the traditional Chinese religion closer to modern people's hearts.