China sees remarkable progress in keeping intangible cultural heritage alive
This year marks the 20th anniversary of China joining UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Xinhua reports
Over the past two decades, China has made remarkable achievements in preserving and promoting the development of Intangible Cultural Heritage In 2011, it enacted a law on ICH, and provincial-level regions nationwide have also issued their local regulations on ICH protection.
To date, China has over 100,000 ICH items of various levels, including 1,557 featured on the national list. A total of 3,056 people are recognised as national-level ICH inheritors.
Chinese central authorities have also conducted training programmes for the inheritors, providing relevant training for over 40,000 people over the past 10 years.
Earlier this month, UNESCO inscribed the Spring Festival, the social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional new year, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, bringing the number of intangible cultural heritage items in China on the UNESCO list to 44, the most of its kind worldwide.
