All the participants including trainees, officials and experts take a group photo at Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province on July 2. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

In recent years, based on the local conditions, the People's Government of Zhejiang Province has spared no effort in ICH safeguarding work.

According to Chen Yao, director general of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture, Zhejiang boasts 2017 national-level cultural heritages in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List, ranking 1st across the nation.

"Zhejiang has developed its own way to safeguard ICH and we would like to promote the mode to wider access, increase the public's awareness on ICH and integrate ICH into our daily lifestyles," Chen added.

 

Liang Bin, director-general of CRIHAP, delivers the speech during the opening ceremony of the Training of Trainers of Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage for Facilitators from the Asia-Pacific at Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, on July 2. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

The training focuses on several issues including UNESCO's capacity building, follow-up of the 2017 global strategy meeting with facilitators and its recommendations, network development, sustainable development, national-level policy support, international assistance, building the capacity to integrate intangible cultural heritage in development policies and program, and the inclusion of intangible cultural heritage in education.

The training also sets out to enrich the ICH faculty building in the Asia-Pacific, provides opportunities for participants to practice how to teach the basic concepts, requirements, mechanisms and policy support of the Convention, and offers the platforms for trainees from different countries to exchange views with one another.

 

Susanne Elizabeth SCHNÜTTGEN-KÖSTER, chief of the capacity building and heritage policy unit, intangiable culture heritage section, UNESCO, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Training of Trainers of Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage for Facilitators from the Asia-Pacific at Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province on July 2. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/chinadaily.com.cn]

Susanne Elizabeth SCHNÜTTGEN-KÖSTER, chief of the capacity building and heritage policy unit, intangiable culture heritage section, UNESCO, expressed her gratitude for CRIHAP's efforts to hold the training session and hoped that trainees can learn something useful from the course and get a better understanding of ICH safeguarding work in the future work.