Mr. Liang Bin, Director-General of CRIHAP, gives an overview of CRIHAP’s capacity building work in 2012-2018.

Mr. Wang Chenyang, First Level Counsel of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, presented the report "Capacity Building of Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding in China" on the first day of the workshop. He proposed that at present, the main task of China's intangible cultural heritage safeguarding has entered a new stage of improving the level of intangible cultural heritage transmission, and it is necessary to bring intangible cultural heritage back to the community and to daily lives. He said that we should start to scientifically safeguard intangible cultural heritage from the transmission capacity, practice and environment of ICH safeguarding. Let intangible cultural heritage play a social role in people's daily lives and develop the contemporary value of intangible cultural heritage to promote the sustainable development of society.

Mr. Liang Bin, Director-General of CRIHAP, gave an overview of CRIHAP’s capacity building work in 2012-2018. He said that in the past seven years, with the strong support of relevant departments of the Chinese government, UNESCO, and its member states in the Asia Pacific region, as well as relevant international institutions, CRIHAP has carried out regional, sub-regional and national intangible cultural heritage training. In addition to regular training themes such as approval, implementation, community-based inventorying, safeguarding plan and policy development, developed by UNESCO. CRIHAP also included themes such as intangible cultural heritage and natural disasters, intangible cultural heritage and media, intangible cultural heritage and higher education, and received positive feedbacks from the Asia Pacific region and the international community. At present, CRIHAP’s cooperation network is expanding year by year, and the demand for intangible cultural heritage training from the Asia Pacific region is increasing. In this context, it is necessary to study and understand the needs and suggestions of different countries and regions for future training.

Cooperative partners, participants from past CRIHAP training activities (from more than 20 countries including China, ROK, Pakistan, Nepal, Vietnam, Fiji and Mongolia), and the officials from cultural departments of China’s cities, provinces, and autonomous regions who work in the intangible cultural heritage field, also made suggestions to CRIHAP’s future training activities during this workshop.