International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage inaugurated in Beijing
The International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region was inaugurated in Beijing on May 18, 2010.
Located at the Chinese National Academy of Arts, and Supported by UNESCO, the center will be devoted to organizing regional and international training activities for the protection of intangible cultural heritage.
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea have all proposed to UNESCO establishing centers to facilitate the preservation of intangible cultural heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region. In 2008, the three countries signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing that the center in China be devoted to training, the center in Korea to the building of a database and network, and the center in Japan to research.
China's Vice Minister of Culture Zhao Shaohua and Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova attended the inauguration ceremony.
China joined the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2004.
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