Ms. Luo Wei, member of the Advisory Committee, and Executive Deputy Director-General of China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, said it is commendable that CRIHAP insists on its own attempts and innovations within the framework of UNESCO’s overall work plan, based on its institutional orientation as a UNESCO Category 2 center and under the framework of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention. It is creditable that CRIHAP focused on special capacity-building training, such as “post-disaster reconstruction”, and took the younger generation into special account in the field of safeguarding ICH. She said she looked forward to CRIHAP’s follow-up work after the training, thus gradually forming a research report on the development of intangible cultural heritage in the Asia-Pacific.

Ms. Zhang Min, member of the Advisory Committee, head of cultural section of the Chinese Consulate General in Chicago and UNESCO facilitator for intangible cultural heritage, said that it is a great pleasure to see CRIHAP continue to move closer to the work highlighted by UNESCO. CRIHAP holds 8 to 10 training workshops in the Asia-Pacific every year, and will carry out about 30 training workshops in the next three years.The workload will be great. She also added that the positive feedback from some government officials and experts from those countries had received the trainings is impressive. She said she hoped that CRIHAP will continue focusing on training and further expand the regions and countries involved in the training activities. The training should be based in the Asia-Pacific, while the centre can try to provide training services within its capability to countries with training needs outside the region.

Mr. Su Xu, member of the Advisory Committee and former Deputy Director of the China Cultural Center in Paris, fully affirmed and congratulated the substantive achievements of CRIHAP in its contribution to UNESCO through hard work. He said that he believed the centre still had much room for development in the future, and suggested that on the basis of specifying the Three-year Development Plan, CRIHAP should continue to improve the quality of the workshops, and enhance the influence of training in Asia-Pacific and even in the world.