On April 13 in 2023, CRIHAP held the 12th session of its Governing Board in Beijing, combining both online and offline methods. Wang Yongjian, first inspector for the Bureau of International Exchanges and Cooperation at China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, chaired the session on behalf of Zhang Xu, the Chairperson of the Governing Board. Members of the board attended the session, while members of CRIHAP’s Advisory Committee as well as representatives from the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, the UNESCO Beijing Office, the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) and the International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (ICHCAP), participated as nonvoting delegates. The board reviewed and approved CRIHAP’s annual work report and the 2023 work plan, among other matters.

Despite the lack of conditions to organize cross-border on-site training, CRIHAP persisted in conducting ICH capacity-building trainings (primarily online), and organized a total of eight international training workshops throughout 2022. These training activities fall into three priority categories: training of trainers, training on working mechanisms of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and related training under ICH and sustainable development, including five themes such as youth, creative industries and climate change. These workshops have benefited more than 500 people from nine countries in three sub-regions of Northeast Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. In addition, CRIHAP also assisted UNESCO headquarters in training nearly 100 new members of UNESCO’s Global Network of Facilitators in ICH safeguarding from around the world.

Most of CRIHAP’s training workshops in 2022 had continuity and coherence, which has substantial significance for consolidating training effectiveness and accumulating cooperation resources and channels in target countries. For example, there were four training workshops, each belonging to a three-year plan customized by CRIHAP for relevant countries and themes. The training workshops for the Philippines and Laos were the third or second phase of their respective three-year plans, and the Workshop on Capacity Building for ICH Safeguarding for the Youth from China, Japan, South Korea and Mongolia was the second phase of a three-year youth training programme.

The proportion of "ICH+" themed training was also relatively large, further enhancing the attractiveness and sustainability of training. This type of training focuses on themes within and across fields such as ICH and youth, climate change and creative industries. It conforms to UNESCO’s recent priority of intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development and also meets countries’practical training needs.

Last year, CRIHAP continued to promote the branding construction of youth training, making "CRIHAP," "youth training" and "short video shooting" three key words for CRIHAP's training branding. The youth training session for China, Japan, South Korea and Mongolia in 2022 marked the second phase of a three-year customized youth training plan, using short videos to strengthen the impact. After the training, a total of 50 intangible cultural heritage short videos were collected. CRIHAP also introduced follow-up actions and signed cooperation agreements with six universities that sent participants to the training, determining plans for future projects such as joint field investigations, shooting and production of intangible cultural heritage videos.