Hechi regulates intangible cultural heritage protection

On Dec 29, Hechi held a press conference briefing on the city's implementation of "The Hechi Regulations for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritages." The Hechi regulations which took effect on Jan 1, are for the protection, preservation, inheritance and utilization of the city's local cultural heritage.

In recent years, Hechi has achieved remarkable results regarding the protection and inheritance of the city's precious cultural heritage. So far, the southern Chinese city has placed 8,730 items in its intangible cultural heritage census, including nine national-level ones, 45 in the autonomous region level, 87 in the municipal level and 592 county-level ones. In addition, there are representative inheritors for each level, with two national-level inheritors, 44 autonomous region-level inheritors and 72 municipal-level inheritors.

Furthermore in 2011, the Ministry of Culture approved the establishment of the bronze drum culture (Hechi) experimental protection zone. It is the only national-level cultural experimental protection zone in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The implementation of the regulations signifies the standardization and legalization of protection, management and utilization of Hechi's intangible cultural heritage. It will play a key role in traditional culture protection by promoting the construction of cultural protection zones and the building of a national cultural brand.