Mr. LI Xinfeng
Executive Deputy Director-General, China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
The Chinese government attaches great importance to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. In recent years, with the concerted efforts of various social sectors, China has witnessed a sound momentum of development in the safeguarding of ICH, and accumulated a lot of experience in the implementation of the Convention. We are ready to share with these countries our practices and experience so that we can join forces to safeguard the shared cultural legacy and strengthen the common cultural bond of our entire humanity.
China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage is a national professional institute for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in China. Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, it has assumed the duty to report to the UNESCO the specific organization and evaluation work on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since its inception. The Center is also directly involved in the evaluation of China’s national inventory of intangible cultural heritage and the national inventory of representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage items. It is also responsible for the research and study on the building of cultural ecology reserves and the theory study, education and training related to intangible cultural heritage. So far, the center has held nearly 20 training courses on ICH safeguarding, and organized large-scale publicity campaigns and exhibitions on intangible cultural heritage at home and abroad on many occasions, contributing significantly to the promotion of China’s intangible cultural heritage at the national and international fronts. I sincerely hope that we will take this seminar as a starting point to carry out more extensive exchanges and cooperation with the ASEAN member states.