China's 15th Five-Year Intangible Heritage Plan Pushes 'Heritage on Campus'

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage, setting overall requirements, key tasks and safeguards for the period and proposing to advance 'intangible heritage on campus' by converting heritage resources into quality educational resources. The plan makes systematic arrangements for curricula and textbooks, teaching resources, learning spaces and long-term cooperation, and proposes a 'three-in-one' education model of general heritage courses, specialized heritage courses and heritage research-practice. It encourages schools to develop heritage-themed school-based curricula, use heritage resourc…