China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Issues 15th Five-Year Plan for Intangible Cultural Heritage
China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage, setting overall requirements, key tasks and safeguards. By 2030, it aims to form an initial new framework for systematic ICH protection, deepen ICH integration into modern life, and see new inheritance and experience scenarios emerge. Six key task areas cover improving the project protection system, optimizing talent cultivation, serving national strategies, creating new life-integration scenarios, deepening tech empowerment and boosting communication reach.
Impact and considerations
The plan sets policy direction for culture-tourism integration and ICH-themed travel products and experience scenarios; businesses can watch opportunities from digital management of ICH resources and stronger communication capacity.
Key points
- The Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- By 2030 the plan aims to form an initial new framework for systematic ICH protection with improved institutions and mechanisms.
- Six key task areas are defined: consolidating protection foundations, strengthening inheritance capacity, serving national strategies, activating development potential, deepening tech empowerment and enhancing communication reach.
- The plan arranges special work on ICH surveys and databases, inheritance talent pipelines, life-oriented protection, digital management and application of ICH resources, and communication capacity.
- It calls for stronger leadership, improved policies and regulations, reinforced support, and expanded public participation.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- 中国旅游新闻网
- Other sources
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- First source publication
- 21 Sept 2026, 08:00
- Page published
- 21 Sept 2026, 22:09
- Last updated
- 21 Sept 2026, 08:00
- Original links
- China Tourism News：文化和旅游部发布《非物质文化遗产保护传承“十五五”规划》-中国旅游新闻网Document (opens in a new tab)Primary source · zh · Published 21 Sept 2026, 08:00