China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism to Launch Second National Intangible Cultural Heritage Cens…
On September 24, the State Council Information Office held a press conference under the "Starting the 15th Five-Year Plan" series. Wang Jianhua, spokesperson and vice minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period a second national intangible cultural heritage (ICH) census will be conducted to establish a master catalogue of ICH resources. As of end-2025, China had 1,557 national-level ICH representative items and 3,994 representative inheritors, with over 100,000 ICH representative items at all levels. Priorities include consolidating protection and inheritance foundations, cultivating a tiered inheritor workforce, integrating ICH into mode…
Impact and considerations
The ICH census and master catalogue will affect tourism product development, destination marketing and educational travel supply; ICH workshops, brand support and consumption-promotion actions offer collaboration and product innovation opportunities for hotels, attractions, travel agencies and cultural-creative firms.
Key points
- During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, a second national ICH census will be conducted to establish a master catalogue of ICH resources.
- As of end-2025, China had 1,557 national-level ICH representative items and 3,994 representative inheritors.
- ICH representative items at all levels have reached over 100,000.
- Consolidate the foundation for ICH protection and inheritance, continue the ICH recording project, expand and upgrade cultural-ecological protection areas, and advance categorized protection.
- Cultivate a tiered inheritor workforce, strengthen recognition and management of representative inheritors, implement the Chinese ICH inheritor training program, and shift from "ICH into schools" to "ICH in schools".
- Promote ICH integration into modern life, support ICH stations and ICH life aesthetics venues, support ICH workshops to improve quality and efficiency, and transform "fingertip crafts" into the "fingertip economy".
- Implement ICH brand support plans and ICH consumption-promotion actions, deepen ICH-tourism integration, and create distinctive ICH tourism routes and products.
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- 品橙旅游
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- First source publication
- 24 Sept 2026, 08:00
- Page published
- 24 Sept 2026, 12:45
- Last updated
- 24 Sept 2026, 08:00
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- Pinchain Tourism：文化和旅游部：将建立非遗资源总目录 – 品橙旅游 (opens in a new tab)Primary source · zh · Published 24 Sept 2026, 08:00