Good News! CDUT is Listed in the Second Batch of Provincial-level Training Bases for Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors
The list of the second batch of provincial-level training bases for Chinese intangible cultural heritage (ICH) inheritors has recently been released by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, in which Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT) is listed, with the main training directions including traditional skills, traditional fine arts and folk literature.
The training bases for Chinese ICH inheritors are a research and training program established under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to implement the relevant work arrangements in the Opinions on Further Strengthening the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council. Since the implementation of the "China Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor Training Program" (Program) in 2015, the Program has completed the target of training 100,000 inheritors during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, formed a clear teaching system, work norms and management methods, mobilized colleges and universities to participate in ICH protection as an important force, expanded the team of ICH inheritance talents, promoted the social spread of the ICH protection concept, enhanced the levels of traditional craft design and production, improved the protection and inheritance of a group of projects, expanded the means and methods of ICH protection and inheritance and promoted a group of demonstration projects and exploratory projects.
The Program has also played a positive role in revitalizing traditional crafts, promoting the inheritance and development of folk art and contributing to poverty alleviation, with social influence continuing to increase. From 2021 to 2025, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will continue to organize the implementation of training tasks around representative items of national ICH and train no less than 10,000 trainees, and provincial administrative departments of culture and tourism will, together with provincial administrative departments of education and human resources and social security, organize the implementation of provincial training programs around representative items of national and provincial ICH locally and train no less than 20,000 trainees.
Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor Traditional Skills as a Category of ICH
After being approved as a provincial-level training base for Chinese ICH, CDUT will actively follow the unified requirements of the province and the state, take advantage of cultural inheritance and innovation in universities of science and engineering, actively conduct research and form its training characteristics. Initially, CDUT will start with traditional skills and traditional opera, carefully design the training program and actively conduct ICH teaching and research. CDUT plans to explore the "man-land symbiosis" concept and sustainable development of Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor ICH skills in the training of inheritors and aims to be upgraded to a national base in two years and awarded the title of “National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Education and Practice Base” or “National Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base”.
