
On November 22, Communication Conference on Intangible Culture Heritage (ICH) between Guangdong and ASEAN was held. Vice Governor of Guangdong Province Lei Yulan, Assistant Director of Foreign Liaison Bureau of Ministry of Culture Yang Zhi, Director of Guangdong Provincial Culture Department Fang Jianhong, Mayor Chen Yunxian, and Vice Mayor Mai Jiehua were present at the opening ceremony.
The activity invited representatives for culture industry in Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, culture officials from Hong Kong and Macao, and famous experts on ICH.
Lei Yulan pointed out that there are common needs for Guangdong and ASEAN both in economy and trade cooperation and cultural communication and cooperation. In recent years, ICH protection in Guangdong is improving gradually, and Guangdong hopes to extend the cooperation into the area of ICH protection, and will take the conference as a chance to learn from ASEAN countries so as to bring new contents and energy for the development of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area.
Seven carefully selected ICH performs were showed at the conference and 115 ICH items were exhibited, which gave a profound impression to the guests.
Source: IPR in China