China makes solid progress in reducing poverty through the promotion of intangible cultural heritage
By Zheng Hai ou (People s Daily) 10:00, December 10, 2020
Workers manufacture vine furniture at an intangible cultural heritage workshop for poverty alleviation in Jiuzhou village, Ganzhou, east China’s Jiangxi province, April 27, 2018. (Photo by Zhu Haipeng/People’s Daily Online) Intangible cultural heritage, apart from being protected, is also playing an important part in China s poverty alleviation efforts. A total of over 2,200 intangible cultural heritage workshops have been built nationwide since July 2018 under the support of the country s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. These workshops have created half a million jobs, lifting more than 200,000 households out of poverty.