UNESCO, China’s Gansu Collaborate in Cultural Heritage Protection

The UNESCO and northwest China’s Gansu Province have signed a partnership agreement to promote cultural heritage protection and development of creative industries in the province.

At the virtual signing ceremony on March 24, Shahbaz Khan, director and representative of the UNESCO Beijing Office, said UNESCO is committed to continuing to support Gansu in becoming a “truly world class cultural center.”

UNESCO will bring in the best practices in site conservation and management, sustainable cultural tourism development, community involvement in heritage protection, safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, and development of cultural and creative industries, Khan said.

According to the agreement, UNESCO will provide solutions for the province to implement a cultural and creative industry development framework and hold training sessions on intangible cultural heritage protection and creative industries development.

The Gansu provincial government hopes the cooperation will allow it to share with the world its experience in cultural heritage protection and innovation so as to promote global cultural development, said Chen Weizhong, head of the Gansu provincial department of culture and tourism.