China forms intangible cultural heritage protection network

Gui Xue displays wooden pot works at his studio in Yantan Village of Jingchuan Township in Xuancheng City, east China's Anhui province, April 12, 2019. Gui Xue is an inheritor of the wooden pot art, one of Xuancheng's intangible cultural heritages. China has set up a nationwide intangible cultural heritage protection network comprising 2,467 institutions and 17,308 personnel as of the end of 2018, according to a government report. These institutions sponsored about 65,500 related performances and over 16,800 folk culture activities in 2018, attracting 98 million people to watch, said the report from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)