Notice of Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism on Printing and Distributing the Measures for the Administration of Representative Projects of Hangzhou Municipal Int

Hangwenguang Travel [2021] No.44

District, county (city) Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism and Sports Bureau, relevant units:

In order to further strengthen the management of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage in our city and effectively protect the representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage, according to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Intangible Cultural Heritage Law, the Regulations on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Zhejiang Province and other relevant laws and regulations, with reference to the Administrative Measures for Representative Projects of Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage in Zhejiang Province (for Trial Implementation), and based on the actual situation of current protection work, the Administrative Measures for Representative Projects of Hangzhou Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage are studied and formulated. It is issued to you, please follow it carefully.

Hangzhou culture radio, film and television tourism administration

September 2, 2021   

Measures for the Administration of Representative Projects of Hangzhou Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage

the first  In order to strengthen the protection and management of Hangzhou intangible cultural heritage representative projects (hereinafter referred to as municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects), these measures are formulated in accordance with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Intangible Cultural Heritage Law, Zhejiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Regulations and other relevant laws and regulations, with reference to the Zhejiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project Management Measures (Trial).

the second  The term "municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects" as mentioned in these Measures refers to the projects listed in the list of representative projects of Hangzhou intangible cultural heritage published by the Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government.

Article The municipal department in charge of culture and tourism is responsible for the management of municipal non-legacy representative projects within the city.

Under the guidance of the municipal cultural and tourism authorities, the county-level cultural and tourism authorities are specifically responsible for the management of municipal-level non-legacy representative projects within their respective administrative areas.

Article 4  According to the actual situation of the city’s intangible cultural heritage protection, the municipal cultural and tourism authorities regularly organize the identification of representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage. Identification of municipal non-legacy representative projects should follow the principles of openness, fairness and impartiality, accept social supervision, adhere to administration according to law, implement standardized evaluation, and strictly perform procedures such as recommendation, review, evaluation, publicity, approval and publication.

Article 5  It is recommended to declare municipal non-legacy representative projects, which shall meet the following conditions:

(1) Conforming to the definition of intangible cultural heritage in People’s Republic of China (PRC) Intangible Cultural Heritage Law;

(2) It really exists and has outstanding historical, literary, artistic and scientific values;

(3) It has the functions of enhancing the cultural identity of the Chinese nation, safeguarding national unity and national unity, and promoting social harmony and sustainable development;

(four) in a certain group or region from generation to generation, with a long history and clear inheritance context, still exists in a living form;

(five) with distinctive regional characteristics, has a greater impact in the local.

Article 6 The following materials shall be submitted when recommending municipal non-legacy representative projects:

(a) the basic situation of the project, including the project name, introduction, distribution, history, present situation, value, inheritance scope, inheritance pedigree, inheritance activities, social impact, etc.;

(two) the project protection plan, including protection objectives, measures taken and achieved results, measures to be taken, management system, etc.;

(three) the recommended protection unit, including the qualification of the protection unit, the protection commitment, and the approval opinions of the relevant inheritors (groups);

(four) the recommendation of the expert review committee on the project;

(five) project pictures and audio-visual materials, etc.

Article 7  The competent department of culture and tourism at the county level shall co-ordinate the recommendation of municipal non-legacy representative projects within its jurisdiction, and the basic procedures are as follows:

(a) selection from the county-level non-legacy representative projects;

(two) organize expert argumentation, put forward recommended projects and audit opinions;

(three) the list of recommended projects will be publicized to the public for a period of not less than 5 working days;

(four) with the consent of the people’s government at the same level, submit a recommendation report to the municipal department of culture and tourism.

Article 8  Units directly under the municipal government can make recommendations directly to the municipal cultural and tourism authorities after organizing experts’ argumentation and obtaining the consent of the competent authorities.

Citizens, legal persons and other organizations think that an intangible cultural heritage embodies Hangzhou’s excellent traditional culture and has important value, they can put forward suggestions for inclusion in the list of municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects to the competent department of culture and tourism where the project is located, which will be reported step by step by the accepted competent department of culture and tourism, and recommended to the municipal competent department of culture and tourism according to procedures after the demonstration.

Article 9  The municipal department in charge of culture and tourism shall organize the identification of municipal non-legacy representative projects, and the basic procedures are as follows:

(a) the municipal administrative department of culture and tourism shall organize a preliminary examination of the recommended materials.

(two) the composition of the municipal non-legacy representative project expert review committee, and according to the declared project category, under the expert review committee, a number of expert review groups. The jury is composed of non-legacy experts and relevant personnel of the municipal cultural and tourism authorities. The review committee shall have 1 director and several deputy directors, and the director shall be the relevant person in charge of the municipal department of culture and tourism. The expert review team is composed of non-legacy experts of corresponding categories, and the number of members in each group is odd, with no less than 3 people in each group. The expert review team adopts the convener system, and each group has one convener.

(three) the expert review team carefully reviewed the recommended materials, and through collective appraisal, discussed and produced the primary list of municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects, and the primary list of each corresponding category should be approved by more than half of the members of the expert review team.

(four) the review committee shall consider the opinions of the review team and put forward a list of recommendations, which shall be approved by two-thirds of the members of the review committee.

(five) the municipal administrative department of culture and tourism shall publicize the approved recommendation list to the public for public opinions, and the publicity period shall not be less than 20 days.

(six) the municipal administrative department of culture and tourism will report the list after publicity to the Hangzhou Municipal People’s government for approval and publication.

Article 10  The composition of the expert review committee and the expert review team shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant requirements of the participation mechanism of experts in the protection of intangible cultural heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The members of the expert review committee and the expert review team shall, in the spirit of being responsible for the country and history, enhance their sense of mission and responsibility, abide by the law, be honest and self-disciplined, strictly abide by the confidentiality provisions, and shall not disclose the information and information about the review work to the outside world and sign a confidentiality agreement. Projects that directly participate in the production of application materials, or have an interest relationship with recommended projects, should be avoided.

Anyone who violates the discipline of the review work will be disqualified from participating in the review after verification, and will be removed from the review committee and expert review team.

Article 11 The municipal competent department of culture and tourism shall guide and co-ordinate the protection of municipal intangible cultural heritage projects within its jurisdiction. The competent department of culture and tourism where the project is located shall formulate the overall planning for the protection of the municipal-level non-legacy representative projects in the region, and organize the municipal-level non-legacy representative project protection units to prepare the annual protection plan, improve the protection organization system and institutional system, implement the protection responsibility, and quantify the annual protection task indicators.

The municipal non-legacy representative project recommended and declared by the municipal directly affiliated unit shall guide the project protection unit and prepare the annual protection plan and protection plan of the project.

Municipal intangible cultural heritage representative project protection planning, should be reported to the municipal department of culture and tourism.

Article 12 Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units specifically undertake the protection and inheritance of the project. The proposed list of protection units shall be put forward together when recommending projects. After being approved by the expert review team, it shall be recognized and published by the municipal competent department of culture and tourism, and awarded the municipal representative project signs.

Municipal representative project signs shall be hung and properly kept by the protection unit. Without the consent of the municipal administrative department of culture and tourism, the protection unit and any other unit or individual shall not change, copy and sublicense the signs without authorization.

Article 13 Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units shall meet the following conditions:

(a) in the municipal non-legacy representative project declaration area, in principle, should have the qualification of independent legal person;

(two) there is a person responsible for the protection of the project;

(3) Having a representative inheritor of the project or complete information of the project;

(four) the ability to implement the protection plan of the project, and the places and conditions for the inheritance and dissemination;

(five) approved by the representative inheritors or inheritors of the project.

Article 14  Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units have the following rights:

(a) hanging and preserving the municipal cultural and tourism departments unified production of municipal non-legacy representative project signs;

(two) in various activities can use the municipal non-legacy representative project logo;

(three) to participate in the formulation of project protection planning;

(four) give priority to participate in non-legacy seminars and promotion activities organized by cultural and tourism departments at all levels;

(five) according to the provisions of the declaration to obtain special financial subsidies for cultural and tourism departments at all levels;

(six) other rights that should be possessed in accordance with laws and regulations.

Article 15  Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units shall perform the following duties:

(a) in accordance with the protection plan and protection plan of intangible cultural heritage projects organized by the competent department of culture and tourism, improve the protection mechanism and system, implement protection measures, and actively carry out inheritance and dissemination activities;

(two) actively carry out project investigation, filing and practical research, and collect, preserve and display relevant physical objects;

(3) Keep close contact with the representative inheritors of the project, keep abreast of the physical and mental conditions and artistic skills of the representative inheritors, and provide guarantee support for them to carry out inheritance activities;

(4) Protecting the cultural sites on which the project depends;

(five) scientifically regulate the use of protection funds to ensure earmarking;

(six) regularly report to the local cultural and tourism authorities on the implementation of project protection and the use of protection funds, and accept supervision;

(seven) other obligations related to the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

Article 16  If the protection unit really needs to be adjusted, it shall follow the following procedures:

(a) the competent department of culture and tourism where the project is located shall organize the collective evaluation of the relevant inheritors, groups and units of the project;

(II) After the appraisal is passed, the competent department of culture and tourism where the project is located shall apply to the municipal competent department of culture and tourism, and the application materials shall include the reasons why the protection unit really needs to be adjusted, the newly recommended qualification materials of the protection unit and the commitment to fulfill its responsibilities;

(three) the municipal department in charge of culture and tourism shall organize the examination of the materials, form an expert group for deliberation, study and determine the list of protected units that really need to be adjusted, and publicize and publish it on the official website.

Article 17  Preservation institutions of intangible cultural heritage protection centers at or above the county level, municipal non-legacy representative project protection units and other related physical objects and materials shall establish and improve rules and regulations, properly keep the physical objects and materials of the project, and prevent damage and loss; And organize special research, innovate protection practices, and show protection results.

Article 18  The competent departments of culture and tourism at or above the county level shall, through the following measures, promote the protection and inheritance of municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects:

(a) on the basis of scientific and effective protection of municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects, encourage and support the rational use of intangible cultural heritage representative projects to develop cultural tourism products and cultural tourism services with local cultural characteristics, such as intangible tourism commodities and intangible tourism routes, expand the inheritance and consumption groups, and promote the better integration of intangible cultural heritage into modern life.

(two) under the premise of adhering to the tradition, without losing its roots, encourage and support the research and improvement of key technologies and raw materials of traditional crafts, improve the quality of traditional crafts, enhance the creative value of projects, and enhance the vitality of inheritance.

(three) for specific areas with rich intangible cultural heritage, strong atmosphere and distinctive features, cultural and ecological protection zones can be established, and the overall planning of cultural and ecological protection zones can be formulated to implement regional overall protection.

The overall planning of cultural and ecological protection areas should be incorporated into the overall planning of local economic and social development, urban and rural construction planning, and be connected with various special plans such as environmental governance, land use and industrial development.

(four) in the community, rural areas and public culture, education, sports, health and other institutions or facilities at all levels to carry out the inheritance and dissemination of municipal intangible cultural heritage projects, through exhibitions, exhibitions, education, competitions, mass media and other means to enhance the public awareness of intangible cultural heritage projects.

(five) the construction of the administrative region comprehensive intangible cultural heritage museum and learning places; Encourage municipal non-legacy representative project protection units to build exhibition and study places for the project, or set up a certain scale of research and experience sites in non-legacy tourist attractions and towns, and open them to the public.

(VI) Establish and improve the database of non-legacy representative projects, record project information truly and systematically, conduct project surveys regularly, record and store them by using modern information management means, and update relevant information such as the inheritance and dissemination activities of municipal non-legacy representative projects in a timely manner, except that it should be kept confidential according to law, which should be open to the public.

(seven) to carry out multi-sectoral cooperation in the protection of intangible heritage, to coordinate the places, environment and raw materials needed for the inheritance, promotion and operation of municipal intangible heritage representative projects, and to form a joint force for the development of intangible heritage protection.

Actively encourage and guide social forces to provide funds, places and volunteer services for the protection of municipal non-legacy representative projects.

(eight) organize the intangible cultural heritage protection training, exchange, practice and other activities attended by the municipal intangible cultural heritage protection units and inheritors in this administrative region, and improve the inheritance ability of the project protection units and municipal representative inheritors.

Encourage cooperation, co-construction and other forms to jointly carry out training and research on the protection of intangible cultural heritage with research institutions or institutions of higher learning that have the conditions for teaching and research of intangible cultural heritage and can undertake training tasks.

Article 19  The municipal administrative department of culture and tourism shall implement supervision and inspection, performance evaluation and dynamic management system for the protection and inheritance of municipal non-legacy representative projects.

Encourage citizens, legal persons and other organizations to supervise the protection and inheritance of municipal non-legacy representative projects.

Article 20  The municipal administrative department of culture and tourism shall regularly evaluate the protection and inheritance of representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage.

Article 21  Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units should establish a regular self-inspection and reporting system for project protection work. The competent department of culture and tourism where the project is located shall regularly supervise the implementation of the annual protection plan of the project.

The competent department of culture and tourism at the county level shall organize an annual inspection of the progress of the protection plan for municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects within their respective administrative areas, and submit the overall survival, implementation, inheritance, use of funds, dissemination and display of the municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects in the previous year, as well as the overall protection plan for this year’s municipal projects to the municipal competent department of culture and tourism.

The municipal non-legacy representative projects recommended and declared by the municipal directly affiliated units shall be submitted to the municipal competent department of culture and tourism every year on the project’s annual project survival, protection planning implementation, inheritance work, use of funds, dissemination and display, and this year’s project protection plan after being audited by the competent department.

Article 22 Municipal departments of culture and tourism regularly carry out spot checks on the protection and inheritance of municipal non-legacy representative projects, and the protection units that find problems in the protection and inheritance work during the spot checks should urge them to correct and rectify.

Article 23 Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units shall formulate emergency plans for emergencies and major events. The competent department of culture and tourism at the county level shall report to the competent department of culture and tourism at the municipal level in a timely manner the sudden major events that occur in the protection and inheritance of municipal intangible cultural heritage projects.

Article 24 Municipal non-legacy representative project protection units have one of the following acts, and the local cultural and tourism authorities shall make rectification within a time limit; If the circumstances are particularly serious or the rectification is ineffective, it shall be verified by the municipal cultural and tourism authorities, revoke its qualification as a protection unit, recover the municipal non-legacy representative project signs, re-identify the protection unit, and announce it to the public:

(a) ineffective protection or improper protection measures, resulting in the deterioration of the survival of municipal non-legacy representative projects or serious problems;

(two) delayed in the performance of protection duties, failed to effectively implement the municipal non-legacy representative project protection plan;

(three) distorting and derogating from the municipal non-legacy representative projects, causing adverse social impact;

(four) neglect of management, causing major conflicts between inheritors and causing adverse social impact;

(five) failing to use the government’s special funds for the protection of intangible cultural heritage in accordance with the relevant provisions;

(six) failing to submit the project protection in accordance with the relevant provisions.

Article 25  Municipal non-legacy representative projects will no longer be "alive" and die out due to changes in the objective environment, poor protection, etc., and will be approved by the municipal cultural and tourism authorities to organize experts to review and identify, report to the municipal government for approval to withdraw from the list, and make an announcement to the public.

Article 26  Individuals, units and other social organizations that have made remarkable contributions to the management, protection and inheritance of municipal intangible cultural heritage shall be commended and rewarded by the competent departments of culture and tourism at all levels in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.

Article 27  These Measures shall be interpreted by the municipal administrative department of culture and tourism.

Article 28 These Measures shall come into force as of October 15, 2021.