Hanoi utilises social resources to preserve intangible cultural heritages
The capital city of Hanoi is mobilizing all resources to protect and promote the values of the city's intangible cultural heritage under a plan until 2025.
The incense offering ceremony at Saint Giong Festival, one of the three intangible cultural heritages of Hanoi which are recognized by UNESCO. (Photo: thanglongchinhphu.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – The capital city of Hanoi ismobilising all resources to protect and promote the valuesof the city's intangible cultural heritage under a plan until 2025.
The municipal Department of Culture and Sports is tasked with closely coordinating with relevant agencies, local authorities and communities in deployingsolutions to protect the heritages. Dissemination campaigns will be launched tointroduce the intangible heritage's values to both Vietnamese and international visitors, contributing toenhancing the community’s awareness in the work.
The city will compiles scientific dossiers for several local intangible cultural heritages to submit to the Ministry of Culture, Sports andTourism seeking inscription of them on the list of national intangible cultural heritage, as wellas develop publications on the heritages. Training courses will be organisedto improve the practice or performance skills for typical intangible cultural elements that are on the verge of disappearing.
Favourable policies will be issued for artists along withthe restoration of various types of intangible cultural heritage. The city will encourage andfacilitate the collection and introduction of theseheritages by both organisations and individuals.
♔ With 1,793 intangible cultural heritageitems, including three UNESCO-recognised Intangible Cultural Heritages ofHumanity, Hanoi is among the localities with the richest cultural heritagein Vietnam./.
Hanoi is among localities with the richest cultural heritage in Vietnam, with 1,793 intangible cultural heritage items, including three UNESCO-recognised Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, one on UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of Urgent Safeguarding and one World Documentary Heritage.
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The incense offering ceremony at Saint Giong Festival, one of the three intangible cultural heritages of Hanoi which are recognized by UNESCO. (Photo: thanglongchinhphu.vn) 
