(1) traditional oral literature and the language as its carrier;
(2) Traditional arts, calligraphy, music, dance, drama, folk art and acrobatics;
(3) Traditional skills and medicines;
(4) Traditional etiquette, festivals and other folk customs;
(5) Traditional sports and entertainment;
(6) Other intangible cultural heritage.
Articles and places that are part of intangible cultural heritage belong to cultural relics, and the provisions of laws and regulations on the protection of cultural relics shall apply. Article 4 The protection of intangible cultural heritage shall follow the principles of giving priority to protection, giving priority to rescue, rational utilization and inheritance and development, and adhere to the principles of government-led, departmental responsibility and social participation. Article 5 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall strengthen their leadership over the protection of intangible cultural heritage, incorporate the protection of intangible cultural heritage into the national economic and social development plan at the corresponding level, establish a coordination mechanism for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and coordinate and solve major problems in the protection of intangible cultural heritage. Article 6 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall include the funds needed for the protection of intangible cultural heritage in the fiscal budget at the corresponding level, and set up special funds for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, which are mainly used for funding or subsidizing the representative projects, representative inheritors and regional overall protection of intangible cultural heritage. Measures for the administration of special funds shall be formulated by the competent cultural department of the people's government of the city or county (city or district) jointly with the financial department. Article 7 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall, according to the actual needs of the protection of intangible cultural heritage within their respective administrative areas, establish and improve protection institutions, and strengthen the training of specialized personnel and the construction of professional teams. Article 8 The competent department of culture shall be responsible for the organization, coordination, supervision and management of intangible cultural heritage protection, and organize the preparation and implementation of the protection plan and annual protection work plan for representative projects of intangible cultural heritage.
Development and reform, finance, education and sports, health and family planning, human society, planning and construction, land and real estate, ethnic and religious affairs, commerce, tourism, archives, local chronicles and other relevant departments shall, according to their respective responsibilities, do a good job in the protection of intangible cultural heritage.
Township (town) people's governments and sub-district offices shall clearly define the units and personnel responsible for the protection of intangible cultural heritage. Article 9 The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall be responsible for identifying representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at the corresponding level, establishing a list of representative projects at the corresponding level, and making it public. The competent department of culture shall designate the protection units of representative projects.
The competent cultural department may identify the representative inheritors of the representative projects announced by the people's government at the corresponding level, announce them to the public, and issue certificates of inheritors.
City, county (city, district) people's governments shall formulate measures for the identification and management of representative projects at the corresponding level, and the cultural authorities shall formulate measures for the identification and management of representative inheritors at the corresponding level. Article 10 For the lost inheritors, if the objective living conditions have disappeared or basically disappeared, memory protection shall be implemented.
City, county (city, district) people's government shall establish a list of intangible cultural heritage memory projects. The competent department of culture shall organize an investigation, collect relevant materials and objects such as words, pictures, audio and video, and establish a database. Eleventh representative projects of intangible cultural heritage whose living conditions are threatened, which are difficult in live transmission and are on the verge of disappearing should be rescued and protected.
The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) shall establish a list of endangered items of intangible cultural heritage. The competent department of culture shall, jointly with relevant departments, formulate rescue and protection plans, focus on supporting and cultivating representative inheritors and successors, give priority to special funds for the protection of intangible cultural heritage and places for its transmission, record, sort out and preserve project materials, objects and technological processes, and arrange or recruit personnel to learn skills. Twelfth representative projects of intangible cultural heritage with a wide audience and a good foundation for on-site communication should be protected through inheritance.
City, county (city, district) people's governments and their cultural departments can provide places for inheritance and communication according to needs, cultivate successors and support learning bases. Thirteenth projects with good living conditions, great market demand and great development potential shall be protected in a productive way.
Units and individuals that implement productive protection shall maintain the authenticity, integrity and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and shall not change their traditional production methods, traditional technological processes and core skills without authorization.
The people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) and their relevant departments shall implement preferential policies such as taxation, credit and administrative fees, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights such as trademarks, shop names and copyrights related to intangible cultural heritage, formulate support policies according to the current situation and market conditions of productive projects, and provide help for cultivating and developing markets and innovative products and services.