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On September 3, the Weifang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association of Shandong Province released that "Four integration and status " construction mode associated with Weifang cultural tourism sections and other organizations to implement the East Shangyu intangible cultural heritage community , in recent years, has achieved a great results.
Weifang owns rich culture and various crafts, was a historical handcrafts city which compared with Suzhou in China South. Dongshangyu lies in the suburb of ancient Weifang town, villagers were living on cultivation and forge iron, had been a well-known iron-smith town for over 400-years and contributed to the urban and rural socialism positively. After 2007, the village old living mode has been renovated in the urban village transformation, followed the changing on the economic mechanism of community. New era, the community decided to active the historical culture, explore new developing approach and cultivate its updated economic system.
The main contents of the project are: Guided by the concept of "four integration" (intangible cultural heritage integrated with community life, community cultural services, with community economic development, with community livelihood security), To foster "four state" environment (residual is conducive to the continued growth of ecology, in favor of genetic bearing to carry forward the living state, it forms, is conducive to intangible the strong strong body body to intangible promotion of normal) as the path, science set up seven practice platform, make traditional food gathering area, handicraft entrepreneurship center, folk culture experience characteristic brand, To create a new model of intangible heritage community development under the "four harmony" and "four states".
After the project initiated, First, a community effectively activates historical and cultural resources, enhances community cultural confidence and creativity, and gradually cultivates and forms new business conducive to residents' employment and economic prosperity, opening up new paths and space for community development. Second, the protection of intangible cultural heritage has upgrade from conceptual protection to community daily life, became a vividly life circle, effectively solved the problem that disconnection between the intangible cultural heritage and common life, rear public participation and the government's attention. It is of positive significance to enrich and improve the protection mechanism of intangible cultural heritage in the new era to make the life and sharing of intangible cultural heritage vividly present in community cultural and economic activities. Third, other related intangible culture heritage projects that are closely associated with people's lives, such as food, handicraft and traditional medicine are also introduced together to the big platform, service for the economy and people's live, build the harmonious coexistence of social history, culture and economic development.The essence rule of the intangible rooted in community and village for the economic transformation and community comprehensive governance can be duplicate in other community.
