China forms intangible cultural heritage protection network

Photo taken on March 28, 2019 shows a Dixi opera mask in Zhouguan Village of Xixiu District in Anshun, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Dixi, a local opera in Anshun, has been listed as one of the national intangible cultural heritages in 2006. 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/Yang Wenbin)