Chinanews.com, Baoding, December 27th (Lu Zihao and Xu Qiaoming) On the evening of the 26th, the 6th China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference with the theme of "Building an Ecological Circle for the Integration of Urban and Rural Textile Intangible Heritage" was held in the "Hometown of Chinese Textiles" Opened in Gaoyang County, Hebei Province.
This conference is co-hosted by China National Textile and Apparel Council, Hebei Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and Baoding Municipal People's Government, and co-organized by China National Textile and Apparel Council's Intangible Cultural Heritage Office and Gaoyang County People's Government.
The "2022 China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Promotion Ambassador" was announced.
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Chen Weikang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of China Textile Industry Federation, said in his speech that the China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference has been successfully held for five sessions since 2017.
The China National Textile and Apparel Council will gradually shift the focus of the industry's intangible cultural heritage work to urban and rural areas, and strive to build an ecological circle for the integration of urban and rural textile intangible cultural heritage.
It is hoped that through the holding of this conference, we will take more powerful measures and gather more powerful forces to comprehensively promote textile intangible cultural heritage and help rural revitalization.
Dong Jihua, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said that Hebei's textile and garment industry has a long history and has a number of characteristic industrial clusters such as Xinji leather, Gaoyang towels, Qinghe cashmere, and Baigou bags.
In recent years, the province has accelerated the promotion of design innovation, intelligent manufacturing, and brand cultivation, increased technological transformation, accelerated the cultivation of specialized and new enterprises, and firmly promoted the high-quality development of the textile industry.
"China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Top Ten Creative Products" awards ceremony.
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According to Gao Huaijun, member of the party group of Baoding CPPCC and secretary of the Gaoyang County Party Committee, Gaoyang is a famous textile town in the country with a textile history of more than 400 years.
At present, the county has more than 3,000 textile enterprises with 120,000 employees. The annual output value of the textile industry reaches 43 billion yuan. The production and sales of towels and blankets account for one-third of the national market share. It has been awarded the "China Towel and Blanket Famous City" With titles such as "Texile Industry Innovation Demonstration Cluster Area", Gaoyang Textile Trade City was rated as "China's Top Ten Textile Professional Markets".
Gao Huaijun said that the county will take this grand event as an opportunity to build a modern industrial system and build a textile industry cluster with a level of 100 billion; promote digital reform and use digital technology to empower industrial upgrading; fully tap intangible cultural heritage. Promote development, promote inheritance through industry, and make textile non-material culture continue to flourish in the county.
The opening show of "Weaving Dreams in Gaoyang and Dyeing the World".
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At the opening ceremony, 12 people including Wang Yao, a master of Chinese national batik art, Tian Haitao, a provincial representative inheritor of Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving techniques, and Qi Qiulan, dean of the Jiangnan Weaving Institute Research Institute, were awarded the title of "2022 China Textile Intangible Heritage Promotion Ambassador" .
It is reported that this conference will last for three days.
During the period, the textile intangible cultural heritage summit forum will also be held, and the 2021/2022 textile intangible cultural heritage development report will be released.
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