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Ethnic embroidery inheritance promotes ICH development

Photo shows local women make embroidery products together at Tabulehete Mongolian Township in Wusu City, Tacheng Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Activities, such as ethnic embroidery culture festival and ethnic handicrafts exhibition, boost the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage in China’s Xinjiang. As an traditional Mongolian folk art, Mongolian embroidery was inscribed in the list of state-level intangible cultural heritage items in 2008.