The Chinese government has announced plans to establish 100 鈥渃ultural heritage鈥 centres at universities聽throughout the country that will run academic programmes and conduct scientific research in a bid to promote traditional Chinese culture.
The ministry of education said that it will 鈥渂uild about 100 excellent Chinese traditional cultural heritage sites鈥 in universities and colleges nationwide by 2020, including 50 this year, and support institutions to 鈥渇ocus on ethnic folk music, ethnic folk arts鈥 and folk dances, dramas and operas.
It said that these centres would run optional credit-bearing programmes for students and conduct scientific research.
The announcement also encourages universities to hire folk artists as visiting professors.
The ministry said that it wanted to 鈥減romote the integration of excellent Chinese traditional culture into college education鈥 and 鈥渓ead students鈥 to 鈥渓earn Chinese wisdom, promote Chinese spirit [and] spread Chinese values鈥.
It has been seen as a move to counter the growing popularity among young people of culture from the West and other Asian nations.
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