The Chinese government has announced plans to establish 100 ¡°cultural heritage¡± centres at universities?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 ¡°build about 100 excellent Chinese traditional cultural heritage sites¡± in universities and colleges nationwide by 2020, including 50 this year, and support institutions to ¡°focus on ethnic folk music, ethnic folk arts¡± 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 ¡°promote the integration of excellent Chinese traditional culture into college education¡± and ¡°lead students¡± to ¡°learn Chinese wisdom, promote Chinese spirit [and] spread Chinese values¡±.
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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