Cultural heritage test has preservation in spotlight

Co-organized by Cultural Monthly magazine and Beijing Union University, a nine-month national intangible cultural heritage knowledge contest has concluded with 154 people from a range of professions winning.

But at the awards ceremony on June 8 in Beijing, experts called for more action to preserve culture.

"While society is developing so fast today and changing people's lifestyles and customs a lot, our intangible cultural heritage must be passed down to future generations," said Qu Shengrui, a former official in the Ministry of Culture. "The accelerating processes of industrialization and modernization are damaging that heritage.