Heritage revitalization faces hurdles

Traditional skills can help lift rural villagers out of poverty, but better infrastructure is needed, Cheng Si reports from Diqing, Yunnan.

At their black pottery workshop in the town of Nixi, in Yunnan province's Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture, the father and son were arguing again.

The time-honored pottery-making technique, handed down for more than 1,800 years, was put on the list of State-level intangible cultural heritage in 2008.