(May 14, 2008 45th promulgated by the Ministry of culture as of June 14, 2008) article for the effective protection and inheritance of State-level intangible cultural heritage, encourage and support State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors to carry out teaching activities, in accordance with relevant regulations of the State, these measures are formulated.
    Second approach is known as the "State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors", refers to the designated by the cultural Administrative Department under the State Council to assume State-level intangible cultural heritage items passing on the responsibility to protect, a recognized representative, authoritative and influential people.
    Article finds that State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors, should adhere to the principles of openness, fairness and justice, strictly fulfill the Declaration, audit, evaluation, publicity, and approval procedures.
    Article citizens comply with the following conditions may apply for or be recommended for national-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors: (a) the master and inherited a national intangible cultural heritage; (b) is recognized as the representative in certain regions or areas and influence (iii) active in heritage activities, develop subsequent talent.
    In the non-material cultural heritage data collection, collation and research personnel shall not be recognized as a national project representative successors of intangible cultural heritage.
    V article citizens proposed national non-material culture heritage project representative heritage people application of, should to location County above culture administrative sector provides following material: (a) applicants basic situation, including age, and gender, and education, and career, and work units,; (ii) the project of heritage pedigree and applicants of learning and practice experience; (three) applicants of skills features, and achievements and the related of proved material; (four) applicants holds the project of related real, and information of situation;
    (E) other helps the applicant representative material.
    State-level intangible cultural heritage protection unit of the project to the local cultural administration departments at or above the county level shall recommend the project representative successors, but must obtain the applicant's consent, references should include the contents of the first paragraph.
    Protection is a provincial administrative units directly under the Department of the project, references can be directly submitted to the provincial culture administration; protection unit of the project is affiliated with the departments of the central unit, the references can be directly submitted to the cultural Administrative Department under the State Council.
    Article sixth cultural Administrative Department after receiving the application materials or references, should organize experts to review and escalation.
    Provincial cultural administration departments upon receipt of such material, shall organize the provincial Review Committee of experts on intangible cultural heritage, combined with the distribution of the projects within the administrative area of the proposed list of recommended and approved, together with the original application materials and expert review comments submitted to the cultural Administrative Department under the State Council.
    Article seventh cultural administrative departments of the State Council upon receipt of the provincial cultural administration departments to submit application materials, combined with the distribution of applications across the country, sorting, organizing the project expert group in the field of evaluation, evaluation comments made by the expert group. Article eighth cultural Administrative Department under the State Council to set up a State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors Review Committee.
    Panel of experts group evaluation audit review, proposed project representative successors of State-level intangible cultural heritage list.
    Nineth cultural administrative departments of the State Council on the recommendation of the Review Committee's representative successors list to the public, publicity for 15 days.
    Article tenth cultural Administrative Department under the State Council publicized results, audited list of State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors, and to the public.
    11th National intangible cultural heritage protection project unit should take text, images, audio, video or any other means, comprehensive account of the project representative successors acquired intangible cultural heritage forms, skills and knowledge, there are plans to recruit and maintain representative successors of works, building up archives.
    12th article levels culture administrative sector should carried out pass activities does have difficult of national non-material culture heritage project representative heritage people be support, support way main has: (a) funding heritage people of establishing passes or education training activities; (ii) provides necessary of pass activities places; (three) funding about skills information of finishing, and published; (four) provides show, and publicity and the other conducive to project heritage of help.
    No income source, life is really difficult national-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors, the local cultural administrative departments should actively create conditions and encourage social organizations and individuals to finance and guarantee their basic living needs. 13th article national non-material culture heritage project representative heritage people should bear following obligations: (a) in not violation national about legal regulations of premise Xia, according to culture administrative sector of requirements, provides full of project operation program, and technology specification, and raw materials requirements, and skills essentials,; (ii) developed project heritage plans and specific target task, reported culture administrative sector record; (three) take accepting students for, and running, way, carried out heritage work, no retained to taught skills, training subsequent talent; (four) active participation exhibition
    , Shows, seminars, exchanges and activities, (v) regularly report to the local administrative Department for cultural heritage of the submitted projects.
    14th Provincial Cultural Administration in administrative areas at the end of each representative successors of State-level intangible cultural heritage projects submitted to the cultural Administrative Department under the State Council.
    15th cultural Administrative Department under the State Council shall set up a State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors archives.
    Cultural Administrative Department under the State Council to make outstanding contributions to the State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors, recognition and rewards.
    16th State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors without justifiable reason not to perform the obligation of transmission, after verification by the provincial administrative departments, cultural Administrative Department under the State Council, canceled its representative successors qualifications recognized once again the representative inheritor of the project.
    State-level intangible cultural heritage items representative successors lost the ability to pass, after verification by the provincial administrative departments, cultural Administrative Department under the State Council, reconsider the project's representative successors.
    17th article of the provisional measures shall be formulated by the Administrative Department of culture is responsible for the interpretation.
                          18th article this since in the interim measures take effect on June 14, 2008.