In recent years, cultural departments at all levels in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have thoroughly implemented the spirit of supporting cultural construction in deeply poverty-stricken areas, supported the establishment of poverty alleviation and employment workshops of intangible cultural heritages, and revitalized traditional crafts in poverty-stricken areas, so as to promote cultural poverty alleviation in the field of intangible cultural heritages and facilitate targeted poverty alleviation.

Implementing training programs for inheritors of intangible cultural heritages

Since 2016, Tibet has held seven sessions of training on Thangka, sculpture and Tibetan opera through cooperating with the Arts Institute of Tibet University. In addition, Tibet has carried out popularizing training courses for inheritors, focusing on the labor force from poor families, so that the inheritors, especially the new generation inheritors in poor areas, can increase their knowledge, gradually become leading figures in their own field, and create intangible cultural heritage brands with characteristics.

Conducting productive protection on intangible cultural heritage projects

Tibet takes efforts to promote the integration of intangible cultural heritages into contemporary life. By taking advantage of festival platforms as well as holding exhibitions and competition activities, Tibet further promotes the inheritance of traditional arts and the development of derivative products, actively brings more poor people to participate in productive protection, expands employment and improves people's livelihood, and enhances the actual income of the poor.

Carrying out cultural poverty alleviation by relying on demonstration bases, enterprises and cooperatives

Tibet encourages building various intangible cultural heritage demonstration bases, enterprises and cooperatives to carry out poverty alleviation work. For those graduated impoverished students and disabled students in Tibet, free educational activities are carried out by the Tibet Sholdopal Vocational Skills Training School. At present, more than 90 students at the school are taught Thangka painting, metal forging, pottery making and weaving skills for free. Besides, the school provides about 28,000 yuan RMB to eachof them in every year for education and living expenses to ensure their healthy development. Meanwhile, a knitting cooperative in Shannan City's Naidong District actively hires poor farmers and disabled people in surrounding counties and districts, directly solving the employment of 226 people, with a per capita annual income of 43,000 yuan RMB.