Xizang achieves integration of rural revitalization, cultural inheritance: report

BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has achieved an organic integration of rural revitalization and cultural inheritance, offering a model for ethnic regions and shaping a new paradigm of high-quality rural development, according to a report issued on Thursday.

Titled "Harmony Between Tradition and Modernity: Rural Development and Cultural Inheritance in China's Xizang," the report was jointly published by China Foundation for Human Rights Development and National High-Level Think Tank of Xinhua News Agency in both Chinese and English.

The report says that thanks to the diverse cultural resources, rural communities in Xizang have begun to integrate local intangible cultural heritage with modern technology, enabling the digitization of preservation techniques, while also encouraging wider participation from and acceptance by younger generations.

By tapping into the economic potential of local cultural assets and identifying key intersections between culture and the cultural creation industry, Xizang's villages have transformed cultural elements into productive factors, establishing a development model in which "culture leads and industry supports," achieving a win-win outcome for cultural and economic benefits, according to the report.

The report also notes that modernization is not just about economic progress, it is also about human development. Xizang's rural development path, rooted in cultural preservation, reflects a people-centered philosophy that prioritizes people's welfare, safeguards people's rights, and ensures that development is for the people, by the people, and shared among the people.

The report says that Xizang's rural development practice emphasizes comprehensive coordination: with economic development providing material support for cultural preservation and transmission, political construction fostering institutional conditions for cultural innovation, social development expanding participation in cultural dissemination, and ecological conservation consolidating the spatial foundation for cultural continuity.

Xizang's experience demonstrates that under the guidance of national policy, no one should be left behind in the pursuit of common prosperity, the report states. Enditem