The Yunnan government started implementing a law of intangible cultural heritages on June 1 to protect its intangible cultural heritages. The law will promote the standardization and legalization process in safeguarding the local cultural relics.
Recently, the Yunnan government held a meeting in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur to boost its tourism industry. An agreement had reached with Kuala Lumpur to develop cross border tourist routes and boost mutual tourist product sales.
An international academic conference focusing on relations between tradition and modernity was held from March 13-18 in Macerata, a city in Italy. Famous professors and scholars from China, Italy and the US attended the meeting, and discussed deeply in philosophy, literature, art and politics.
Yunnan's cultural trade center went into business in Singapore on April 6, marking a key step forward in the city's "going global" strategy. It was jointly financed by Yunnan Xinhua Bookstore Group and a Singapore-based company.
In the late of May, Yunnan Provincial Museum signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Vietnam History Museum by Ma Wendou, the leader of Yunnan Provincial Museum Ma Wendou, curator of the Yunnan Provincial Museum, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on May 22 with the Vietnam History Museum during his visit to Vietnam.
