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The Impact of Cultural and Creative Products Arising from Intangible Cultural Heritage on Economic Development: A Case Study of Ebian County, China
Received date: 2023-10-15
Accepted date: 2024-05-10
Online published: 2024-07-25
Supported by
Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department(21RKX0301)
With the promotion of the rural revitalization strategy, cultural and creative industries of tourism have gradually become an important driving force for rural revitalization. Since the economic level of minority areas is low and the concept of industrial development lags behind, developing the cultural and creative industries of tourism has a positive role in cultural revitalization and economic structure transformation. In recent years, Ebian Yi Autonomous County (Ebian County) has relied on rich intangible cultural heritage resources and achieved fruitful results in the development of cultural and creative products of rural tourism, adding vitality to its rural tourism and rural revitalization. Starting from the economy and the development of cultural and creative industries empowered by intangible cultural heritage (ICH), this study analyzed the impact of related cultural and creative products of Ebian County on its economic development in the five-year period from 2018 to 2022 by means of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Three main conclusions could be drawn. (1) The impact of intangible cultural heritage cultural and creative industries of Ebian County on the economy has been positive and expanding gradually with time. (2) The number of inheritors and workshops, and the business income of workshops are the three major factors affecting the development of cultural and creative industries. (3) Ebian already has a good foundation of cultural and creative industries of intangible cultural heritage, so the investment of funds and training of talents have played a major role in promoting the development of cultural and creative industries of intangible cultural heritage.
ZHANG Lei , WAN Jialing . The Impact of Cultural and Creative Products Arising from Intangible Cultural Heritage on Economic Development: A Case Study of Ebian County, China[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2024 , 15(4) : 1106 -1112 . DOI: 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2024.04.028
Table 1 Classification of intangible cultural heritage |
| No. | UNESCO (2003) | China (2011) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oral transmissions and expressions, including the language regarded as intangible cultural heritage | Traditional oral literature and the language in which it is transmitted |
| 2 | Performing arts | Traditional fine arts, calligraphy, music, dance, theatre, curiosities and acrobatics |
| 3 | Social practices, rituals and festivals | Traditional performing arts, medicine and calendars |
| 4 | Knowledge and practices relating to nature and the universe | Traditional rituals, festivals and other folklore |
| 5 | Traditional craft skills | Traditional sports and games |
Table 2 Evaluation index system for the economic impact of intangible cultural heritage creative industries |
| First-level Indicator | Second-level indicator | Third-level indicator | Description of indicator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factors of production (X1) | Public resources (Y1) | Number of intangible cultural heritage items (E1) | Number of intangible cultural heritage items above the county level |
| Human resources (Y2) | Workers (E2) | Workers of intangible cultural heritage industries | |
| Asset resources (Y3) | Cultural and creative units of intangible cultural heritage (E3) | Number of workshops of intangible cultural heritage | |
| Market demand (X2) | Cultural consumption (Y4) | Per capita consumption of cultural and creative industries of intangible cultural heritage (E4) | Per capita consumption expenditure on cultural and creative industries of intangible cultural heritage |
| Cultural creative capacity (X3) | |||
| Inheritors (Y6) | Persons awarded the title of inheritors of intangible cultural heritage (E6) | Persons awarded the title of inheritors of intangible cultural heritage above the county level | |
| Market expansion capacity (X4) | Industrial benefits (Y7) | Added value of cultural and creative industries of intangible cultural heritage (E7) | Added value of cultural and creative industries of intangible cultural heritage |
| Income of workshops of intangible cultural heritage (E8) | Income of workshops of intangible cultural heritage | ||
| External environment (X5) | Government support (Y8) | Financial support (E9) | Amount of financial support |
| Economic benefits (Y9) | Coefficient of investment efficiency (E10) | Benefit ratio of input and output investment |
Table 3 Weights of the economic impacts of the creative industry of intangible cultural heritage in different years |
| Indicator | Weights | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Average value | ||
| Factors of production (X1) | E1 | 0.0621 | 0.0634 | 0.0666 | 0.0674 | 0.0695 | 0.0658 |
| E2 | 0.1216 | 0.1231 | 0.1245 | 0.1256 | 0.1267 | 0.1243 | |
| E3 | 0.1118 | 0.1136 | 0.1169 | 0.1186 | 0.1211 | 0.1164 | |
| Market demand (X2) | E4 | 0.0245 | 0.0267 | 0.0283 | 0.0397 | 0.0318 | 0.0282 |
| Creative capacity (X3) | E5 | 0.0678 | 0.0692 | 0.0718 | 0.0704 | 0.0818 | 0.0722 |
| E6 | 0.1231 | 0.1241 | 0.1259 | 0.1267 | 0.1282 | 0.1256 | |
| Market expansion capacity (X4) | E7 | 0.1426 | 0.1447 | 0.1452 | 0.1461 | 0.1484 | 0.1454 |
| E8 | 0.2352 | 0.2361 | 0.2376 | 0.2384 | 0.2422 | 0.2379 | |
| External environment (X5) | E9 | 0.0151 | 0.0164 | 0.0171 | 0.0179 | 0.0185 | 0.0170 |
| E10 | 0.0527 | 0.0556 | 0.0574 | 0.0583 | 0.0620 | 0.0572 | |
Fig. 1 The economic impact of cultural and creative products of intangible cultural heritageNote: The comprehensive score for the impact of intangible cultural heritage creative products on the economy in 2017 was set to 1. |
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