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What do you mean by non-genetic inheritor?

Refers to people who are committed to inheriting and protecting China's intangible cultural heritage.

By learning and imparting skills, intangible cultural heritage will be passed on to future generations, so that it can continue to develop and inherit. Non-genetic inheritors bear the important responsibility of inheriting, protecting and developing intangible cultural heritage and play a key role in the process of inheriting traditional skills. A representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage refers to a person who is responsible for the inheritance of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage, is representative in a specific field and has great influence in a certain region, and is recognized by the competent departments of culture and tourism at all levels, including national, provincial, municipal and county-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage.