1,000 ethnic villages to be upgraded (2)

The government will also ensure that more than 95 percent of school-age children will receive an education, and over 60 percent of the labor force will receive skills training.

The ethnic architecture in the villages will be protected and culture will be preserved.

The guideline acknowledged difficulties that may be faced in implementing the plan, such as the fact that most ethnic villages are located in relatively remote and impoverished areas, and ethnic cultures are being threatened by urbanization and industrialization. Some ethnic villages replace traditional architecture with simple and cheap modern buildings.

Oqar Bater, director of the publicity department of the Hoboksar Mongolian autonomous county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said the county government has prioritized the preservation and protection of the traditional cultural heritage of the Mongolian ethnic group since 2007.

In the county's Jangar village, where 97 percent of the population is ethnic Mongolian, a form of Mongolian storytelling and dance is still performed by villagers ― as it has been for five centuries.

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