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Building national eco-cultural protection areas and the **angxi practice in Hunan Province

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Since 2007, the Chinese government has initiated the building of national eco-cultural protection areas (NECPAs), thereby embarking on a significant transformation of the model of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) protection in China. To understand the origin and outputs of this policy, this paper demonstrates the context of China’s NECPAs. It proposes a conceptual NECPA framework that mainly features regional overall ICH protection. This is followed by an examination of the case of **angxi in Western Hunan as a pilot zone for China’s eco-cultural protection. **angxi has performed much related work to promote NECPAs and made great progress in regional overall ICH protection. This insight suggests that there are benefits and costs associated with promotion of China’s NECPAs and regional overall ICH protection. Despite the advantages of institutional innovation, the unexpected side effects actually undermine the success of plan implementation.

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  1. College of Resources and Environment Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China

    Chunla Liu, Li** Wu, Fanchao Zeng & Lipeng Jiao

  2. Key Laboratory of Geospatial Big Data Mining and Application, Hunan Province, Changsha, 410081, China

    Chunla Liu, Li** Wu, Fanchao Zeng & Lipeng Jiao

  3. College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004, China

    Mei Xu

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Foundation: The Construction Program for First-Class Disciplines of Hunan Province, No. 5010002; Education Department Research Project of Hunan Province, No. 20B362

Author: Liu Chunla, PhD and Associate Professor, specialized in ecological culture geography and regional development.

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Liu, C., Wu, L., Xu, M. et al. Building national eco-cultural protection areas and the **angxi practice in Hunan Province. J. Geogr. Sci. 30, 2076–2092 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-020-1828-2

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