Recently, the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the "Letter Regarding the Acceptance Results of the 2021 Supported Projects for the Documentation Work of National-Level Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Inheritors" (Intangible Cultural Heritage Letter No. 83 [2025]), officially announcing the acceptance results of the 2021 supported projects. The 12 documentation projects organized and implemented by the Gansu Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center were all submitted on schedule. Among them, three projects were rated "excellent," and nine were rated "qualified," achieving a 100% submission and qualification rate. The excellent rate reached 25%, ranking sixth nationwide.

For this round of assessment, a total of 258 projects were submitted nationwide, among which 46 were rated as "excellent," achieving an excellent rate of 18%. The 12 projects submitted by Gansu Province covered seven major categories, including traditional music, traditional dance, traditional theater, folk performing arts, traditional craftsmanship, traditional fine arts, and folk customs. Among them, the documentation outcomes of the following projects were rated as "excellent": the work on Jiao Bajabu, a national representative inheritor of Tibetan Thangka painting in Gannan; the work on Lu Suozhong, a national representative inheritor of Taoyan (Tao Inkstone) production techniques (both projects led by Liu Weihua); and the work on Naren Qiqi Ge, a national representative inheritor of Mongolian ethnic clothing (project led by Lu Yiwen).

In this documentation effort, Gansu Province collected and organized over 2.06 million words of oral transcripts, more than 22,000 images, approximately 815 hours of video footage, and around 277 hours of audio recordings. This has resulted in a series of outcomes including overview films, documentary films (featuring instructional sessions, project practices, and oral interviews), and working archives. As of the end of 2025, Gansu Province has completed documentation work for 48 national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, with 10 projects rated as "excellent." This demonstrates Gansu's solid achievements in the digital preservation of intangible cultural heritage and the documentation of inheritors.