From December 8 to 10, the national final of the Fifth China Chuangyi 
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition was held in Qingdao, and Caozhou 
Lacquerer - The Chinese Dream of Lacquer Art, a project from Yuncheng County, 
which is in Heze City, Shandong Province, won second prize in the Labor Brand 
Special Competition, according to Yuncheng County People's Government 
Information Office.

Lacquer art is a traditional Chinese handicraft with a history of more than 
8,000 years. It is a beautiful calling card of outstanding Chinese traditional 
culture. Lacquer decoration art has long been included in China's national 
intangible cultural heritage protection list.

Li Cheng, the project leader of the Caozhou Lacquerer - The Chinese Dream of 
Lacquer Art project, comes from a long line of master craftsmen in the 
intangible cultural heritage of Shandong lacquer decoration art. He founded the 
Shandong Lacquer Art Museum in Yuncheng, his hometown, integrating intangible 
cultural heritage techniques into modern life and developing hundreds of 
lacquer art products representative of Qilu culture and with Yuncheng 
characteristics.
     
Caozhou Lacquerer - The Chinese Dream of Lacquer Art utilizes a unique 
incubation process: extension of an improved variety of lacquer trees, income 
generation from cultivation on lacquer farms, lacquer art museum, intangible 
cultural heritage training center, culture and creative center, research and 
study base, and rural cultural tourism. 
      
This process serves to promote the development of the lacquer art industry. 
There have been around 50 sessions of lacquer restoration skills training 
classes in Xi'an, Heze and other places, training more than 600 apprentices 
across the country, and allowing migrant workers, college graduates, people 
with disabilities and other people to acquire some of these artisan skills. 
This, in turn, has resulted in some of the trainees starting their own 
businesses, and bringing 5,900 jobs to local areas.

Source: Yuncheng County People's Government Information Office

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   Caption: Peony Lacquer Vase made by Li Cheng