非物质文化遗产是民族文化的精华、民族智慧的结晶。我国有56个民族，各民族在长期的历史发展进程中创造了丰富多彩的非物质文化遗产。
Intangible Cultural heritage is the essence of ethnic culture and wisdom. China has 56 ethnic groups, which have created an abundance of intangible cultural heritage in the long history of evolution.
改革开放以来，由于工业化和城市化的加速，人们的生产生活方式发生了重大变化，也使非物质文化遗产赖以生存的环境不同程度地遭到破坏。
Since the reform and opening-up, with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, people’s life style is also experiencing significant changes, the environment that intangible cultural heritage have long been surviving on is being destroyed.
作为一种鲜活的文化，非物质文化遗产是民众生活的重要组成部分，在当代仍然散发着独特的光彩和魅力，仍然是传承文化、推动社会发展的不竭动力，是文化创新的基础和源泉。
As a live culture, intangible cultural heritage has been a significant part of people’s life, which is still shining with unique attraction even now. It is still a drive to carry on our culture and push forward the social development, as well as the foundation and source for cultural innovation.
因此，抢救和保护那些处于濒危和生存困境中的非物质文化遗产，已成为时代赋予我们的非常紧迫的历史任务。
Therefore, it is a historical mission that the time has shouldered on us, to save and protect the disappearing cultural heritage.
文化生态保护区是以保护非物质文化遗产为核心、对历史积淀丰厚、存续状态良好、具有鲜明地域文化特色和价值的文化形态进行整体性保护，以促进经济社会全面协调可持续发展而划定的特定区域。
Focusing on protection of intangible cultural heritage, the cultural ecological preservation zone is a specially designated area for overall protection of cultural formations with profound history while sustained in a good condition, and with distinctive regional features and value, so as to promote the sustainable economic and social development in an all-around way.