Hangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center was established with the authority of Hangzhou Editorial Board in 2008. It is a non-profitable cultural institution entitled with minister-level grant attached to the Department of Culture, Radio, Film, TV, Press and Publication of Hangzhou with an authorized size of six staff.
         The center has direct responsibility for drawing up, approving and carrying out plans for the protection of Intangible cultural heritage; for doing a census of Intangible cultural heritage as well as building up the data; for researching the ways of protection and doing the propaganda work.
         The center is equipped with the administrative units, project protection units, database management units, academic research units and propaganda units. Since its establishment, the center has been conscientiously implementing the guiding principles of Hangzhou Municipal Government Organization, carrying out the non-legacy census as well as the list-declaration, and the inheritor protection. It has made remarkable achievements coming to the top in Zhejiang Province.