Recently, the Asian Cultural Heritage Youth Forum was brought to a successful close at Sun Yat-sen University. A total of 20 youth teams from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Tajikistan, Indonesia and other countries presented creative solutions to protect cultural heritage and address the threats posed by climate change.

At the forum, youth from Asian countries put forward coping strategies in terms of the impact of climate change on architecture, and shared their ideas on the value of intangible cultural heritages, human-land relations, and other issues.

Specific measures have been introduced as well. Technically, measures can be taken to prevent and deal with the whole process of climate change by strengthening dynamic monitoring, upgrading drainage systems and conducting digital restoration. To increase the sense of responsibility, efforts can be made to involve the community in heritage protection. Publicity and education should be enhanced to increase visitors' awareness of protection, according to the TCU International Team from the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-sen University.

The judges and experts in cultural heritage conservation positively appraised students' efforts in protecting and utilizing cultural relics and historic sites. An expert from Singapore commented that these proposals combined theory and practice, and has built a network of stakeholders such as government, tourists and enterprises.

"These students have attempted to unite all parties to contribute to the protection and utilization of cultural heritage, which is rare and commendable," the expert said.

In addition, Xu Honggang, Dean of the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-sen University and the university representatives from over 10 Asian countries expressed their expectation to cooperate in talent training for the protection and utilization of cultural heritage and discussed on the cooperation forms and details.

"We hope to jointly cultivate a group of cultural heritage protection talents with professional skills and modern management concepts through cooperation between universities," she added.

A preliminary consensus and a time schedule for future cooperation were established at the end.

The forum was jointly organized by the Asian Fund for Culture Heritage Conservation of China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation, UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Tourism in UNESCO Designated Sites, and Sun Yat-sen University.

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