Qingdao in East China's Shandong province kicks off a grand ICH festival in the city's Chengyang district on July 11. [Photo/Dazhong News]

Qingdao in East China's Shandong province kicked off a grand intangible cultural heritage (ICH) festival in the city's Chengyang district on July 11.

The three-day event aimed to offer the public and tourists a cultural feast featuring a diverse array of ICH items, music, traditional art forms, and technology, fostering innovation and development in Qingdao's culture and tourism industries.

Qingdao is famous as the City of Music, while Chengyang district most embodies this title. Chengyang is rich in ICH items for its possession of 53 ICH inheritors and 108 representative ICH projects.