Wooden movable type printing in Wenzhou

The craftsman Wang Chaohui demonstrates the wooden movable type printing technique in Ruian in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday, December 3, 2019. At the beginning of this century, it was discovered that wooden movable type printing was still being used by people in Ruian for compiling genealogies. In 2010, wooden movable type printing was inscribed on the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection by UNESCO. [Photo: China Plus/Huang Yue]