Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】To provide a reference for the formulation,improvement and practice of intangible cultural heritage
policies of provincial government departments,to help build a cultural power【. Method/process】Using content analysis and quantitative analysis methods,based on the "tool-subject-target" three-dimensional analysis framework,276 selected intangible cultural heritage protection policy texts from 31 provinces were coded,and the time evolution of policy promulgation and statistics of promulgation de? partments were carried out,and single and multi-dimensional cross analysis of coding results【. Result/conclusion】Provincial intangible cultural heritage protection policies have experienced a development cycle of "sprout-growth-active". "The government has exerted too much effort and many parties are unable to participate".this distribution pattern of the diverse subjects of intangible cultural heri? tage protection has not changed,and corresponding optimization suggestions have been put forward.【Innovation/limitation】From the perspective of policy tools,this is the first systematic study of provincial intangible heritage protection policies; manual coding is partly subjective and may lead to a certain degree of error in results.