ABOUT XMIL

Xijiang Miao Institute of Leishan（XMIL）, located in the Xijiang Miao Village of Leishan, Guizhou, is a new type of cultural and intellectual institution, established in February 2016, consist of the Office, Miao Language Departmentt, Youth Department, Academic Department, and Creative Department. Its main tasks are: collect and research of Miao culture; inheritance and protection of local cultures, tourism study and Miao culture training.

The Institute has a group of consultants and research teams composed of wellknown scholars from Sun Yatsen University, Minzu University of China, Southwest Minzu University of China, Guilin University of Technology, Guizhou University, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guizhou Minzu University, Guizhou Education University, Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences, Guizhou Province Federation of Literature and Art etc, including ethnology, tourism studies, folklore, musicology, Miao medicine studies, economics, arts and other disciplines. By March 2018, the Institute had successively applied research results such as Xijiang Tour Guide Words, Miao Folk Song Selection, Langde Miao Village Tour Guide Words and has done a lot of Miao cultural training for villagers in Xijiang. At present, the scholars of the institute undertake many study projects, including Miao Ancient Songs, Xijiang Development Model of Ethnic Cultural Tourism, Studies on Miao Medicine, and Miao-Chinese-English Dictionary etc.

Guided by the spirit of 19thCPC National Congress and Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, based on the needs of the local and the the Rural Revitalization in China, the Institute will study hard on Miao culture and cultural tourism, through five or ten years of efforts, to build the Institute into the center of excavation, research of Miao culture in China.