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The ethnic minorities in the western region of China are widely distributed and have a large population, and have accumulated a large number of sports intangible cultural heritage with national characteristics.In order to protect the resources of intangible cultural heritage of sports in the western region and realize its sustainable inheritance, this study explored the protection of intangible cultural heritage of sports in the western region driven by information technology through the methods of literature review and interview.The research found that: information technology policy has created a good atmosphere for the transformation of intangible cultural heritage information to public behavior, information technology has realized the storage and management of massive intangible cultural heritage resources, and innovative information technology has realized the transformation of intangible cultural heritage information to the public.At the same time, the protection of information technology on the western sports intangible cultural heritage facing transmission distortion, the mass aesthetic fatigue, culture become a mere formality, lack of humanistic care, etc, so the future sports than genetic promise lasting sports intangible cultural heritage development plan, the reasonable injection “modernity” elements, fully predict sports non-material cultural heritage development trend and humanistic care is blended in among them.
Rui Du (2024) studied this question.