Xinjiang welcomed Student Festival of Kazakh Culture and Arts

BEIJING. January 7. KAZINFORM /Russlan Suleimenov/ The III Student Festival of Kazakh Culture and Arts "Aytys" opened in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
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It brought together well-known akyns (improvising poets and signers in Kazakh culture) of Kuytun city and students studying aytys arts (improvising in the form of a song-like recitative) at the Ili Teacher's Training Institute.  

In 2008 Kazakh aytys was included in the intangible heritage list of Xinjiang.

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