Regional Circulation Symbiosis: Study on the Sustainable Development of Regional Traditional Handicraft

Sustainability is a key development issue in the world today, and as countries strive to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, culture is becoming a valuable resource in many areas of our lives. Many countries choose to invest in culture because of its capacity for inclusion, conversation and innovation, and as a powerful force for connecting the past to the future, while cultural heritage not only preserves historical memory, but is also an important vehicle for continuing local cultural traditions and sustaining national spirits. Among them, traditional handicrafts, as one of the important cultural heritages, have carried the economic and cultural aspirations of the people for thousands of years. However, in recent times, along with the historical process of machine production gradually replacing traditional handicraft production and commodity economy replacing natural economy, more and more traditional handicrafts are gradually weakening or even disappearing, which is a great loss to the demand of human cultural diversity. Nowadays, culture and creative industries are one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world, culture plays a significant role in building a more cohesive, resilient and inclusive society, and the preservation and development of indigenous cultural resources has become an important way to revitalize the territory. Regional traditional handicrafts are not only an important cultural carrier but also an industrial resource with unlimited potential. Low energy consumption, intensive, decentralized and other industrial characteristics give it real significance as a production method in increasing employment, income generation and other economic aspects. For alleviating employment difficulties, providing economic growth channels, reconstructing cultural ecosystems, and maintaining social stability, regional traditional handicrafts have natural attribute advantages as a supplementary form of industrialized production. Therefore, this paper addresses three research questions: 1. How to inherit, educate, and develop local traditional handicraft? 2. How to revitalize/sustainable/diversify the economic development structure of the "local" area based on regional traditional handicraft? 3. How to preserve and diffuse the culture of regional traditional handicraft? By introducing the theory of "Regional Circular and Ecological Sphere", this study explores the ways in which different countries use regional resources for territorial revitalization. Taking China as an example, this study analyzes the internal ("professionalization/industrialization") and external ("scientific diffusion") changes of traditional handicrafts in different regions, and identifies the modern reconstruction strategies of their organizational types and operational systems. Taking " Ceramics" as the case of regional traditional handicraft, this study was conducted in Faenza, Italy and Yuzhou, China, to compare and contrast the traditional and innovative models of this industry in the framework of industrial reconstruction, so as to establish a universally applicable regional "Ceramics" symbiotic network with universal applicability to achieve circular, ecological, digital, sustainable territorial development and cultural revitalization. This study discusses the protection and inheritance of regional traditional handicrafts and industrial development from the perspectives of economy, culture and society, and provides a concrete implementation plan for regional prosperity, livelihood economy and cultural construction by applying the scientific theory of "symbiosis", so as to provide a practical way for territorial revitalization. Also, the purpose of this study is not only to protect cultural heritage, but also to intervene in the modern life through regional traditional handicraft, to provide new economic opportunities for the residents, to solve the social and economic problems, as well as to reconstruct the national culture in people's daily life, and to provide space and opportunities for modern design to intervene in the prosperity of the territory.