In October 2017, the center recorded a birch bark craft demonstrated by Fu Zhanxiang, a national-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage.

Sept. 9, 2010 : An earlier version of this article online incorrectly referred to beech trees, not birch, in its headline. The headline appeared correctly in print.

Archaeological studies have found that birch bark culture dates back more than 3,000 years, and is found mostly in China, Russia and Japan, and other countries with an abundance of birch forests.