On the morning of November 16th, the International Cultural Forum on the Maritime Silk Road, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, was hosted by the Social and Cultural Department of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and hosted by the Cultural Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region, the chinese heritage Research Institute, the Office of the Cities Alliance for the Protection and Joint Declaration of the Maritime Silk Road and the China Association for the Protection of Monuments and Sites.
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Lazah Ilundu Asomo, Director of UNESCO World Heritage Center, and Ouyang Yu, Director of Social and Cultural Department of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. Guan Qiang, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, gave a keynote report entitled “World Cultural Heritage in China”, which reviewed and summarized the achievements made in the field of world cultural heritage declaration and protection management since China signed the World Heritage Convention in 1985, and looked forward to the recent world cultural heritage declaration including the Maritime Silk Road. Haji Imran Rosyadi, Regent of Jingliwen County, Indonesia, was invited to attend the opening ceremony online and delivered a speech.
More than 20 Chinese and foreign experts were invited to attend the forum and speak. Lily li, vice president of chinese heritage Research Institute, gave a speech entitled “China Maritime Silk Road System”, explaining the composition and value of China Haisi System, and taking the South China Sea exchange active area and Macau as examples, introduced the planning ideas of the maritime Silk Road cultural heritage protection. Ms. Susan Danielle, a senior expert of ICOMOS, gave a speech entitled “Introduction to the Study of Haisi’s Application for the World Heritage”, sharing the latest progress in the study of the ICOMOS Maritime Silk Road, discussing the time and space scope of the Maritime Silk Road, and putting forward suggestions for international cooperation needed for the next step of value research and application for the World Heritage. Jiang bo, a professor at Shandong University and vice chairman of the China Association for the Protection of Monuments and Sites, gave an introduction to the ancient maritime traffic between the East and the West discovered by underwater archaeology since the mid-20th century. Yang Bixing, head of cultural project of UNESCO representative office in China, gave a speech on “New Path of Capacity Building” and introduced the latest achievements of UNESCO in this field.