On May 20, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly held a meeting in Dazu, Chongqing, to promote the protection and utilization of key cave temples and the construction of archaeological specimen warehouses. Hu Bing, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Ou Xiaoli, Director of the Department of Social Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, responsible comrades of relevant departments (offices) of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and representatives of cultural relics and development and reform systems of some provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) attended the meeting.
The meeting aims to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and instructions on the protection and utilization of cave temples and archaeological work, implement the spirit of Vice Premier Sun Chunlan’s important speech at the 2020 National Symposium on the Protection and Archaeology of Cave Temples, coordinate the reserve and implementation of cultural protection and inheritance and utilization projects during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, and jointly discuss the protection and utilization of key cave temples and the construction of archaeological specimen warehouses. Ou Xiaoli made arrangements for the overall planning of cultural relics protection and archaeological work during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period.
In his concluding speech, Hu Bing fully affirmed the achievements made in the protection and utilization of cave temples and archaeological work in recent years, and put forward three requirements for the next step: first, improve the political position, attach great importance to the protection and utilization of cultural relics, and ensure that the important instructions and instructions of the central leadership are implemented and implemented; The second is to strengthen implementation, improve system construction, increase capital investment, simplify approval procedures, and orderly promote the protection and utilization of cave temples and archaeological work; The third is to improve the coordination mechanism, form a joint force, highlight the guiding and exemplary nature of project arrangements, and coordinate the implementation of the “14th Five-Year Plan” cultural relics protection facilities construction project.
Representatives of 12 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), including Chongqing, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, made exchange speeches in light of local realities, existing difficulties and the next step of work. (Propaganda)