In recent years, Shengsi County has adhered to the principles of protection first and systematic protection, guided by people sharing, integrated development, and innovation, promoting the integrated development of “cultural relics+”, continuously improving the cultural taste of the city, further strengthening cultural confidence, and effectively promoting the high-quality development of the county’s culture and tourism industry.
Normalized utilization of cultural relics protection and construction of a pattern of cultural relics protection work. Promote the protection and utilization of cultural relics, and conduct a thorough investigation, collection, sorting, and analysis of existing cultural relics, literature, archives, historical materials, and oral materials. At present, there are a total of 63 immovable cultural relics in Shengsi County, including 23 cultural relic protection units at all levels, including 1 national key cultural relic protection unit (3), 1 provincial-level cultural relic protection unit, and 19 municipal and county-level cultural relic protection units. There are 40 cultural relic protection units that have not yet been approved and announced. Among them, the Flower and Bird Lighthouse, a national key cultural relic protection unit, has been reported by the program team of CCTV’s “Journey to China” and “Taste”.
Activate the protection and utilization of cultural relics, and solve the problem of protecting cultural heritage. Establish a flexible and diversified protection and utilization mechanism. In recent years, through government funding and private voluntary fundraising, we have successively carried out repairs and protection for Yangshan Tianhou Palace, 13 cliff stone carvings in the county, Huangsha Fushou Palace, Wulong Yulei Cave, and 7 residential historical buildings. We have hired experts and specialized enterprises to inquire and diagnose the pulse, classified and protected the ancient cultural resources of fishing villages, and established public cultural service venues such as cultural halls.
The integration and utilization of cultural relics protection will stimulate the vitality of cultural tourism development. Actively exploring the combination of the activation and utilization of cultural relics resources with the development of tourism, as well as the construction of comprehensive tourism, rural tourism, and island parks, to create cultural and tourism IPs, and form a virtuous cycle of protection and development. In 2021, the Flower and Bird Lighthouse, a national key cultural relic protection unit, received a total of 53100 visitors. Relying on the revolutionary cultural relic “Red Mark”, we will open up four red tourism routes and build one research and learning base.
The digital utilization of cultural relics protection highlights the creativity of cultural and museum development. Implement a major improvement project for cultural, tourism, and sports public services. Based on the creation of a digital museum, the newly built Shengsi Museum aims to digitize the collected cultural relics into cultural and museum digital resources, and actively promote the activation and utilization of cultural relics. At the same time, free appreciation of museum treasures, exhibition of unearthed cultural relics from Huangjiatai, “cloud explanation”, “cloud classroom”, “cloud observation exhibition” and other service contents will be established, gradually establishing a resource sharing mechanism between museums, education departments, social organizations, and other resources, and effectively making cultural relics “live”.