The press conference on Chongqing archaeological achievements was held locally on the 29th. Zhong Bingbing, deputy director of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing, said that since 1997, the Three Gorges Cultural Relics Protection Project has carried out 994 archaeological excavation projects, with an excavation area of 142.740,000 square meters, 18 cultural relics unearthed.30,000 pieces. In the next few years, Chongqing will further strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics, provide rich exhibits for various museums in the Three Gorges reservoir area that will be completed, and launch a series of high-quality exhibitions.
The cultural relics unearthed by the Three Gorges Archaeological Survey refer to the cultural relics in the collection of various historical periods unearthed in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area of Chongqing, mainly the cultural relics unearthed through rescue archaeological excavations since the launch of the Three Gorges Cultural Relics Protection Project in 1997.
Zhong Bingbing said that since the “13th Five-Year Plan”, in terms of infrastructure construction, Chongqing has successively built the Three Gorges Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Base and other cultural relics protection infrastructure, which has provided important support for the restoration and protection of cultural relics unearthed in the Three Gorges and built a scientific and technological protection system for the Three Gorges cultural relics. Among them, the Three Gorges Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Base is an important part of the first national industrial base for cultural relics protection equipment, and is the main site for the follow-up protection and restoration of cultural relics unearthed in the Three Gorges, which will promote the comprehensive upgrading of cultural relics protection capabilities in the Three Gorges reservoir area and even southwest China.
In terms of preventive protection of cultural relics, the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing has established the Chongqing Regional Center for the Preventive Protection of Movable Cultural Relics to strengthen the coordination, research and guidance of preventive protection projects for cultural relics in Chongqing, and has successively carried out 11 preventive protection projects for cultural relics in its collection, and set up 9 cultural relics preservation environment monitoring systems in the Three Gorges reservoir area of Chongqing, so that the preservation environment of cultural relics excavated in the Three Gorges has been fundamentally improved through the transformation and upgrading of the cultural relics preservation environment; In terms of cultural relics restoration, since the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, a total of 13,182 cultural relics (sets) have been rescued and restored from the Three Gorges, with an average annual restoration of more than 2,300 cultural relics (sets).
Talking about the later work plan, Zhong Bingbing revealed that according to the “three-year restoration action plan for cultural relics excavated from the Three Gorges” proposed by Chongqing Municipality, the local plan is to use three years to complete 1.The rescue restoration of 20,000 cultural relics excavated from the Three Gorges has eliminated the danger of the cultural relics unearthed in the Three Gorges, strengthened research on the protection and utilization of cultural relics unearthed in the Three Gorges, carried scientific research through the entire process of cultural relics protection and restoration, strengthened research on cultural relics diseases, and launched high-quality exhibitions.
In January 2022, the “Protection and Restoration of Cultural Relics Unearthed in Chongqing Three Gorges Reservoir Area in 2022” project prepared by the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing was approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, involving 2,412 pieces (sets) of cultural relics unearthed in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, from 9 districts and counties in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area of Chongqing, the project is currently being implemented in full swing and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023.
Zhong Bingbing said that in the next few years, Chongqing will also strengthen the construction of the Chongqing Regional Center for the Preventive Protection of Movable Cultural Relics, continue to promote the preventive protection of cultural relics, further strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of the preservation environment of cultural relics unearthed by the Three Gorges Archaeology, and vigorously enhance and improve the preservation environment of cultural relics, so that these precious historical and cultural heritage can “prolong life”. (End)