The reporter learned from the press conference held by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in Beijing on the 2nd that the main city activity of this year’s Cultural and Natural Heritage Day will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on June 10th, and local cultural relics departments and cultural relics units will organize more than 7,200 daily online and offline activities of cultural and natural heritage.
Jin Ruiguo, director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said that the theme of this year’s Cultural and Natural Heritage Day is “Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization and Cultural Confidence and Self-improvement”, and the home city event will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on June 10. On the day of Heritage Day, typical representatives of cultural relics battlefields will be invited to tell the theme, and the theme forum of “Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization and Cultural Confidence and Self-improvement” and the third cultural relics science and technology innovation forum will be held, and the first batch of high-quality development cases of cultural relics, the list of Chinese cultural relics’ new media communication quality projects, and the fifth search for the most beautiful cultural relics’ safety guardians will be announced, and the pilot project of Dongpo cultural relics theme trail construction will be launched. The “Chinese Characters China: Exhibition of Chinese Civilization between Founder” jointly sponsored by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government will also be opened. In the same period, a series of supporting activities will be held, such as the online exhibition of “Danqing Memory Watching Home-chinese heritage Art Exhibition” and the National Youth Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exhibition Competition.
Cyndi Luo, director of the Science and Technology Education Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, introduced the third forum on cultural relics science and technology innovation. With the theme of “Cultural Relics Protection and Value Interpretation of Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievements and Applications”, the forum focused on the phased research achievements of the special task of “Cultural Heritage Protection and Utilization” of the national key R&D plan, and conducted academic reports, achievements display and poster exchanges from 13 aspects, including the research on the origin of Chinese civilization, the ancient people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and climate change, tomb murals, cave temples, metal cultural relics, paper cultural relics protection, AUV for deep-sea archaeology, and the protection and utilization of digital cultural heritage, so as to popularize the scientific and technological achievements of cultural relics.
Wang Yi, director of the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, said that Chengdu, Sichuan, as the host city, will launch the theme exhibition “China has three Sus-Meishan Sus’ feelings for home and country” and hold the opening ceremony of Qiongyao National Archaeological Site Park. On the day of Heritage Day, cultural and cultural institutions in Sichuan Province will also hold more than 500 activities with various forms and rich contents, such as cultural relics exhibition, museum research, cultural and cultural appraisal, lectures on cultural and cultural knowledge, classic reading and cultural performances, to present a cultural feast to the public.
In addition to the series of activities in the host city, under the advocacy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, local cultural relics departments and cultural relics units will organize more than 7,200 daily online and offline activities of cultural and natural heritage to show the characteristics of the cultural relics industry and enrich the cultural life of the people.
It is understood that since the State Council approved the establishment of “Cultural Heritage Day” in 2006 (adjusted to “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” in 2017), the national cultural relics system attaches great importance to it. On the annual Cultural and Natural Heritage Day,.During the period, we organized a variety of cultural relics exhibition and dissemination activities, thoroughly publicized and implemented the central government’s decision-making arrangements on cultural relics work, mobilized all sectors of society to participate in the protection and utilization of cultural relics, and actively created a strong atmosphere of protecting and cherishing cultural relics in the whole society. Reporter Ying Ni