This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the system of famous historical and cultural cities in China. The forum of “Inheritance and Innovation: 40th Anniversary of Tsinghua and Famous Cities” was held in Tsinghua University recently. Twenty-seven leaders and experts in the field of famous city protection gathered together to review the work course and achievements of China’s famous city protection system since its establishment 40 years ago, share the latest research results of famous cities, practical exploration of protection and utilization, and experience in protection management, and discuss ways to deal with future challenges.
In 1982, the State Council announced the first batch of national historical and cultural cities. Up to now, there are 140 national historical and cultural cities in China, 799 villages and towns have been announced as famous historical and cultural villages in China, and more than 6,800 villages have been listed in the list of traditional villages in China. In the process of rapid urbanization, the protection system of famous cities has protected a large number of precious heritages and played an important role in continuing the historical context, protecting cultural genes and shaping distinctive features.
Search up and down, do a good job in the protection of historical and cultural cities
Peng Gang, Vice President of Tsinghua University, said at the forum that since its establishment, many scholars and experts have devoted themselves to the protection of historical cities and historical and cultural heritage, and they have made great contributions to the protection of China’s historical and cultural cities and historical and cultural heritage in academic research, curriculum teaching and engineering practice, and have also delivered a large number of talents. The planning, design, scientific research and engineering practice institutions under Tsinghua University, represented by Tsinghua Tongheng, have carried out a lot of innovative and leading practical activities in the field of historical and cultural city protection in close cooperation with Industry-University-Research, a related department of Architecture, showing the elegance of “integration of knowledge and practice” in Tsinghua people. I hope that young scholars and students will devote themselves to the cause of historical and cultural cities and heritage protection.
Zhang Li, Dean of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, said: “Paying attention to historical and cultural protection and inheriting and protecting the endless roots of the Chinese national spirit” is the direction of efforts. We expect young students and all sectors of society to actively participate in historical and cultural protection and make unremitting progress in building a high-quality city and cultural environment.
Xin Yuan, president of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute, reviewed the achievements of famous city protection in the past 40 years. He said that it is the responsibility of contemporary people to deeply explore the cultural genes of Chinese civilization based on the idea of protecting famous cities, which is the foundation of inheritance and innovation. It is the responsibility of contemporary people to protect, make good use of and inherit those historical and cultural heritages that have stood for decades, hundreds of years and thousands of years, and will continue to explore on the road of protecting famous historical and cultural cities in the future.
Protect and develop, and inherit cultural heritage by system construction.
Yang Baojun, chief economist of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, pointed out that in the past 40 years, the protection system of famous cities has been improved day by day, the protection concept has kept pace with the times, the protection power has been constantly innovated, the protection objects have been continuously expanded, and the protection experience has become increasingly rich. In the process of development, there are ideological understanding deviations and content fragments that are protected..Science, unscientific protection methods, insufficient activation and utilization, and insufficient supervision and management. In the future work, we should improve our political stance, grasp the core tasks, focus on key tasks, establish a protection and inheritance system with scientific classification, strong protection and effective management, and write a new chapter in the protection and inheritance of urban and rural history and culture.
Zhang Bing, director of the Land and Space Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said that it is necessary to incorporate the management of cultural relics protection into the compilation and implementation of land and space planning, build a “one map” of land and space planning, establish a monitoring, evaluation and early warning system, delimit historical and cultural protection lines and incorporate them into the “one map”, strengthen the bottom line management of cultural heritage protection, study and introduce relevant land management policies, and promote the rational utilization of cultural heritage. He stressed that it is necessary to rely on the construction of the system and the modernization of space governance to solve the problem of cultural heritage protection and inheritance and truly move towards the future.
Deng Chao, deputy director of the Department of Cultural Relics and Monuments of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, stressed that the famous city is the region with the most intensive cultural relics resources, and the famous city system is the basic system of the legal system for cultural relics protection. The solution is how to resettle homesickness in the city and give it due respect through planning. He expounded the new progress in the protection and management of cultural relics in famous historical and cultural cities from the aspects of perfecting top-level design, insisting on value priority, strengthening overall protection, promoting activation and utilization, and implementing supervision and supervision, and said that he would continue to strengthen cooperation with Tsinghua University to jointly carry forward the historical context and spread more value symbols and cultural products bearing Chinese culture and China spirit.
Tell the story of China well and promote the inheritance of excellent culture and contemporary innovation.
Lu Zhou, the head of the Beijing Central Axis application text compilation team and the director of Tsinghua University National Heritage Center, said in the report that Beijing’s massive practice on the protection of historical and cultural cities in recent years has reflected the systematic characteristics of the construction of the urban and rural historical and cultural protection and inheritance system. Beijing’s central axis is an important practice to integrate historical and cultural resources, tell the story of China well and build an interpretation system of heritage value. He emphasized that urban and rural history? On the premise of completely protecting all kinds of cultural heritages, we should tell the story of China well through the integration of all historical and cultural resources within the administrative divisions under our jurisdiction, stimulate people’s cultural self-confidence, and promote excellent cultural inheritance and contemporary innovation.
Based on the overall situation of China’s famous historical and cultural cities and the arduous tasks faced, Professor Tsinghua University and Jason, a master of national engineering survey and design, systematically introduced the theoretical and practical exploration of the overall protection and inheritance of historical cities by Tsinghua team in the past 30 years, covering value evaluation, cultural landscape, pattern protection, spatial darning, and continuation of culture and vitality.
Bian Lanchun, a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, explained the sustainability of the protection of historical blocks in Beijing from three perspectives: the integrity of the protection of historical and cultural cities in Beijing, the analysis and thinking of the protection of historical and cultural blocks in the old city of Beijing, and the social sustainable revival of historical and cultural blocks..Continuing the social revival, this paper introduces the practical experience and comprehensive research results for many years.
Wu Tinghai, director of the Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, suggested that the concept of “famous city” should be extended to the scope of cities (counties) as the basic unit of overall planning for the protection of local cultural relics and cultural heritage.
Adhere to the bottom line model, form a system and ensure implementation.
Zhang Guanghan, deputy chief planner of China Urban Planning and Design Institute, and Zhong Ge, a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, respectively, combined with the practical work of Langzhong and Zhengzhou Mall site protection, called on the state to continue to increase investment, form a system, and ensure implementation, and put forward the concept of historical and cultural protection exhibition and inheritance based on the design perspective, arguing that the essence of heritage protection exhibition design is the excavation and strengthening of heritage historical attributes.
Lu Lin, vice president of Beijing Urban Planning and Design Institute, analyzed the particularity of Beijing’s famous city “prospering from the capital”, “the capital of the country” and “the integration of ancient capital and capital” from the perspective of capital, and put forward that the key to the protection of famous cities and the development of the capital should handle the relationship between the protection of famous cities and the function of the capital, the traditional style and modern construction, the protection of famous cities and the improvement of people’s livelihood, and promote synergy and mutual promotion.
Ni Feng, director of the Planning Department of the Core Area of the First Planning Commission Office, suggested that China should give full play to the advantages of public ownership as the main body, show the public nature of cultural heritage and take the road of chinese heritage protection. “Strengthening the integration of cultural heritage protection is a historical opportunity and a choice more suitable for China’s national conditions.”
Let the heritage come alive and explore the cultural and historical value of the city.
When talking about the challenges and future of famous cities, Liu Boying, director of the Industrial Heritage Department of China Historical and Cultural Cities Committee, pointed out that industrial heritage can promote the evolution and development of cities, and can be used as an important value feature of cities to declare historical and cultural cities. It is suggested that it should be included in the protection system of famous cities, formulate special protection plans, and sort out the relationship with other protection factors.
Chea Chang, director of the Cultural and Natural Resources Research Office of Tsinghua Tongheng Heritage Center, advocates the protection and management mode of combining “front-end general survey to find out the background of resources” with “back-end evaluation to realize closed-loop management” to help the protection of famous cities.
Zhang Ben, deputy chief planner of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute, advocates that historical areas, historical sites and industrial lots should be included in the protection field of vision; It is hoped that according to the classification census, it will be included in the classification, assume the responsibility of protection at different levels, and perform their duties, thus forming a more effective and perfect system and mechanism for urban and rural heritage protection and inheritance.
The activity was co-sponsored by the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University and Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute, with the support of Tsinghua University Architectural Design and Research Institute and Huaqing Andi Architectural Design. Xin Yuan, president of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute, and Jason, a national engineering survey and design master, pointed out in their concluding speeches from the perspective of “past, present and future” that urban culture and calendar should be explored..The value of historical heritage makes the heritage alive. “We should look at the world with naked eyes and think with our fresh brains, and we can always see new things.” (End)