The nearly 400-year-old bridge sign monument was sprayed, and two towns received procuratorial advice

  Sundries were piled on the stone steps, and the sign monument was sprayed... The Yongji Bridge, which was built during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, was destroyed for a time with a history of nearly 400 years.

  On October 15th, The Paper reporter learned from the People's Procuratorate of Pudong New Area, Shanghai that after the court cooperated with the cultural relics protection department to help environmental governance in the form of pre-litigation procuratorial recommendations, the bridge body and the surrounding ecological environment were restored in only one month.

  According to the procuratorate of the Pudong New Area, the court recently discovered that debris was piled on the stone steps of the Yongji Bridge, the sign monument was sprayed, the bridge body and the land near the sign monument were planted with crops, and household garbage and garbage were piled around. A lot of construction waste.

Yongji Bridge was built during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is a district-level cultural relics protection unit with a history of nearly 400 years.

The Yongji Bridge before the rectification The pictures in this article are all from the WeChat public account@浦东检察

  The procuratorial organ believes that the ecological environment around the cultural relics is poor and does not meet the environmental requirements of the district-level cultural relics protection unit, and the district-level cultural relics protection unit Yongji Bridge has not been fully and effectively protected.

  Since the north and south of Yongji Bridge belong to two towns, in April this year, the Pudong Procuratorate respectively proposed pre-litigation procuratorial recommendations to the two town governments where Yongji Bridge is located. The surrounding environment of Jiqiao will be rectified; at the same time, the promotion of cultural relic protection will be strengthened, similar problems in the area will be dealt with, and a long-term working mechanism will be established.

  After the two township governments received the procuratorial advice, they immediately took effective measures.

  Town A sent a cultural relic administrator to inspect the site and actively carry out cultural relic protection.

Clean up the debris piled on the cultural relics, remove the illegally sprayed advertisements on the sign monuments, clean the sign monuments, and set up notice boards; strengthen cultural relics protection publicity, strengthen the town, village, and point three-level cultural relics protection network and inspection mechanism , To ensure that the protection and management of cultural relics in the town are implemented, and cultural relics protection units and cultural relics protection points are reasonably developed and utilized.

Yongji Bridge after rectification

  Town B has studied the ecological environment improvement plan around Yongji Bridge, and implemented the town’s urban transport office and maintenance unit to carry out the improvement of the surrounding environment of the stone bridge and complete the garbage cleanup work.

The town has also established a system of special personnel responsible for cultural relics protection management, and conducts regular inspections on cultural relics protection.

  In addition, the two towns of A and B have strengthened communication and ties, and carried out joint cultural relic protection and environmental governance around cultural relics.

  In May 2020, the two towns responded in writing to complete the rectification work.

After a public interest litigation, the Pudong New Area Procuratorate "looked back" and verified the rectification on the spot. The Yongji Bridge itself and the surrounding ecological environment have been restored.

  In addition, in August 2020, the Pudong New Area Procuratorate and the District Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau signed the "Work Agreement on Establishing a Joint and Cooperative Mechanism for Cultural Relics Protection Public Interest Litigation (Trial)" to give full play to their respective functional advantages and establish a joint public interest litigation and cooperation mechanism Established a corresponding coordination mechanism in the transfer and judgment of public interest litigation clues, information sharing and communication, evaluation of cultural relics protection effects, and establishment of fire safety, etc., to work together to do a good job in cultural relics protection, and jointly guard the imprint of history.

  The Pudong New Area Procuratorate stated that, in practice, the court uses administrative public interest litigation to coordinate the protection of cultural relics and the surrounding environmental management of cultural relics. Based on the development of case work, it has formed a normalized cultural relics protection cooperation mechanism with the cultural relics protection department. , Innovate social governance methods, and strengthen the rule of law for cultural relics protection and environmental governance.

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The Paper, senior reporter Li Jing, intern Fei Xinyi