The Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China was inaugurated
China News Service, Beijing, November 30 (Reporter Ying Ni) The Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China was officially inaugurated in Beijing on the 30th.
The center will focus on making new breakthroughs in a number of research topics that are critical to the development of the origin and development of Chinese civilization, such as the Xia culture and ancient population migration in the north and south.
The Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage was established on the basis of the former Underwater Cultural Heritage Protection Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
According to Tang Wei, director of the research center, the center will focus on the development of underwater archaeology, scientific and technological archaeology, border and foreign archaeology, archaeological resources and policy research, and will participate in major archaeology such as "Archaeological China" and "Comprehensive Research on the Origin and Early Development of Chinese Civilization". The special project has become an important supporting force in the field of Chinese archaeological research.
Actively carry out planning and research for the development of archaeology, improve the level of archaeological work planning, and jointly promote multi-disciplinary, cross-field and high-level archaeological research.
At the same time, keeping a close eye on the frontiers of discipline development, focusing on major historical issues such as the origin of humans, the origin of agriculture, the origin of civilization, and making full use of the concepts, methods and methods of scientific and technological archaeology, to more in-depth explore and explain the cultural significance and historical value of archaeological sites, focusing on New breakthroughs have been made in research topics such as the Xia culture and the ancient population migration in the north and south, which are key to empirical research on the origin and development of Chinese civilization.
Hu Heping, Minister of Culture and Tourism of China, and Liu Yuzhu, Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, encouraged the Archaeological Research Center to use archaeological and historical research results to tell the world about Chinese historical stories, and to enhance the international influence and voice of Chinese archaeology and Chinese cultural and cultural relics work. And jointly unveiled the research center.
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