Chinanews, Beijing, March 2 (Li Xiaohu and Gao Lei) Starting this month, the "Regulations on the Protection of Beijing's Historical and Cultural Cities) have been formally implemented.
Qin Hongling, director of the Research Center for the Protection of Ancient Capitals of Beijing University of Architecture and Architecture, who participated in the formulation of the regulations throughout the process, believes that the protection of historical and cultural cities must not be museum-style, "cold-style" protection.
The city is a living organism, and the best protection is to find a reasonable mode of utilization, so that it can be "preserved" only by "using it".
Advocate the establishment of a comprehensive Beijing historical and cultural heritage protection list system
The new version of the "Regulations on the Protection of Beijing's Historical and Cultural Cities" was passed unanimously at the Fourth Session of the 15th National People's Congress of Beijing, and will come into force on March 1, 2021.
The regulations are composed of 7 chapters and 77 articles and are a re-enactment of the 2005 version of the regulations.
There is a clearer answer to the “what to protect”, “who will protect”, “how to protect” and “how to use” to protect Beijing’s historical and cultural city. Among them, the concept of “global protection” and the newly added “protection and utilization” chapters This is the highlight of the new regulations.
"To build a comprehensive protection mechanism for Beijing's historical and cultural city, source protection is the initial and critical link." Qin Hongling focused on transforming research results into feasible suggestions for government decision-making services, and participated in the formulation of new regulations throughout the process.
Since 2017, Qin Hongling has undertaken the key project of the Beijing Social Science Fund "Research on the Reuse Model of Beijing Old City Architectural Heritage Resource Protection Based on Thematic Strategy".
At the same time, entrusted by the Urban Construction and Environmental Protection Committee of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress, the research team led the research team through field visits and investigations, historical data mining, oral interviews, and comparison of domestic and foreign cases and policies. After more than three years of research, rich research results and pertinence have been formed. Suggestions for countermeasures.
On this basis, she took advantage of the deputies to the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress and combined her research results to put forward 10 proposals for the People’s Congress.
Among them, in the proposal of the "Proposal for Constructing and Improving the Comprehensive Protection Mechanism of Beijing's Historic and Cultural City", it is pointed out that the comprehensive list management of Beijing's historical and cultural heritage should be completed as soon as possible within the city area, in-depth investigation, and the formation of a historical and cultural city that reflects Beijing It also proposes four specific suggestions to improve the long-term mechanism, formulate supporting protection and management methods, encourage active application and social recommendation of quasi-heritage registration projects, and coordinate the overall protection of different types of heritage.
This suggestion has been adopted. In the newly formulated "Regulations on the Protection of Historic and Cultural Cities in Beijing," Chapter 2 "Protection System", the third section is specifically designated as "Protection List", the recommendation and approval process and time for the census and the protection list Detailed regulations were made.
Historical and cultural cities cannot be "frozen" protected, they must be "lived"
"One of the outstanding issues facing cultural relics and historical buildings is how to use them, especially how to make them sustainable." Qin Hongling said that the protection of historical and cultural cities must not be museum-style, "cold-style" protection.
A city is a living organism, with people, living, and various types of business.
The best protection is actually to find a reasonable mode of use, and to use it to protect it.
She believes that at present, the activation and utilization of cultural relics is mainly concentrated in cultural formats, and more formats can be explored to introduce, innovate and loosen; on the other hand, we should think about how to use them sustainably.
She mentioned that the protection of historical and cultural cities is the common responsibility of the whole society, which cannot be accomplished by the government alone, and social participation should be strengthened.
For cultural relics and historical buildings, they should be used as public welfare and openly as possible, but follow-up fund maintenance is also required. You can try the "adoption" system of historical buildings to attract capable companies to participate in the protection and use or purchase third-party services with diversification. Make use of social funds.
However, this model needs to clarify the rights and obligations of the enterprise and test the ability to "draw lines".
Call on all people to participate in the protection of historical and cultural cities
Compared with the 2005 "Regulations on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in Beijing", the new regulations have new highlights in the scope of protection and delineation of responsibilities. They clarify that the scope of Beijing's historical and cultural cities covers all administrative areas of Beijing. The combination of protection and key protection is also written in "Any unit or individual can declare and recommend protection objects to the local district people's government."
Qin Hongling said that the concept of protection of historical and cultural cities should not only be sealed in scholars' study rooms, but should be spread throughout the streets and alleys.
Only when these ideas become a social consensus, can the city's ancient context be truly preserved.
Apart from teaching and research, Qin Hongling is keen to popularize the culture of historical and cultural cities.
Offer expert lectures for teachers and students in colleges and universities, publish column articles in newspapers and magazines, introduce the cultural knowledge of the central axis to the public through the Internet, and preach knowledge of historical and cultural cities to young people in the Temple of Heaven...Qin Hongling hopes that everyone will participate in the protection of historical and cultural cities and realize the city Live in harmony with people.
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