China News Service, Beijing, August 18 (Reporter Xing Chong and Liang Xiaohui) Li Qun, Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism and Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, was entrusted by the State Council on the 18th to write the "State Council’s Work on Cultural Relics and Cultural Relics" to the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress. Report on the Implementation of the Protection Law.
He pointed out that the security situation of cultural relics is still severe, with legal persons breaking the law, theft and excavation, and fire accidents occurring from time to time.
Cultural relics work is an important part of cultural construction. In recent years, major policy documents have been issued intensively, providing further guarantee for the implementation of the Cultural Relics Protection Law.
In adherence to the principle of "protection first", the protection of cultural relics has been significantly improved.
The report pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have continuously clarified the heritage of cultural relics, completed the first national census of movable cultural relics, and deepened special surveys on the Great Wall and cave temples. The census has registered 766,700 immovable cultural relics across the country and 1.08 state-owned movable cultural relics. Billion sets.
The State Council announced the seventh and eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, with a total of 5,058 national protection units.
At the same time, the long-term safety mechanism for cultural relics has been gradually improved.
The public security organs detected 15,000 criminal cases of various cultural relics, arrested 14,000 criminal suspects, and recovered more than 100,000 cultural relics.
Courts at all levels accepted 3,996 public prosecution cases filed by procuratorial organs for obstructing the management of cultural relics, involving 11,871 criminal suspects.
In addition, the central government has invested an average of more than 1 billion yuan (unit: RMB) in cultural relics safety projects, and has supported the implementation of more than 3,500 safety protection projects for national security units.
Li Qun said that there are both opportunities and challenges for cultural relics work.
"Being benchmarked against the goal of building a socialist cultural power, benchmarking the implementation of new development concepts, and building a new development pattern, there are still many gaps and problems in cultural relics work."
The report mentioned that the security situation of cultural relics is still severe, with legal persons breaking the law, theft and excavation, and fire accidents occurring from time to time.
Some places have failed to properly handle the relationship between cultural relics protection, urban and rural construction, and tourism development. The main responsibility of cultural relics protection has not been fully implemented. The problems of large-scale demolition and construction of cultural relics, illegal construction, concealment and non-reporting, and excessive development are prominent.
In addition, there are loopholes in security management in some places, cases of theft, excavation, reselling and smuggling of cultural relics are frequent, and hidden safety hazards such as fires are not managed in place. Disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities need to be strengthened urgently.
Cultural relics protection and archaeology-related discipline systems are not sound enough, and archaeological research, interpretation and verification are urgently needed to be strengthened; cultural relics scientific and technological innovation is weak, the innovation system has not yet formed, and the cultural relics protection management and utilization system needs to be improved.
Li Qun said that the next step will be to further strengthen the legal protection of cultural relics, improve the legal system of cultural relics protection, promote the protection of the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Long March cultural relics, and the revolutionary cultural relics protection legislation, implement major cultural relics protection projects, and further build a cultural relics technology that integrates industry, research, research and application. The innovation system stimulates strong momentum for the development of cultural relics. (Finish)