China News Service, Beijing, October 19 (Reporter Ying Ni) The National Cultural Heritage Administration and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a press conference in Beijing on the 19th to introduce the "National Professional Skills Standards for Cultural Relics Restorers" (hereinafter referred to as "Standards"), etc. Related situation.

This "standard" is the first professional skill standard in the cultural relics industry.

  Gu Yucai, deputy secretary and deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said that the restoration of cultural relics has important historical significance and practical value for protecting precious cultural heritage and inheriting the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Cultural relics restorers are the personnel who directly take measures to deal with cultural relics. , Need to have high theoretical knowledge and strong practical operation skills, its ability and level directly affect the safety of cultural relics, and determine the quality and level of cultural relics protection and restoration projects.

"For a long time, the cultural relics restoration field lacked national vocational skill standards and it was difficult to evaluate the technical level of practitioners. In addition, it lacked scientific standard operating specifications, and the quality of cultural relics restoration was also difficult to guarantee. The cultural relics restoration talent team lags behind the development needs of the industry and has become an impact on the cultural relics business. The bottleneck of high-quality development."

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  He emphasized that the "Standard" released this time is the first professional skill standard in China's cultural relics industry, which will promote the opening of cultural relics restoration to the society and have a profound impact on the development of cultural relics.

The "Standard" is an important link in the establishment of China's cultural relics restoration talent evaluation system. It is for standardizing the professional management of cultural relics restoration engineers, promoting the scientific evaluation of vocational skills, opening up the professional development channels of high-skilled and professional technical talents, improving the quality of cultural relics restoration, and promoting the cause of cultural relics. High-quality development plays an important role.

  The "Standard" is formulated in accordance with the provisions of the "Technical Regulations for the Preparation of National Vocational Skills Standards (2018 Edition)", fully considering the characteristics and basic requirements of the cultural relics restorers, and following the principles of integrity, hierarchy, standardization, practicability, and operability. .

The "Standard" involves 13 occupational directions and 65 occupational levels. It mainly includes four parts: occupational profile, basic requirements, job content and weight table.

The "Standard" divides the profession into five levels, namely Level 5/Junior Worker, Level 4/Intermediate Worker, Level 3/Senior Worker, Level 2/Technician, and Level 1/Senior Technician.

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  The "Standard" stipulates the professional skills appraisal requirements for cultural relics restoration engineers, and sets requirements for the corresponding level skills appraisal evaluation, theoretical knowledge examination, skill assessment and comprehensive evaluation methods and methods of cultural relics restoration engineers; it puts forward the basic knowledge of professional ethics and professional codes. As well as general basic theoretical knowledge, safety knowledge, environmental knowledge and knowledge of relevant laws and regulations that should be mastered; the professional functions of different professional directions are straightened out, and the results or should be achieved in the work content of different levels of cultural relics restorers Knowledge points such as abilities, mastered technical theories, technical requirements, operating specifications, and safety specifications are subdivided; reasonably matching the theoretical knowledge and skill requirements weights of occupational functions corresponding to different occupation directions and different levels.

  At the same time, considering that the cultural relics industry has formulated vocational skills standards for the first time, the industry and society are bound to have deposited a large number of experienced and long-term cultural relics restoration personnel. The open application requirements for occupations or related occupations for 15 years, 20 years, 25 years (inclusive), and the scope of related occupations and related majors should be relaxed as much as possible to allow more capable personnel to engage in cultural relic restoration work.

  It is reported that the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will hold the 2021 National Cultural Relics Vocational Skills Competition in Qufu, Shandong from October 22nd to 23rd.

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