China News Service, Beijing, August 19th. The website of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage published the "Notice of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Implementing the Spirit of the National Cultural Relics Work Conference" on the 19th.
The notice stated that ensuring the safety of cultural relics should always be given top priority, strengthening source governance and whole-process supervision, focusing on preventing the three major risks of legal person violations, theft and excavation, and fire accidents, and improving the disaster prevention and mitigation system for cultural relics.
It is necessary to consolidate the main responsibility of the local government for the safety of cultural relics, promote the incorporation of cultural relic safety work into the government's annual assessment and evaluation system, ensure the safety of cultural relics, improve technical prevention and control capabilities, strengthen team building, and rectify major hidden dangers.
Strengthen the protection requirements of historical and cultural heritage in the national civilized city evaluation system, and implement the "one-vote veto system for the protection of historical and cultural heritage" for the creation of civilized cities.
It is worth noting that in the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Safety and Control of Cultural Relics" issued by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on May 5, 2022, it is clearly stated that by 2025, the safety of cultural relics will be included in the annual assessment and evaluation system of the provincial people's government. .
In the "Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Further Strengthening the Safety of Cultural Relics" issued in 2017, there is also a statement that "the safety of cultural relics will be included in the local government's annual assessment and evaluation system".
At a press conference in December 2021, Chen Peijun, director of the Inspection Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, introduced that by then, 26 provinces across the country had included cultural relic safety in the government's annual assessment and evaluation system, and refined the assessment indicators.
The full text of the notice is as follows:
Notice of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Implementing the Spirit of the National Cultural Relics Work Conference
All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government Party Committee Propaganda Department, Culture and Tourism Department (Bureau), Cultural Relics Bureau, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Party Committee Propaganda Department, Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Cultural Relics Bureau, Central Military Commission Political Work Department Propaganda Bureau, Central Propaganda and Cultural System every unit:
On July 22, 2022, the National Cultural Relics Work Conference was held in Beijing.
The meeting thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on cultural heritage protection and inheritance and cultural relics work, summarized the work, analyzed the situation, put forward the new era cultural relics work policy, studied and deployed the new era cultural relics work, which is of great significance in the development of cultural relics.
In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the National Cultural Relics Work Conference, the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows.
1. In-depth study and understanding of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on cultural heritage protection and inheritance and cultural relics work.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to the inheritance and promotion of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the protection and utilization of cultural heritage.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered important speeches and made important instructions on the work of cultural relics on many occasions, emphasizing the need to enhance historical awareness, strengthen cultural self-confidence, and strengthen the main responsibility of party committees and governments at all levels for cultural relics protection; Protect historical and cultural heritage like cherishing one's own life, insist on developing and protecting during development; emphasize the construction of archaeology with Chinese characteristics and Chinese style, and strengthen the effective protection of ancient ruins; emphasize making cultural relics and cultural heritage come alive, Strengthen the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics, coordinate the protection of cultural relics and economic and social development; emphasize the promotion of exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and expand the international influence of Chinese culture.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important expositions on the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and the work of cultural relics have profoundly answered a series of major questions related to the long-term development of cultural relics, deepened our party's understanding of the regularity of cultural relics work, and have great significance for doing well in cultural relics work in the new era. important guiding significance.
Relevant departments in all regions should organize and study the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, deeply understand the great significance of inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and deeply understand the principles, policies and specific requirements for doing a good job in cultural relics, further enhance the sense of responsibility and mission, and effectively integrate ideas and Actions are unified into the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, effectively implemented in the whole process and all aspects of cultural relics work, and transformed into work concepts, policies and regulations, and specific measures.
2. Conscientiously implement the new era cultural relics work policy.
It is necessary to deeply grasp the new situation, new tasks and new requirements of cultural relics work, focus on the goals and tasks of building a socialist cultural power, integrate cultural relics work into the overall deployment of economic and social development and major national strategies, and adhere to "protection first, strengthening management, mining value, and effective The new era of cultural relics work policy is to use and make cultural relics come alive", focus on strengthening the research and utilization of cultural relics protection, focus on deepening the understanding of Chinese civilization, focus on enhancing the influence of Chinese culture, and focus on solving the problem of unbalanced and insufficient protection and utilization of cultural relics.
The propaganda departments of party committees at all levels, culture and tourism departments, and cultural relics administrative departments should play a coordinating role to promote local party committees and governments to implement the main responsibility for cultural relics work, strengthen policy support, talent support, and financial support, and assign various job responsibilities and tasks to the task. Practically, to promote the new era of cultural relics to achieve new and greater development.
3. Comprehensively strengthen the protection and management of cultural relics.
It is necessary to strengthen the protection of cultural heritage systems, coordinate rescue protection and preventive protection, ontology protection and peripheral protection, single-point protection and cluster protection, and maintain the historical authenticity, style integrity, and cultural continuity of cultural relics resources.
Focus on strengthening the protection of the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Long March, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, as well as ancient buildings, ancient ruins, cave temples, and revolutionary cultural relics.
Effectively strengthen the protection and management of city and county-level cultural relics protection units and immovable cultural relics that have not been approved as cultural relics protection units, establish necessary working mechanisms, and improve the level of protection and restoration of movable cultural relics.
Efforts should be made to strengthen the overall protection of historical and cultural cities, historical and cultural towns and villages, historical and cultural blocks, and traditional villages, resolutely put an end to large-scale demolition and construction, demolition and construction of fakes, and actively adopt micro-renovation "embroidery" kung fu, focusing on civilization inheritance and cultural continuation , let the city leave memory, let people remember nostalgia.
Promote the census and screening of old buildings before urban renewal, and carry out the identification and publication of protection objects in a timely manner.
Strictly implement the pre-archaeological mechanism of "archaeology first, then transfer", and strengthen the original site protection of important ancient sites in urban and rural construction.
Focus on strengthening the rule of law in the field of cultural relics, improve the system of laws and regulations for the protection of cultural relics, implement the newly revised Regulations on the Management of Underwater Cultural Relics Protection, and encourage the formulation of local regulations on cultural relics protection; Build a large database, build and manage revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization areas, and improve the level of protection and management of world heritage.
Resolutely correct the behavior of excessive development and utilization of cultural relics, state-owned immovable cultural relics shall not be transferred, mortgaged, and shall not be operated as enterprise assets.
Strictly grasp the market access conditions for the circulation of cultural relics in accordance with the law, regulate the collection of cultural relics and the identification of cultural relics, and ensure the healthy and orderly development of the cultural relics market.
Fourth, continuously strengthen the long-term mechanism for the safety of cultural relics.
We must always put ensuring the safety of cultural relics in the first place, strengthen source management and whole-process supervision, focus on preventing the three major risks of legal person violations, theft and excavation, and fire accidents, and improve the disaster prevention and mitigation system for cultural relics.
It is necessary to consolidate the main responsibility of the local government for the safety of cultural relics, promote the incorporation of cultural relic safety work into the government's annual assessment and evaluation system, ensure the safety of cultural relics, improve technical prevention and control capabilities, strengthen team building, and rectify major hidden dangers.
It is necessary to strengthen the supervision responsibility of the department, strengthen the local cultural relics law enforcement force, maintain a high-pressure situation of cracking down on cultural relics crimes, strengthen the supervision of cultural relics administrative law enforcement, strictly rectify the violation of legal persons, and seriously hold accountable and accountable for major cultural relics violations and accidents.
It is necessary to strengthen supervision and discipline in the field of cultural relics protection, publish the list of immovable cultural relics in accordance with the law, strengthen the information disclosure of cultural relics administration, unblock the social supervision channels, standardize the reporting process, increase the intensity of public interest litigation of cultural relics, and increase the punishment for violations of laws and regulations. Transfer to judicial organs and disciplinary inspection and supervision organs in accordance with laws and regulations, and implement a life-long accountability system for cultural relics protection.
Strengthen the protection requirements of historical and cultural heritage in the national civilized city evaluation system, and implement the "one-vote veto system for the protection of historical and cultural heritage" for the creation of civilized cities.
Fifth, effectively improve the research and interpretation of cultural relics and scientific and technological innovation capabilities.
It is necessary to deepen the research on the history of civilization, continue to promote the project of exploring the origin of Chinese civilization, the research on "ancient civilization theory", continue to carry out the special research on Chinese cultural genes, and the major project of "archaeological China", in-depth exploration of the unknown, reveal the origin, and use more archaeological results to prove our country. Millions of years of human history, 10,000 years of cultural history, and more than 5,000 years of civilization history, promote the establishment of a disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system for the study of civilization with Chinese characteristics, and strive to build an archaeology with Chinese characteristics and Chinese style.
It is necessary to strengthen the interpretation of the value of cultural relics, do a good job in the research and interpretation of cultural relics, historic sites, sites, etc., and regularly publish the progress of major archaeological projects and archaeological discoveries.
It is necessary to continue to promote scientific and technological innovation of cultural relics, implement the "14th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Relics Protection and Scientific and Technological Innovation", increase investment in cultural relics science and technology, and strengthen the digital protection of cultural relics.
Make good use of platforms such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation, and the National Key R&D Program, and organize key technological breakthroughs in archaeological excavations, cultural relics preservation and repair, security protection, display and dissemination, etc.
6. Make efforts to make cultural relics come alive.
It is necessary to adhere to the principle of serving the past for the present, refine and display the spiritual symbols of the Chinese nation, constantly highlight the value of the times contained in cultural relics, and give full play to the role of cultural relics in providing public cultural services, meeting the needs of people's spiritual and cultural life, and cultivating socialist core values.
It is necessary to make rational use of cultural relic resources, actively create a world-class museum with Chinese characteristics, strive to improve the display service level of small and medium-sized museums, and launch more high-level and high-quality themed exhibitions.
Implement the Chinese cultural relics cloud construction project, promote the integration of cultural relics digital resources into the national education resource public service system, and develop new formats of cultural relics digital content such as cloud exhibitions and cloud education.
Improve the social participation mechanism, organize cultural and motto units, research institutions, and cultural and historical experts to share achievements and popularize knowledge.
Encourage and guide more social forces to participate in the protection, repair, and exhibition of cultural relics, and promote voluntary services for cultural heritage.
It is necessary to promote the integration of culture and tourism, build a number of world-class tourist attractions and a number of characteristic tourist destinations relying on cultural relics resources, and vigorously develop red tourism.
Strengthen the authorization management of cultural relic resources and the guidance of cultural and creative development, and create a group of well-loved cultural and creative brands.
7. Continue to deepen international exchanges and cooperation in cultural relics.
Promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, promote mutual understanding between Chinese and foreign peoples, and expand exchanges and cooperation in the field of cultural relics protection with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" and member countries of the Ancient Civilizations Forum.
Implement the Asian cultural heritage protection action, continue to carry out Sino-foreign joint archaeology, and promote foreign aid cultural relics protection and restoration cooperation projects.
It is necessary to implement policy documents such as the "Opinions on Bringing Cultural Relics to Life and Expanding the International Influence of Chinese Culture", implement the mutual learning and exhibition project of civilizations, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in exhibitions of Chinese and foreign cultural relics, innovate in the expression of civilization, create high-quality cultural relics, and build cultural relics. .
It is necessary to actively participate in global cultural governance, do a solid job in the declaration of world heritage, continue to promote the recovery and return of lost cultural relics, support relevant domestic institutions and overseas research institutions to jointly carry out research on the origin of civilization and other topics, and launch a batch of original results.
8. Vigorously promote the construction of cultural relic institutions and teams.
It is necessary to implement the relevant requirements of the Central Office on strengthening the protection of cultural relics and the establishment of archaeological institutions, promote the establishment of positions in cultural relics protection and archaeological institutions, and the construction of grass-roots cultural relic institutions as soon as possible, maintain the stability of cultural relics institutions and teams, and improve personnel training and selection. , incentives, evaluation and other mechanisms.
Encourage famous historical and cultural cities to set up administrative agencies specially responsible for cultural relics, and undertake the management of immovable cultural relics, famous historical and cultural cities, archaeological excavations, and museums.
Care should be taken to care for cultural relic workers, and actively provide support in terms of human, material and financial resources. For cultural relic workers who have been sticking to their front-line positions for a long time, silently dedicating themselves, and choosing one thing for the rest of their lives, they should pay attention to scientific research funding, publication of results, education and training, and professional title evaluation and employment. , life treatment, honors and rewards, etc., and do everything possible to cultivate talents, make good use of talents, and retain talents.
Select the advanced models of the cultural relics front, carry forward the "Mogao Spirit", encourage more cultural relics workers to "write papers on the land of the motherland", and strive to build a cultural relics work team with strong political skills, proficient in business, dedication, truth-seeking and innovation.
9. Actively create a social atmosphere that attaches importance to cultural relics work.
It is necessary to coordinate news publicity and social publicity, coordinate online and offline, increase media dissemination, vigorously publicize the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on cultural heritage protection and inheritance and cultural relics work, vigorously publicize the spirit of the National Cultural Relics Work Conference, and widely publicize the scientific concept of cultural relics protection. , widely publicize the research results of cultural relics and archaeology, widely publicize the advanced and typical deeds in the field of cultural relics, create more value symbols and cultural boutiques that carry Chinese culture and Chinese spirit, educate and guide the cadres and the masses, especially the young people, to better understand and recognize the Chinese civilization, and strengthen the Chinese people. The ambition, backbone and confidence of the whole society have formed a strong atmosphere of guarding cultural treasures and watching Chinese civilization in the whole society.
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Ministry of Culture and Tourism
State Administration of Cultural Heritage
August 18, 2022