China News Service, Beijing, October 26. The role of space technology in the protection of world heritage is increasingly recognized internationally.

On the 24th, Academician Guo Huadong, Director of the UNESCO International Center for Natural and Cultural Heritage Space Technology (HIST), and Dr. Webber Ndoro, Director General of the International Research Center for the Protection and Restoration of Cultural Properties (ICCROM) signed an online agreement on Spatial Information Technology Helping the Protection of World Cultural Heritage. Memorandum of Cooperation.

Academician Guo Huadong, Director of HIST, and Dr. Webber Ndoro, Director General of ICCROM, signed a memorandum of cooperation

　　According to the agreement, the two parties will form a long-term strategic partnership in the field of world cultural heritage protection.

In the next five years, the two sides will give full play to their respective professional and technical advantages to carry out all-round cooperation in the monitoring and evaluation of world cultural heritage, research and consultation, capacity building, expert exchanges, and information sharing, so as to promote the protection of global world cultural heritage.

　　This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the World Heritage Convention.

Guo Huadong said at the meeting that HIST and ICCROM will deepen cooperation and jointly take a series of conservation actions to provide global public goods and services for UNESCO and ICCROM member states, and help the World Heritage Convention and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. implementation.

　　Webber Ndoro also believes that space technology has great potential in promoting the protection, management and sustainable development of the world's cultural and natural heritage.

Through this signing, ICCROM will establish a very solid partnership with HIST.

This collaboration will help enhance the capabilities of numerous heritage professionals and institutions around the world.

　　More than 10 representatives including HIST Deputy Director Wang Xinyuan and Chen Fulong, Valerie Magar, Director of the Project Department of ICCROM, Joseph King, Senior Director of the Office of the Director General, and Rohit Jigyasu, Project Director also attended the event.

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　　HIST is the only world heritage research center based on space technology established by UNESCO in July 2011. It is built on the basis of the Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Provide space technical support in the protection and management of World Heritages, World Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks to promote their sustainable development.

HIST has become an important force to deeply participate in the global governance of UNESCO-listed heritage using space technology.

　　ICCROM is an intergovernmental organization founded by UNESCO in 1956 and established in Rome, Italy in 1959, dedicated to serving Member States and promoting the protection of all forms of cultural heritage in all regions of the world.

The organization has a total of 138 member states and has high international influence and discourse power in the field of cultural property.

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