This newspaper (Reporter Zou Yating) In order to promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, promote the integrated development of culture and tourism, strengthen the protection, research, inheritance and utilization of the world cultural heritage of the Palace Museum and the collection of cultural relics, and promote the high-quality development of museums, recently, the North Campus of the Palace Museum District project started in Beijing.

  The North Campus of the Palace Museum is a major cultural facility in the national "14th Five-Year Plan" and a key construction project of the central and state agencies in Beijing. It is also one of the sub-projects of the "Safe Palace Museum" project.

The project is located in Haidian District, Beijing, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a construction area of ​​more than 100,000 square meters. It is a modern museum integrating cultural relics display, restoration, preservation, cultural dissemination, and audience services.

  Hu Heping, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, pointed out at the mobilization meeting for the start of the project that the completion of the North Campus will help the retreat, restoration and protection of the ancient architectural space of the Forbidden City, and effectively alleviate the problems of scientific protection, display and utilization of large and precious cultural relics. It will provide new development space for the Palace Museum, provide more high-quality visiting services and cultural experience for the audience, and will also help the construction of Beijing's "Museum City" and a national cultural center, and drive local economic and social development.

  Wang Xudong, director of the Palace Museum, said that the Palace Museum will fully support the construction of the project, make solid plans for the overall development of the North Campus in the future, coordinate the relationship between the Palace Museum itself and the North Campus, truly and completely protect and responsibly inherit and carry forward The excellent traditional Chinese culture carried by the Forbidden City meets the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, enhances the dissemination and influence of Chinese civilization, and promotes exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.

  "People's Daily Overseas Edition" (Version 07, January 10, 2023)