CCTV Beijing, December 12 (Voice of China reporter Guan Xin) According to the China Central Radio and Television Station's Voice of China's "News Vertical", the Voice of China (29th) exclusively reported that "there are many illegal buildings within the Xi'an Daming Palace Ruins Protection Area, and the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics made an administrative penalty of demolition in June last year is difficult to implement". After the report was broadcast, it attracted widespread attention from the society, and the local government also attached great importance to this matter.
On the afternoon of the 28th, the demolition of illegal buildings within the site protection area, including sales departments and stadiums, has begun. The Xi'an Qujiang New Area Management Committee said that all illegal buildings will be demolished within three to five days, the sales department will be restored to green space after demolition, and the sports venues will be open to the public free of charge after the stadium is demolished.
On the evening of the 28th, the sales department, located in the northeast corner of the Daming Palace National Heritage Park, was busy moving and loading. The reporter saw at the scene that there was a crane parked at the main entrance of the sales department, and a number of medium-sized trucks were also parked at the side door. The staff of the heritage park management and operation company that worked here packed up their office belongings and moved out of the area.
Reporter: Are you going to finish moving tonight?
Staff: Hmm! Anyway, I said I was going to finish moving!
On December 12, the illegal stadiums in the Daming Palace National Heritage Park were demolished overnight (Photo by Guan Xin, reporter of the Voice of China of the main station)
The reporter came to the stadium in the northwest area of the heritage park, where a large crane was removing the roof of the stadium, and a number of construction workers were dismantling the propaganda display board on the fence of the stadium. Tang Long, deputy director of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage, told the Voice of China that the projects had not been submitted to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for approval, and that they imposed administrative penalties in June last year.
He said: "The site of Daming Palace is a national key cultural relics protection unit, and its administrative examination and approval authority is in the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Through investigation and handling, we found that these projects did not fulfill the approval procedures to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in the early stage, in violation of the "Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China"; Administrative punishment is a very serious act, and the opinion we give is to demolish the illegal building, and this opinion is clear. It may be that individual staff members do not understand it very well, and the opinions of the government, including those of our bureau, are unified from beginning to end on this matter. ”
Tang Long said that after the report was broadcast, the main persons in charge of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Xi'an Qujiang New Area Management Committee had full communication again. "We are very resolute in our opinion, and we cannot have any hesitation in demolishing all the illegal buildings involved, because this is not only a world heritage site, but also a national key cultural protection unit. But in the process of demolition, how can we take into account the bearing capacity of all aspects and dismantle it in a scientific and orderly manner. On the afternoon of the 28th, the demolition of the sales department has begun, and then we will demolish the illegal construction involving the stadium. After we have studied and judged, what is the relationship between this stadium and the ruins, we now understand that the stadium is a public place open to the public for free, and play its function. ”
Specifically, the Daming Palace Ruins Protection and Transformation Office (hereinafter referred to as the Daming Palace Protection Office) is responsible for the relevant work of the Daming Palace Ruins Protection Area, which is subordinate to the Management Committee of Xi'an Qujiang New Area. Li Tiejun, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qujiang New Area Management Committee, said that after the report was broadcast, the demolition work was quickly started. "The Management Committee of the Party Working Committee held an emergency meeting, and also urged the Daming Palace Protection Office to act as soon as possible, draw inferences from one another, and make corrections to be effective. First of all, all these things that the Cultural Relics Bureau has a clear law enforcement letter are rectified in place. ”
On the evening of December 12, the illegal sales department within the Daming Palace Ruins Protection Area is being demolished (Photo by Guan Xin, reporter of the Voice of China of the main station)
Zang Bo, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Daming Palace Protection Office, said that the demolition work is expected to be completed within three to five days, and the sales department will be restored to green space after demolition, and the sports venue will be open to the public free of charge after the stadium is demolished. "Keep the bottom line, first ensure that the rectification is in place, and quickly form results. In addition, we must handle the relationship between the heritage park and the living needs of the citizens, tilt the high-quality services to the citizens as much as possible, and assume its functions of cultural relics protection and public welfare services. ”
Tang Long also said that in the process of exploring the practical path of "bringing cultural relics to life", all commercial operations must adhere to the bottom line and red line of cultural relics protection.
He believes that the core is still administration according to law. "From the perspective of the area of cultural relics protection, whether it is a cultural relics protection area or a construction control zone, or an environmental coordination area, in different regions, from the management of cultural relics, the so-called operation or operation, there are different requirements. Like these important sites, we have formulated a special plan, this plan is approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, through the provincial government announced, all business development activities are not impossible to do, must be carried out in a scientific and orderly manner under the guidance of the plan, where to do something, but the core is to protect the cultural relics well. On this basis, let's talk about the so-called development, utilization, and win-win issues, the core of which is scientific, orderly, and standardized. ”