China News Service, Beijing, May 23 (Ying Ni Li Jingze) In recent years, more and more cultural relics lost overseas have embarked on their return home. President of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, the sixth president of the Palace Museum, and a special researcher of the Central Museum of Culture and History Shan Jixiang recently said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China" that overseas Chinese and Chinese businessmen living abroad have made outstanding contributions to promoting the return of overseas cultural relics.

Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, the sixth president of the Palace Museum, and a special researcher of the Central Museum of Literature and History, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China".

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　　Shan Jixiang pointed out that for the cultural relics lost overseas due to theft and excavation, they do not approve of the use of state funds to purchase, but should be recourse through a series of related international regulations. In recent years, there have been many successful cases, including the Buddha head in the Longmen Grottoes. Of recourse.

But on the other hand, if it is not the cultural relics involved, we should also strive to promote their return to the motherland through various channels.

　　"It is the overseas Chinese and Chinese businessmen who have made outstanding contributions here. They see the cultural relics of the motherland appearing in foreign auction markets or in cultural relics marketing agencies, and they can rescue them through their own efforts and donate them to Our country's museums and cultural institutions, this is a very moving thing." Shan Jixiang said.

　　He took the "Silk Road Landscape Map", which was purchased by overseas Chinese businessman Xu Rongmao and donated to the Palace Museum free of charge, as an example, and pointed out that through the identification of the place names on the map, it can be known as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

"As early as that period, Chinese people already knew a lot about the countries along the Silk Road, so this green landscape "Map of the Silk Road Landscape" is very precious. We hope to keep it in the Palace Museum. But it needs 20 million U.S. dollars. , We can’t afford the money. When Mr. Xu Rongmao learned about it, he generously bought it back and donated it to the Palace Museum to make our collection more complete."

　　Shan Jixiang believes that the state should also provide strong support in terms of taxation policies and channels of entry, so that the cultural relics lost overseas can be returned to the country smoothly, and such behavior should be commended and promoted, so that more and more overseas Chinese and Chinese businessmen Participate in the protection of China's cultural heritage.

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