China News Service, Fuzhou, July 19 (Ying Ni Zheng Jiangluo) On the occasion of the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, sponsored by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Maritime Silk Road will be protected and jointly applied for the World Cultural Heritage Cities Alliance and China Cultural Heritage Research Jointly hosted by the Institute and co-organized by the China Association for the Protection of Historic Sites and Relics, a side event on the theme of "Protection and Research of Maritime Silk Road Heritage" was held in Fuzhou on the 18th.
Song Xinchao, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Jing Feng, Director of the Asia-Pacific Department of the World Heritage Center, and Teresa Patricio, Chairman of the International Council of Monuments and Sites attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
Song Xinchao, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, pointed out that the Maritime Silk Road is the witness and continuation of the interaction and coexistence of different human cultures.
In recent years, China has achieved a series of positive results in the protection, research, display and interpretation, and international exchanges of the Maritime Silk Road heritage.
He said that China will continue to strengthen international consultations and cooperation with UNESCO and other international organizations and countries along the Maritime Silk Road to jointly protect the Maritime Silk Road, carry out thematic research, discuss cross-border joint heritage application strategies, and jointly protect the whole mankind. The precious historical and cultural wealth of China is well protected, inherited, and utilized.
Jing Feng, director of the Asia-Pacific Department of the World Heritage Center, reviewed the "Road of Dialogue: A Holistic Study of the Silk Road" project carried out by UNESCO and the series of Silk Road applications that took this opportunity to promote.
This is the result of decades of coordination and joint protection, setting a viable precedent.
He quoted Mandela's famous saying "Before things are successful, everything seems impossible" and encouraged countries to continue to carry out exchanges and cooperation under the framework of the Silk Road.
He also introduced the Chinese version of the new Silk Road special issue of the "World Heritage" magazine.
Theresa, President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites.
Patricio said that the application for the Maritime Silk Road requires a temporal and spatial framework, dialogue, respect, and understanding need to be strengthened, an overall strategy should be established, the contribution of each heritage site to the outstanding universal value and the relationship between each other should be defined, and the heritage should be studied. The relationship between points in the process of change, etc.
She pointed out that today’s meeting has taken a very important first step. In the future, the research on the Maritime Silk Framework should be further strengthened. The International Council of Monuments and Sites is willing to provide technical support and capacity building assistance for this, so as to build more inclusiveness. And the sustainable "World Heritage Convention."
Chai Xiaoming, Dean of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, stated in his speech that, as the main professional support institution for the protection of Chinese historical sites on the Maritime Silk Road, the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, under the guidance of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, will persevere in serving and contacting provinces, cities, and cities. Heritage sites provide professional technical support for the protection and research of the Maritime Silk Road, tell Chinese stories well, and make positive contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Professor Tim Williams of University College London, with the title of "Characteristics of Maritime Silk Road and Priority Work of Heritage Protection", introduced the temporal and spatial framework, route characteristics, heritage types and values of the Maritime Silk Road.
Liu Xiaoming, chief engineer of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, introduced the achievements of the Maritime Silk City Alliance with Guangzhou as the lead city with the title of "Inheriting Maritime Silk Culture and Promoting Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning", and introduced China Maritime Silk Research on the historical sites of the road.
With the title of "Marine Heritage Foreign Policy: The History of Connectivity", Professor Tim Winter of the University of Western Australia discussed the role of the Maritime Silk Road in the connection and circulation of major cultural systems from the perspective of maritime heritage.
Subsequently, international experts from South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, India and other international experts had a dialogue on the protection and research of the Maritime Silk Road.
This side event is an important international academic exchange activity in the field of protection and research on the Maritime Silk Road.
The protection and research of the Maritime Silk Road is not only China's mission, but also a common cause of countries along the Maritime Silk Road.
Under the UNESCO "Silk Road" heritage framework system, China will work together with all countries to carry out joint work under the international multilateral framework to promote the protection of the maritime silk heritage and build a rich and colorful cultural heritage exchange and cooperation system.
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