What does Xi Jinping's handwritten instructions look like?
Presumably many people are curious about this.
Recently, Southeast TV broadcasted the feature film "Xi Jinping and Fujian Cultural and Natural Heritage", and many precious historical materials met with the audience for the first time through TV cameras.
The study group noticed that there was a written instruction by Xi Jinping in the feature film.
The full text of this instruction from more than 20 years ago is nearly 150 words, which affirms the practice of preparing an exhibition hall for the development of ancient ships in Quanzhou, Fujian.
Today's story starts with this instruction.
Xi Jinping's handwritten instructions (Source: Southeast TV)
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Ancient Chinese shipbuilding technology used to lead the world, forming a boat civilization unique to the Chinese nation.
In particular, Fujian Quanzhou, with its developed shipbuilding industry, became the "largest port in the East" during the Song and Yuan dynasties, and had maritime trade with nearly a hundred countries in the world.
After the founding of New China, academic circles have been calling for the establishment of a Chinese ship model museum.
The Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum (referred to as "Haijiaoguan") assumes this important task.
In the 1990s, the Haijiaoguan launched a large-scale scientific restoration project of ancient wooden sailboats, organized national experts, scholars and shipbuilders to restore all kinds of famous ancient ships in Chinese history.
After 8 years of hard work, Haijiaoguan has completed the duplication of as many as 156 ship types.
At that time, everyone was eager to build a large-scale ship model exhibition hall for these ancient ship replicas to display the results of their work.
However, due to lack of construction funds, the project has been delayed.
Wang Lianmao, the former curator of Haijiaoguan, recalled: “We finished the model of the ship, but we didn’t have the money to build the exhibition hall, so we wrote a report to Governor Xi at the time.”
In August 2000, when Xi Jinping, then governor of Fujian Province, learned of the situation, he immediately issued instructions: "Fujian is the ancient shipbuilding center of China, and Quanzhou is the starting point of China's ancient Maritime Silk Road. The Development History Exhibition Hall is suitable, distinctive, meaningful, and has foundations and basic conditions." At the end of the instruction, Xi Jinping urged: "Form a report as soon as possible and submit it to me for approval."
In order to implement Jinping's instructions, the relevant departments in Fujian quickly negotiated and settled the funds required for the construction of the museum.
Soon, the 3.2 million yuan required for the renovation and display of the exhibition hall was fully implemented.
In February 2001, the ship model exhibition hall officially started.
Two months later, Xi Jinping came to the Haijiaoguan for an inspection. He said: “Projects with characteristics and significance like this one should be strongly supported.”
Through the ship model exhibition hall, what Xi Jinping sees is the profound historical and cultural heritage of Quanzhou.
In November 2001, Xi Jinping presided over the governor's office meeting to study the "Maritime Silk Road: Quanzhou Historical Relics" application plan for the world cultural heritage.
In the following year, Xi Jinping went to Quanzhou again for research and asked to step up the work of applying for world cultural heritage.
After 20 years, Quanzhou was finally selected into the "World Heritage List" under the project name of "Quanzhou: China's World Ocean Trade Center in Song and Yuan Dynasties" and became the fifth World Heritage Site in Fujian Province.
In April 2001, Xi Jinping visited the Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum.
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In the late autumn of 1999, a group of people hurriedly walked into the home of archaeologist Jia Lanpo and took out 37 cultural relics.
After identification, Jia Lanpo Zheng rewritten the words "This site is very important and must be protected".
The "site" Jia Lanpo refers to is the Wanshou Rock in Sanming City, Fujian Province.
At the end of the last century, stone tools made by ancient humans and associated mammal fossils were unearthed at Wanshouyan, which brought the history of human activities in Fujian by hundreds of thousands of years.
However, because the rock contains ore necessary for steelmaking, Wanshouyan has long been bought by the Sanming Iron and Steel Plant.
This prehistoric site, known as "Southern Zhoukoudian", faces the threat of excavators and explosive kits.
On one side is the money-making smelting machine, on the other side are "several mammal fossils". When cultural relics protection and economic development are "closely connected", which one is more important?
There has been a dispute between "protection" and "bombing" in the local area.
On January 1, 2000, Xi Jinping, then acting governor of Fujian Province, gave an important instruction: Protecting historical cultural relics is a responsibility entrusted to everyone by national laws and an important part of the implementation of sustainable development strategies.
As a non-renewable precious cultural relic resource, Wanshouyan Paleolithic cave ruins belong not only to us, but also to future generations. No individual or unit can destroy the interests of the whole society and future generations for immediate or partial interests.
The final word is settled, the points are set to stop the contention.
Sanming Iron and Steel Plant stopped blasting mining and selected new mining sites in different places.
"It is impossible to make such a decision if we can abandon temporary economic interests and resolutely decide to support the protection of the site without amazing wisdom and long-term strategic vision." A person who once called for the protection of Wanshouyan lamented.
The conflict between cultural relic protection and economic development, and the game between long-term interests and short-term interests, test the historical vision of the leaders.
On this issue, Xi Jinping always puts the protection of historical cultural relics first.
For example, in July 2003, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, went to the Liangzhu site in Hangzhou to inspect the site. When he learned that "six quarries in Deqing County, Huzhou City, which affected the safety of the site, were difficult to shut down", he arrived the next day Huzhou research.
Soon, all these 6 quarries were shut down.
For another example, in 2017, Xi Jinping gave an important instruction: The Grand Canal is a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors, and it is a mobile culture that must be protected, inherited, and used in a coordinated manner.
In order to protect the ecology of the Grand Canal, Yangzhou, Jiangsu has shut down a chemical plant that "can pay more than 200 million yuan in taxes each year".
When Xi Jinping wrote the preface for the book "Fuzhou Ancient Homes", he pointed out: "Developing the economy is an important responsibility of leaders. It is also an important responsibility of leaders to protect ancient buildings, traditional neighborhoods, cultural relics, and famous cities. Both are equally important."
From May 11 to 12, 2020, Xi Jinping inspected Shanxi.
This is the afternoon of May 11. Xi Jinping inspected the protection of historical and cultural heritage at Yungang Grottoes in Datong City.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Bin
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has made important instructions on the protection of cultural heritage on many occasions, and he is also very concerned about the protection of cultural relics when visiting local areas.
At the Xi’an Museum in Shaanxi, Xi Jinping emphasized that “the cultural relics that condense the traditional culture of the Chinese nation must be well protected and managed”; at the Chifeng Museum in Inner Mongolia, he requested “support and support for intangible cultural heritage such as "Gesar", Cultivate good inheritors"; at Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi, he pointed out that "historical and cultural heritage is a non-renewable and irreplaceable precious resource, and protection must always be given top priority"...
It is worth mentioning that in February 2014, when Xi Jinping visited the Capital Museum, he said: “I like visiting the museum very much, but I don’t have much time.” When he saw the accompanying photographers taking pictures at close range, he quickly stretched out his arms. , Humorously reminded: "Be careful not to touch (cultural relics), I will be responsible for smashing them." The general secretary's love for cultural relics is evident.
"Cultural relics carry splendid civilization, inherit historical culture, and maintain national spirit. It is a precious legacy left to us by our ancestors and a deep nourishment for strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. The protection of cultural relics is in the contemporary era and benefits the future." April 2016 In his important instructions on cultural relics work, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of protecting cultural relics and historic sites.
Indeed, cultural relics and historical sites are not only witnesses of history, but also the continuation of the blood of civilization. In 2014, Xi Jinping had a discussion with German Sinologists and Confucius Institute teachers and students in Berlin, saying: “As the president of the country, some old seniors told me that as the leader of China, what do you want to do? The civilization and culture of the year are lost, and it should be passed on in your hands."