China News Agency, Beijing, October 12 (Reporter Ying Ni) The reporter learned from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China on the evening of the 12th that as of 19:00 on October 11, Shanxi cities reported that there were 1,783 cultural relics in the province that had roof leaks and walls to varying degrees. The body cracked and collapsed, the foundation collapsed, and other dangerous situations. 9 museum memorials (historical architecture museums) also experienced small-scale rain leaks, causing no casualties.
The retaining wall of the Land Temple on Dafu Street, a municipal cultural relics protection unit in Jincheng City, Shanxi, collapsed.
Photo courtesy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage
After preliminary assessment, the disaster-affected cultural relics include 176 national key cultural relics protection units, 143 provincial-level cultural relics protection units, 661 city and county-level cultural relics protection units, and 803 immovable cultural relics that have not been approved and declared as cultural relics protection units.
From the perspective of the degree of disaster impact, there are 89 severe (partial collapse or major structural risks), including 2 national insurance, 7 provincial insurance, and 30 municipal and county insurance; more serious (partial collapse or other structures Risk) There are 750 places, 84% of which are unrated immovable cultural relics under the city and county protection; 865 places with general damage (rain leakage, cracks, damage to the eaves, and falling components); 79 surrounding slopes, walls, etc. damage.
"Most of the many cultural relics in Shanxi are on the ground, which is part of the reason for the large area of cultural relics and the large number of cultural relics in the province, especially ancient buildings, which are mostly wooden structures. The main building materials are wood, bricks and tiles, especially some residential buildings Buildings such as ancestral halls and revolutionary sites are more susceptible to damage in long-term continuous rain.” Experts believe that “the loose plateau soil in Shanxi can easily collapse and leak when there is a lot of rain.”
According to the analysis of relevant experts, from the overall disaster situation of Shanxi cultural relics, nearly half of them are immovable cultural relics that have not been approved and announced as cultural relics protection units. Rain leakage, cracks, damage to the eaves, and falling components accounted for nearly half of the total.
The main dangers of national and provincial key cultural relics protection units are the small area of roof leakage and the surrounding slope protection rock mass and foundation landslides. The low-level and unrated cultural relics have relatively more dangers such as wall collapse and beam frame toppling; the museum memorial part Rain leaking areas are mostly public areas for supporting construction, and cultural relics warehouses, exhibition halls, etc. are not affected.
At present, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has sent a team of experts to investigate the impact of cultural relics on the spot, guide the relief work of cultural relics, urgently allocate funds for emergency rescue of cultural relics, and support Shanxi in carrying out emergency response, rescue and repair of cultural relics damaged by the disaster, so as to ensure that cultural relics receive emergency response immediately. protect.
The emergency repair work of cultural relics in Shanxi Province is being carried out in an orderly manner. All localities have strengthened their daily management and adopted measures such as covering and temporary support to eliminate dangerous situations in dangerous buildings.
After the danger of the Pingyao city wall, the Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau sent experts to the site to guide the risk elimination on October 5 and 7, respectively; to classify and protect the disaster-stricken cultural relics, and to do emergency rescue by applying for approval while constructing.
"We have also increased the monitoring of dangers, especially for rock masses, slope protections, rammed earth, city walls, etc., which are in danger, to prevent collapse and slippage, and to ensure the safety of surrounding people and cultural relics." The relevant person in charge of the Shanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Bureau introduced, Funds and projects are making corresponding adjustments and overall arrangements, as far as possible to combine dangerous buildings with buildings that have already been approved, and include the dangerous buildings into the scope of repair through the supplementary design of the plan.
At the same time, the donation channel of the "Civilization Watch Fund" of the Shanxi Youth Development Foundation is also open to the public, helping Shanxi to rescue and repair the disaster-stricken cultural relics.
On October 10, the Tencent Charity Foundation announced an initial donation of 50 million yuan, cooperating with the China Red Cross Foundation, China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation, Shanxi Red Cross and other institutions to help local governments in disaster relief, people’s livelihood protection, and cultural relics. Construction of rescue and post-disaster reconstruction work.
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