[New ideas lead a new journey] Strive to write a new chapter in the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage

News: June 8 is our country’s eighth Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the leadership and promotion of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, my country's cultural heritage protection and inheritance work has made remarkable achievements, continuing the historical context and writing contemporary chapters.

The Grand Canal of China, which has a total length of nearly 3,200 kilometers and was built more than 2,500 years ago, was listed on the World Cultural Heritage List in June 2014. Canal culture craze has arisen, and the unified renovation of residential buildings along the river has gradually begun. Ancient bridges and ancient squares have The original ecological style and modern atmosphere complement each other.

From the Liangzhu ruins that demonstrate the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years to the ancient Silk Road that witnesses cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the East and the West, from the largest existing cultural heritage in my country, the towering Great Wall that spans 40,000 miles, to the cultural treasures that can be viewed for thousands of years within an inch , historical and cultural heritage not only vividly tells the past, but also profoundly affects the present and the future.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has placed the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage in a prominent position in state governance, issued a series of important instructions on cultural heritage work, and put forward a series of new ideas, new perspectives, and new judgments. It has been emphasized many times that we must comprehensively strengthen and promote the "protection and utilization of cultural relics and the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage."

During an inspection of the Yungang Grottoes, a world cultural heritage, the General Secretary emphasized: "Historical and cultural heritage is a non-renewable and irreplaceable precious resource, and protection must always be given top priority."

When inspecting bridge pavilions and pontoons in the ancient city of Chaozhou, and overlooking the scenery on both sides of the Han River, the General Secretary emphasized: "We must cherish and protect this precious historical and cultural heritage. We must not engage in excessive repairs or over-development, and preserve the original historical appearance as much as possible."

When visiting the exhibition of historical cultural relics at the Hanzhong Municipal Museum in Shaanxi, the General Secretary pointed out: "Cultural relics carry splendid civilization, inherit history and culture, and maintain the national spirit. We must give full play to the important role of museums in protecting, inheriting, researching, and displaying human civilization, and protect China cultural context, and make cultural relics come alive to expand the influence of Chinese culture.”

Look up at the historical sky of Chinese civilization and refine the essence of the times of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit. The "Digital Central Axis", based on the three-dimensional real-life data of the core area of ​​the heritage, uses cutting-edge technology to meticulously restore the 7.8-kilometer core area of ​​Beijing's central axis, which was built in the 13th century; based on the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes cave murals and Buddhist scripture cave documents More than 6,500 high-definition digital resources were produced and synthesized and opened to the world for the first time; the Forbidden City has completed the digitization of more than 900,000 sets of cultural relics in the collection. Through the development of a digital twin management platform, a "joint innovation laboratory" has been built to explore the application of digital cultural relics in collection, research, and Utilize and disseminate integrated high-quality development paths.

The cultural relics hidden in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, the words written in ancient books, and the majestic and beautiful mountains and rivers jointly unfold a moving picture of prosperity and vitality in the new era.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the "Opinions on Implementing the Inheritance and Development Project of China's Excellent Traditional Culture" has been issued, which for the first time elaborates on the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture in the form of a central document; more than 10,000 major cultural relics protection projects have made significant progress; 62,000 Collections of precious cultural relics and unearthed cultural relics have been restored; 130,000 ancient book digital resources have been released online; and the fourth national cultural relics census has been launched in an all-round way.

In the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chengdu Universiade, and Hangzhou Asian Games, cultural relic elements connect the imprint of civilization, and "Chinese romance" attracts global attention. The number of museum visitors has grown exponentially, digital exhibitions are dazzling, and new cultural formats that integrate technology and art are showing vitality; cultural and museum programs such as "Ancient China" and "Why Civilization" are on the air. Our country's rich and profound cultural relics and cultural heritage have increasingly become a treasure trove of resources that provide public cultural services and meet the people's spiritual and cultural life needs, making Chinese culture more spectacular and Chinese civilization more dazzling.