Tong Mingkang, former deputy director of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, died as deputy director | China | the CPC | cultural heritage | Cultural Heritage Bureau | the Great Wall | conservation | Tong Mingkang
The surging journalists learned from the National Cutural Heritage Administration that Tong Mingkang, an outstanding member of the CPC and former deputy director of the National Cutural Heritage Administration and a member of the Party Leadership Group, died at 15:26 on June 14, 2023 in Beijing at the age of 68.
According to public data, Tong Mingkang, male, Han nationality, was born in August 1955 in Chongqing, started working in January 1972, joined the CPC in April 1986, and graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree in archaeology.
Tong Mingkang was once the Deputy Director General of the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Ministry of Culture, the Director General of the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Ministry of Culture, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director General of the National Cutural Heritage Administration in December 2003, and stepped down in 2015. He also served as the Chairman of the China Association for the Protection of Historic Sites.
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Before his death, Tong Mingkang made efforts to promote China's World Heritage application and the protection of the Great Wall.
In 2006, China issued the Regulations on the Protection of the Great Wall on the basis of the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China. At that time, Tong Mingkang introduced to the media that this was the first special regulation issued by China on a single cultural heritage, which solved several legal issues faced by the protection of the Great Wall and made beneficial attempts to carry out legislative work on the protection of giant and linear cultural heritage.