On the morning of December 18, the Sanxingdui Site and Jinsha Ruins jointly declared the World Cultural Heritage Work Promotion Meeting was held in Guanghan, Sichuan.
Relevant leaders from the state, Sichuan Province, Deyang City, Guanghan City and other departments, as well as experts and scholars from the International Council on Monuments and Sites, unesco Asia-Pacific World Heritage Training and Research Center, China Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd., National Museum of China, Peking University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Sichuan University and 7 units attended the work promotion meeting. The meeting listened to a special report by the Sanxingdui Site Management Committee on the application for the Sanxingdui site. Experts attending the meeting generally believed that according to the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the Sanxingdui site at least meets the value standards of Articles I., II., III. and IV of the World Heritage Site.
After several generations of hard work and unremitting efforts of cultural relics and archaeologists, the appearance of the Sanxingdui site "ancient culture, ancient city, ancient country" is basically clear, the outstanding universal value has been recognized by the academic community, and the authenticity and integrity have been effectively protected. Wang Juzhong, deputy secretary of the Guanghan Municipal Party Committee and director of the Sanxingdui Site Management Committee, introduced the basic situation of the Sanxingdui site and the application process of the Sanxingdui site in the past 20 years, and analyzed the authenticity, integrity and outstanding universal value of the Sanxingdui site.
The artifacts unearthed at the Sanxingdui site represent a unique human artistic achievement and are masterpieces in human history. "The Sanxingdui site provides physical evidence for ancient religious beliefs, rituals and major historical events, the rich cultural relics of the Sanxingdui site provide empirical evidence for the ancient Shu civilization that has disappeared, and the ancient city of Sanxingdui ruins is an outstanding representative of the early cities in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, so we have advantages in applying for heritage." Wang Juzhong, deputy secretary of the Guanghan Municipal Party Committee and director of the Sanxingdui Ruins Management Committee, said.
The leaders and experts attending the meeting fully affirmed the preliminary application for the Sanxingdui site and studied the current situation facing the application for the Sanxingdui site. Relevant government departments at all levels in the province and city discussed how to link up and down, cohesiveness, and comprehensively promote the application process of sanxingdui ruins. The Sanxingdui Site Management Committee and the Jinsha Site Museum signed the "Cooperation Agreement on the Joint Application for Heritage between the Sanxingdui Site and the Jinsha Site" at the meeting, and the two sides will fully cooperate on heritage declaration and research, exhibition and publicity and promotion.
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Nominations for inscription on the World Heritage List must meet one or more of the following criteria in order to be approved.
I. Represent a unique artistic achievement, a creative masterpiece of genius;
II. Can have a significant impact on the development of architectural art, monument art, town planning or landscape design in a certain period of time or in a certain cultural area of the world;
(iii) to provide a unique, at least exceptional, testimony to a vanished civilization or cultural tradition;
IV. Can be used as an outstanding example of a building or complex or landscape to show one (or several) important stages in human history;
V. Can be used as an outstanding example of a traditional place of human habitation or place of use, representing a culture (or cultures) that become easily damaged, especially under the influence of irreversible changes;
VI. Direct or substantial connection with events of particular general significance or existing traditions or beliefs or literary or artistic works. (This paragraph may justify inscription on the World Heritage List only in certain exceptional circumstances or if the criterion works in conjunction with other criteria.) )