The Yangtze River Delta has become one of the most dynamic areas of the cultural relics market.
In addition to economic factors, the activity of the domestic cultural relics market often has regional characteristics. According to the public data in December 2020, the transaction volume of the Yangtze River Delta region was 4116 pieces (sets), and the transaction volume was 1.193 billion yuan, ranking second. In addition to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, which ranks first all year round, it has surpassed the previously popular Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions and the Pearl River Delta region.
The more active the market, the new trading centers and powerful enterprises gradually increased. For example, among the 10 newly established art trading centers with significant trading volume, 4 art trading centers in the Yangtze River Delta region account for 4. More and more professional auction companies have been concerned, such as Zhejiang Jiuding Auction Co., Ltd., which is a comprehensive auction company based on cultural relics and artworks, and its main auction business is: calligraphy and painting, porcelain, jade, jadeite, jewelry, miscellaneous items, non-performing asset auctions, etc. It not only has a national cultural relics auction license and an auction business license, but also holds large-scale auctions in spring and autumn every year, as well as occasional boutique auctions.
The more active the market, the first problem facing the competent authorities is how to establish a more standardized trading market. Recently, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, the Cultural Relics Bureau of Jiangsu Province, the Cultural Relics Bureau of Zhejiang Province and the Cultural Relics Bureau of Anhui Province officially signed the "Framework Agreement on The Development Strategy of the Integration and Standardization of the Cultural Relics Market in the Yangtze River Delta", and jointly committed to establishing the country's first regional cultural relics market integration cooperation system and comprehensively promoting the development of the Cultural Relics Market in the Yangtze River Delta to a more standardized, deeper and wider field.
It is expected that by 2025, an open, active, orderly and honest cultural relics trading market environment will be basically formed, driving the prosperity of the entire Yangtze River Economic Belt and the cultural relics market in East China, and forming a regional cluster of high-quality development.
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One city and three provinces will jointly promote the prosperity of the cultural relics market from 6 aspects:
1. Establish a cooperation mechanism with consistent goals and coordinated actions.
Establish: institutional mechanism for integrated development in the field of cultural relics circulation in the Yangtze River Delta;
Realization: Mutual benefit of advantageous policies, cross-regional information release, unified cultural relics market entity database, expert resource sharing, and credit information sharing.
2. Establish an open and cooperative and vibrant cultural relics market.
Establishment: Organize cultural relics business entities in the Yangtze River Delta region to participate in the International Art Trade Month, China International Cultural Relics and Art Trade Expo, etc.;
Realization: Two auction seasons in spring and autumn every year, coordinated holding, unified publicity, staggered peak auction, interactive auction.
3. Establish a whole industry chain with diversified services and brands.
Establishment: Yangtze River Delta integrated cultural relics publicity and promotion, information release, display trading platform;
Realization: the establishment of professional supporting services such as cultural relics logistics, warehousing, insurance, and restoration.
4. Establish a convenient and efficient service system that is convenient and beneficial to the people.
Establish: open service platform for bonded storage and display transactions of cultural relics in the free trade zone;
Realization: Promote the public welfare display of overseas repatriated cultural relics, the public welfare appraisal of cultural relics in folk collections, and the special lectures on cultural relics collection appreciation
5. Establish a unified standard, standardized and transparent operating mechanism.
Establish: a supervision policy formulation and coordination mechanism for the administrative departments in charge of cultural relics in one city and three provinces;
Realization: Truly advance joint prevention and joint governance, bring about the interconnection and interoperability of credit information digital management platforms, and the co-construction and sharing of digital resources, forming information exchange, regulatory interaction, and complementary services.
6. Establish a business environment of integrity and standardization, high quality and safety.
Establish: an expert database in the field of cultural relics circulation in the Yangtze River Delta region; a creditworthiness system for cultural relics market entities and practitioners and a registration system for untrustworthiness;
Realization: Research and formulate joint talent training programs; form a regional market supervision mechanism and quality evaluation system with credit as the core.
In addition, the cultural relics bureaus in the Yangtze River Delta region will promote the establishment of the "Yangtze River Delta Cultural Relics Trading Integration and Standardization Development Alliance", comprehensively promote coordinated development in the form of "joint meetings" every year, and at the same time explore the construction of a statistical indicator system that reflects regional characteristics, establish an information exchange mechanism for the cultural relics market in the Yangtze River Delta, and release cultural relics trading development trends, market operation information, major activity information, market blacklists, etc.