Photo: The Establishment of the School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management of Shanghai University Source/Interviewee Courtesy of (the same below)
Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Wang Wei) The School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management of Shanghai University was established yesterday. The college was established on the basis of the Department of Library, Information and Archives of Shanghai University, the Archaeology Major of the Faculty of Letters, and the Institute of Basic Sciences of Cultural Heritage Protection, and has strong strength in talent training, discipline construction, faculty, scientific research, international cooperation, social services, etc., marking a new stage in the construction of cultural heritage and information management disciplines.
President Liu Changsheng announced the appointment of Mr. Shan Jixiang, former director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, former president of the Palace Museum and president of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, as honorary dean of the School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, Ding Huadong as the secretary of the party committee of the college, Huang Jizhong as the dean, and Jin Bo as the academic leader.
Cheng Danhong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai University, hopes that the College will keep an eye on the forefront of international disciplines, face the major strategic needs of national cultural heritage and information management, and focus on the development of digital archive resources, marine archaeology, silicate cultural relics protection, wisdom museums and other directions based on its own advantages and characteristics, and cultivate high-level composite interdisciplinary talents.
In order to help the development of the college, Huizhou Seaton Industrial Development Co., Ltd. and Shanghai entrepreneur Ms. Enron generously donated, Sidon Industry donated RMB 1 million and the market value of 1.01 million yuan museum professional lamps, and Ms. Enron donated RMB 1 million.
Photo: Shan Jixiang opened a lecture on "Chinese Context and Cultural Self-Confidence"
Shan Jixiang opened the "Dean's First Lesson" through video: "Chinese Context and Cultural Self-Confidence". He said that the library, information and archives disciplines, archaeology and museum disciplines of Shanghai University have developed rapidly in recent years, and have a profound research foundation, hoping that the School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management will be able to base itself on Shanghai, serve the whole country and face the world in the future, and make greater contributions to building a leading domestic, international first-class, and globally influential cultural heritage and information management discipline highland. In the form of storytelling, Dean Shan led everyone to understand the story behind the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, and awakened the "sleeping" heritage resources. Taking the rise of the world cultural heritage protection movement as the starting point, he elaborated on the process of China's declaration of world cultural heritage projects, shared anecdotes at the Dahe Civilization Tourism Forum, explained the significance of the protection, utilization and inheritance of cultural heritage, and the arduous task of telling the story of China.