Building an international cultural relics and artworks trading center is an important starting point for Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with world influence. Today, the unveiling ceremony of the Shanghai International Cultural Relics and Artworks Trading Center was held at the Pudong Art Museum. This means that from this year on October 26 to 28 every year, the China International Cultural Relics and Art Trade Fair will be held at the Pudong Art Museum, a landmark art institution in Shanghai, and the only official international cultural relics and artworks trading brand will be launched in China. Gong Zheng, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and mayor, and Li Qun, vice minister of culture and tourism and director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, jointly inaugurated the Shanghai International Cultural Relics and Art Trading Center. Zhu Zhisong, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Pudong New Area Party Committee, and Chen Tong, vice mayor, attended the ceremony. Shang Yuying, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Municipal Government, presided over the ceremony. Fang Shizhong, director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, released the main measures for the construction of the Shanghai International Cultural Relics and Artworks Trading Center in 2022.
In December 2021, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and other six ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Management of Cultural Relics in Private Collections and Promoting the Orderly Development of the Cultural Relics Market", which put forward important measures to open up the road to the active and orderly development of the cultural relics market from the aspects of top-level design and institutional innovation. The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Construction of Shanghai's Socialist International Cultural Metropolis also clearly states that "Shanghai will become an important international art trading center".
Shanghai as the country's economic center and the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, cultural relics and art market has a good heritage advantage, with the improvement of people's living standards and the growing cultural demand, cultural relics and art trading activities show an unprecedented active development trend, is the development foundation for Shanghai to promote the construction of an international cultural relics and art trading center.
With the in-depth advancement of the pilot comprehensive reform of social cultural relics management, a number of reform measures will integrate the system, exert force in the same direction, and resonate at the same frequency. Shanghai will rely on the Pudong New Area to build the institutional foundation, opening advantages, strategic position and resource endowments of the Socialist Modernization Leading Zone, and accelerate the construction of shanghai international cultural relics and artworks trading center. In 2022, Shanghai will focus on enhancing the global resource allocation capacity of the cultural relics and artworks market, and strive to achieve the "four new actions" with more open policies, better services and more active markets.
There are new achievements in strengthening systematic reform and forming a "Shanghai plan" of innovation and integration. Further amplify the superposition effect of The policy advantages of Pudong's modernization leading area and the pilot project of comprehensive reform of social cultural relics, boldly break through and boldly try in terms of the management system, promotion mechanism, and open path of the cultural relics and artworks market, and create a world-class cultural relics and artworks distribution center. The most important measure this year is to accelerate the legislative work in the field of cultural relics and artworks in the Pudong New Area regulations, focus on key and difficult points, and plan to move quickly. It is reported that the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress has included this legislation in the official legislative project of 2022. With the formulation of regulations, a "Shanghai plan" of reform and innovation integration will be formed.
This year, we will continue to do the only port for the duty-free sale of cultural relics and artworks, and the fifth CIIE will create a special area for cultural relics and artworks for the first time, attract more international top art institutions to participate in the exhibition, and use "art empowerment" to amplify the spillover effect of the Expo. At present, these two major cultural relics fairs have been included in the Shanghai International Art Trade Month held in November every year, and the whole city on both sides of the Pujiang River has linked up to establish the "Shanghai time" for global cultural relics and art transactions.
The Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism will further promote the digital transformation of cities in the field of cultural relics and artworks and the reform of "decentralization and management services", strengthen coordination and system integration, build the country's first provincial-level cultural relics market credit supervision platform, carry out full-process information management of cultural relics transactions, and set up a red, white and black list of cultural relics auction enterprises. Through high-performance digital governance, we will effectively control the bottom line and safety, create a good ecology in which all parties participate together and work in the same direction, and establish a "Shanghai model" of market standard management.
On the basis of the establishment of the Shanghai International Art Trading Center in Xuhui District, we will promote the establishment of a professional Shanghai International Cultural Relics and Artworks Trading Center in Pudong New Area, create a functional platform for the display, trading, service and management of cultural relics and artworks at home and abroad, and gradually build a "full-cycle" service and "all-factor" ecology of the cultural relics and artworks market, so as to stimulate market vitality to the greatest extent. At the same time, we will actively lay out new tracks, innovate working mechanisms, optimize service processes, and achieve rapid aggregation of brand resources, talent resources, and collector resources to create "Shanghai services" with the best business environment. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)