According to CCTV News, on April 17, local time, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage successfully recovered 38 lost cultural relics and artworks from the United States. The repatriation ceremony was held at the Chinese Consulate General in New York, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Manhattan handed over 38 pieces of seized Chinese cultural relics and artworks to the Chinese government.
On April 17, at the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York, representatives of China and the United States attended the ceremony for the return and transfer of cultural relics and artworks lost in China. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Rui
On April 17, at the Chinese Consulate General in New York, the staff handed over the cultural relics and artworks lost in China. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Rui
China's lost cultural relics and artworks. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Rui
After preliminary identification, experts judged that most of the cultural relics were Tibetan Buddhist cultural relics in the mainland during the Ming and Qing dynasties, involving pagodas, Buddha statues, Buddhist ornaments and other categories, covering copper, clay, ivory, wood and other materials, rich in content, well-preserved, and with important historical, artistic and scientific value.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, China and the United States signed the first Sino-US intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on preventing Chinese cultural relics from illegally entering the United States on January 14, 2009, and its validity period was extended for the third time from January 14 this year.
Source: Beijing Daily