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Return of lost relics a must
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China's relics that have been pilfered overseas through immoral,
unrighteous or even illegal means in past centuries should be
returned to their places of origin either via legal or diplomatic
means in light of international conventions, according to a statement
made by a group of leading Chinese experts on cultural relics.
The statement, issued in an open letter earlier this month, is a
response to the joint declaration by 18 world-renowned museums and
institutions, including the Brit...
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Reclaiming cultural relics from overseas
China Daily
; Cultural relic experts and NGOs have set the wheels in motion to begin reclaiming China's national treasures from abroad, said an article in Beijing Review. The following are excerpts from the article: On April 11, the China Cultural Relics Recovery Programme, funded by the China Foundation for the
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Return of lost relics a must
China Daily
; China's relics that have been pilfered overseas through immoral, unrighteous or even illegal means in past centuries should be returned to their places of origin either via legal or diplomatic means in light of international conventions, according to a statement made by a group of leading Chinese
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Stop profiting at cost of cultural relics
China Daily
; Local governments should not acquire economic profits at the expense of impairing cultural relics, urged an article in Guangming Daily. Driven by instant gains, some local governments encourage cultural relics to be transferred to tourism companies for management and exploitation. This practice
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Lawmakers divide over opening of relics market
China Daily
; Senior national legislators yesterday fiercely debated whether China should cautiously open its cultural relics market to private collectors. Transactions of cultural relics have always been monopolized by the State. It bans people and organizations other than those approved by the cultural
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Nation to reclaim looted and stolen relics
China Daily
; Cultural relic experts and NGOs have set the wheels in motion to begin reclaiming China's national treasures from abroad. The China Cultural Relics Recovery Programme, funded by the China Foundation for the Development of Folklore Culture, announced a large- scale programme on Monday to claim back
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New rules better protect relics
China Daily
; The regulations supporting China's Law on Cultural Relics Protection, which took effect on July 1, will better protect the nation's cultural treasures and regulate the booming, yet disorderly, market for the relics. The unilateral emphasis on economic development and insufficient protection of
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Tracing cultural remnants for memory
China Daily
; ... variety of Chinese historians and archaeologists. In late 1996, Zhang, then a producer at the audio and video sector of the Xinhua News Agency, finally decided to document the fate of Chinese cultural relics through the use of cinematography. "There is a story ...
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Cultural relics being forgotten
China Daily
; Archaeologists' views should be taken seriously when urban construction is considered, says an article in Jiangnan Times. An excerpt follows: Another ancient tomb has been damaged in Nanjing, capital city of East China's Jiangsu Province. According to local media reports, the tomb was located in a
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The cultural relics distribution characteristics along the canal line and appraisal of its influence by the middle route project for water transferring from south to north China
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
; ABSTRACT Assessments of the impacts of environmental hazards on ecological systems and human health have become a subject of ever-increasing importance. In this work, we extend current ecological hazard evaluation to the problem of protecting cultural relics from hazards attributable to the
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Relics authority pledges action
China Daily
; China's cultural-heritage authority yesterday pledged it would take effective measures to protect the country's cultural relics in accordance with the newly amended Law on Cultural Relics Protection. The new law came into effect on Monday after being approved by the National People's Congress
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