The State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Public Security jointly recovered more than 66,000 pieces of cultural relics involved in the case

Recently, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage reported on the national cultural relics administrative law enforcement and safety supervision work in 2021, and seriously investigated and dealt with the Lu'an Mansion in Changzhi, Shanxi, an ancient building complex in Huangshan, Anhui, and the ruins of the ancient city of Luguo in Jining, Shandong, etc. major illegal cases. It is reported that during the special operation of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Public Security, local public security organs and cultural relics departments worked closely together, cracked more than 3,000 cases, destroyed more than 650 criminal gangs, and recovered more than 66,000 cultural relics involved.
Song Xinchao, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said in an interview that in 2021, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will seriously investigate and deal with the Lu'an Mansion in Changzhi, Shanxi, the ancient building complex of Xucun in Huangshan, Anhui, the ruins of the ancient city of Luguo in Jining, Shandong, and Henan. Luoyang Shixianggou Shangcheng site, Hubei Xiangyang city wall, Hunan Changde Jiashan Temple, Shaanxi Weinan Tang Fengling and other major illegal cases; focus on supervising Heilongjiang Harbin Jinshangjing Huiningfu site, Shandong Zibo Linzi tomb group, Gansu Longnan Dabaozishan site and tomb group , Jiangxi Ji'an Wentianxiang tomb, Sichuan Guangyuan Foziyan cliff stone carvings and other stolen cases and Yunnan Lincang Wengding ancient village and other fire accidents. The “12359” cultural relics illegal reporting platform of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has received 1,330 illegal reporting information on cultural relics, and the illegal reporting clues involving the Dayu Mausoleum in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and the Great Wall of Zhongwei Ming in Ningxia have been investigated and dealt with.

Comparison of before and after the theft of some cliff stone statues (Buddha statues)

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage said that in the past year, localities have strengthened the implementation of safety responsibilities in response to fires that threaten cultural relics protection. 26 provinces have included cultural relics safety in the provincial government assessment and evaluation system, and more than 250,000 cultural and expo units have established direct responsibility for cultural relics safety. People Announcement Bulletin Board. Continue to promote the rectification of fire hazards in cultural relics and the improvement of fire protection capabilities for three years, carry out more than 820,000 fire hazards inspections and inspections, and rectify more than 107,000 fire hazards and management problems.

Wengdingu Village

How to nip fire hazards in the bud? The Bureau of Cultural Relics introduced: "Five main tasks are carried out: First, investigation and rectification. All localities have organized more than 820,000 inspections of fire hazards in cultural relics, inspected more than 390,000 cultural and expo units, and urged the rectification of more than 107,000 fire hazards. The second is special inspections. In conjunction with major festivals such as the "July 1st", the State Administration of Cultural Heritage focused on random inspections of more than 60 cultural and museum units in 9 provinces, urging the rectification of more than 140 major safety hazards. The third is emergency drills, with 13,000 fire drills being carried out in various places, and fire drills organized. More than 30,000 times. Fourth, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Emergency Management have issued four systems of fire risk prevention guidelines and inspection guidelines for cultural relics and museums to provide guidelines for grass-roots fire rescue agencies and cultural and museum units to carry out fire inspections of cultural relics. The fifth is to strengthen facilities, guide the implementation of more than 350 fire protection projects in key cultural relics protection units in various regions, and configure fire protection facilities and equipment for a number of key cultural relics protection units. In 2021, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will receive reports of 6 fire accidents of various cultural relics. 15 cases in 2020, the number shows a significant downward trend.”
In the past year, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Public Security have continued to improve the joint working mechanism and regularly study and judge the safety situation of cultural relics. During the special operation, local public security organs and cultural relics departments cooperated closely, solved more than 3,000 cases, destroyed more than 650 criminal gangs, and recovered more than 66,000 cultural relics involved in the case.
Among them, the Liao Tombs in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, the Sanzhuang Tombs in Suqian, Jiangsu, the Qianliu Tombs in Lin'an, Zhejiang, the Yangjiao Water Fort in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the Fangshan Tombs in Jining, Shandong, the kiln site of Pacun in Xuchang, Henan, and the cultural relics of the Sichuan Provincial Library , Gansu Wuwei Gantanpo tombs and other theft cases, as well as a series of major cases such as the robbery of submarine sunken cultural relics in Zhangzhou, Fujian have been detected. In recent years, the Ministry of Public Security has issued "Class A Wanted Orders" for 62 fugitives of major and extraordinarily important cultural relics, and 61 have been brought to justice.
Among them, there are many cases with bad circumstances, such as the case of the robbery and excavation of Qian Liu's tomb in Lin'an, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Qian Liu was the founding monarch of Wu and Yue, and the value and status of his tomb is equivalent to that of the imperial mausoleum. In 2019, Jiang Moulei and Li Mouwei contacted online to plan to rob the tomb, and chose the tomb of King Wuyue in Lin'an as the target of the robbery. The two went out day and night to rob the Qianliu tomb by climbing walls, digging holes with tools, etc., and stole a large number of precious cultural relics, including secret-colored porcelain, gold and jade belts, etc., causing huge losses to the cultural relics. , the two principals were sentenced to life.

Qian Liu, King of Wu and Yue

Distribution map of Wuyue King Mausoleum in Lin'an District

According to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, in recent years, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has carried out proactive law enforcement supervision, using satellite remote sensing, drones, big data, cloud computing and other technologies to monitor the protection scope and construction control areas of key cultural relics protection units across the country in some cities. As well as the protection of some sections of the Great Wall, remote sensing law enforcement monitoring is carried out.

State Administration of Cultural Heritage conducts remote sensing law enforcement monitoring on the protection of some sections of the Great Wall

Song Xinchao said: "We combined remote sensing monitoring and on-site reconnaissance to compare and analyze changes in objects within the 'two-line range' to find out illegal construction, especially legal violations. It has better solved the problems that some localities do not take the initiative to report illegal cases of cultural relics, the daily supervision and law enforcement of cultural relics are weak, or even concealed and unreported, and the threshold of law enforcement supervision has been initially moved forward. In 2021, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will focus on 70 national key cultural relics protection units in 5 cities including Handan in Hebei, Guilin in Guangxi, Haikou in Hainan, Yulin in Shaanxi, and Haidong in Qinghai have carried out remote sensing monitoring and found 158 clues to violations of laws and regulations. Monitoring has covered 350 national key cultural relics protection units or world cultural heritage sites in 25 provinces across the country. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage has directly supervised the handling of 535 illegal cases, and a number of illegal cases involving world cultural heritage and national key cultural relic protection units have been seriously investigated and dealt with. "
Regarding the safety of cultural relics in 2022, Song Xinchao introduced that in 2022, we will continue to increase the intensity of inspection and supervision, carry out remote sensing inspection of cultural relics and law enforcement monitoring, and strictly investigate and handle illegal cases of cultural relics. In conjunction with the Ministry of Public Security, the General Administration of Customs and other departments to promote the introduction of a special work plan for combating and preventing cultural relic crimes, crack down on cultural relic crimes, and carry out special rectification for the management of rubbings and rubbings of inscriptions and stone inscriptions.