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The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and all ministries and commissions of the State Council, and all agencies directly under the State Council:
In order to implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, comprehensively grasp the situation of China's immovable cultural relics resources, and further strengthen the work of cultural relics, the State Council has decided to carry out the fourth national cultural relics census from November 2023. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:
1. General requirements
(1) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, conscientiously implement the work requirements of the Party Central Committee on adhering to protection first, strengthening management, excavating value, effective utilization, and bringing cultural relics to life, adhere to seeking truth from facts, reform and innovation, and implement them in accordance with the law, and carefully organize and deploy to ensure that the census results comprehensively and objectively reflect the basic situation of China's immovable cultural relics resources.
(2) Overall objectives. Establish a national general catalogue of immovable cultural relics, establish a national database of immovable cultural relics, and establish a dynamic management mechanism for cultural relics resources. Improve the mechanism for the identification and publication of immovable cultural relics, standardize the standards for identification and the procedures for registration and publication, and improve the system for the publication of the list. Improve the management mechanism for the protection and management of immovable cultural relics, and build a cultural relics resource management system that combines comprehensive surveys, special surveys, space management and control, and dynamic monitoring. Train and train professionals, build a strong team for the protection of cultural relics, and enhance the awareness of the whole society for the protection of cultural relics.
2. Scope and content of the census
The scope of the census is the immovable cultural relics above ground, underground and underwater within the territory of China, and the immovable cultural relics that have been identified and registered shall be reviewed, and the newly discovered immovable cultural relics shall be investigated, identified and registered at the same time. The main contents of the census include the names of the census objects, their spatial locations, protection levels, cultural relics categories, ages, ownership, use cases, and preservation status.
3. Schedule
The census will be conducted in three phases, starting in November 2023 and ending in June 11. The standard time point for the census is April 2026, 6. The first phase of the census will be from November 2024 to April 4, and the main tasks will be to establish census institutions at all levels, determine technical standards and norms, develop census systems and collection software, and carry out training and pilot work. The second phase of the census will be from May 30 to May 2023, and the main task will be to carry out on-site cultural relics surveys with counties as the basic unit; The third phase of the census is from June 11 to June 2024, and the main tasks are to identify, register and publish immovable cultural relics in accordance with the law, establish a national general catalogue of immovable cultural relics resources, and accept and publish the results of the census to the public step by step.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, on the basis of the results of the census, promptly verify and announce important immovable cultural relics as sites for the protection of cultural relics at the corresponding level.
Fourth, organization and implementation
In order to strengthen the organization and leadership of the survey of cultural relics, the Fourth National Leading Group for the Census of Cultural Relics was established, which is responsible for the research and decision-making of major issues in the organization and implementation of the census, and examines and approves the overall plan of the census. The office of the leading group is located in the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, which is responsible for the daily organization and specific coordination of the census work. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for and coordinates matters related to census funding; Matters involving the management of assets of state-owned cultural relics resources shall be responsible for and coordinated by the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage; The Ministry of Natural Resources is responsible for and coordinates matters related to data basemaps; Matters related to the publicity and mobilization of the census shall be the responsibility and coordination of the Central Propaganda Department and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. All relevant departments should perform their own duties, assume their own responsibilities, cooperate closely, actively provide clues on cultural relics in their own systems in accordance with the requirements of the overall census plan, organize and mobilize relevant units in their own systems to cooperate with the administrative departments for cultural relics to do a good job in the census work, and assist in studying and solving important problems related to their own systems in the census.
