China News Service, Tongchuan, Shaanxi, June 13 (Reporter Alina) The 2026 "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day" Shaanxi Province main venue event was held in Tongchuan on the 13th.
The "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day" Shaanxi main venue event was held in Tongchuan. Photo courtesy of Tongchuan Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau (Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau)
Jia Qiang, director of the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, said that to move towards a new journey of cultural heritage protection, inheritance and utilization in the "15th Five-Year Plan", it is necessary to further build a solid foundation for systematic protection, coordinate the long-term development of cultural relics, improve laws and regulations and supervision systems, promote the modernization and digital management of cultural relics, and achieve overall protection, coordinated supervision and sustainable inheritance of cultural heritage. Further deepen the practice of inheritance and utilization, deeply explore the historical value, cultural connotation and spirit of the times contained in cultural relics, create archaeological research, site activation, venue improvement, and red inheritance characteristic brands, and continue to meet the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs. We will further broaden the horizons of cultural exchanges, deepen cultural exchanges and cooperation in multiple fields, carry out cultural relics outreach, joint archeology, and research interactions on a regular basis, actively display the elegance of Chinese civilization and the charm of Shaanxi culture, and continue to tell the story of Shaanxi, the Silk Road, and the Chinese story.
At the home event, the list of Shaanxi Province's "Most Beautiful Cultural Relics Security Guardians" in 2026 was announced. Wu Jiang, a mass cultural protector of Yuchi Village, Qinling Street, Lintong District, Xi'an City, and other 10 people were selected; the "Shaanxi Province Cultural Relics Theme Tour Trail" was announced "Typical Cases", including 7 typical cases of cultural relics theme tour trails such as the Yangling Tomb of Han Jing Emperor Yangling Museum of the Han Dynasty - "Tracing Yangling Tomb of Han Dynasty"; the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau cooperated with the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information, and the Northwest Nonferrous Geological Minerals Industry Group Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement; the Tongchuan Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archeology, and held a handover ceremony for the archaeological relics unearthed from the Tongchuan Capital Construction Project; Chen Ningning, leader of the Second Team of the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census of Tongchuan City and deputy research librarian of the Yaozhou Kiln Museum, told everyone about the census time of "traveling through Qiju to protect the cultural context"; publicity activities such as cultural relics protection, cultural creation, and intangible cultural heritage exhibitions were also held at the main venue.
Before and after "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day" in 2026, cultural relics administrative departments, cultural and museum units, social industries and other institutions across Shaanxi have carefully organized and planned various online and offline promotional activities with distinctive features around the theme of "Cultural Relics Belong to the People and Serve the People". Among them, city and county cultural relics units and cultural relics units directly under the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau held more than 320 series of promotional activities with rich and colorful content, focusing on the new progress and new results of the high-quality development of cultural relics in Shaanxi in recent years, making the concept of cultural relics protection deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and allowing cultural heritage to shine with new brilliance. (over)
