On September 29, the Office of the Leading Group for the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census organized the completion of the comprehensive provincial acceptance work for the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. At this point, the overall provincial acceptance of the census in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps has been fully completed.
Starting from August 1, 2026, the Office of the Leading Group for the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census has formed 32 acceptance groups, including Rao Quan, Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Qiao Yunfei, Sun Deli, Tang Wei, and Deng Chao, Deputy Directors, Chen Mingjie, Director of the Culture and Art Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, as well as expert group leaders, working group leaders, and relevant departments The director led separate teams to randomly select 32 county-level census units, 61 key census areas (old cities, historical and cultural blocks, villages and towns, and traditional villages), 509 immovable cultural relics, and dispatched 101 experts to conduct on-site inspections on the implementation of census organizations, data quality, and archive results.
The acceptance team believes that all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and in accordance with the requirements of the "Notice of the State Council on Carrying out the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census" and the "Fourth National Cultural Relics Census Overall Plan", they have fully completed various work tasks, basically understood the situation of immovable cultural relics resources, and the data quality generally meets the requirements of the census standards. The acceptance team emphasized that it is necessary to further improve the fourth national cultural relics census work report and do a good job in data analysis and summary of results. Based on the final approval data of the Fourth National Cultural Relics Census Leading Group Office, a catalog of immovable cultural relics should be established and published step by step. It is necessary to establish a data update and dynamic monitoring mechanism for cultural relics resources, strengthen the management of cultural relics resources, incorporate it into the "one map" of territorial spatial planning, improve protection capabilities, deepen research and interpretation, consolidate cooperation mechanisms, and promote the systematic protection of cultural heritage.
Leaders of the leading groups for the fourth national cultural relics census from all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, leaders of the random inspection city and county census leading groups, and responsible comrades from relevant census offices at all levels participated in the acceptance inspection.
