Responsible units and personnel related to the management of donated cultural relics at Nanjing Museum were dealt with

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, September 16th: The reporter learned from the relevant departments of Jiangsu Province that the responsible units and personnel involved in the management of donated cultural relics related to the Nanjing Museum have been dealt with in accordance with regulations, disciplines and laws.

Xu Huping took advantage of his position as executive vice president and president of the Nanjing Museum to provide assistance to others in undertaking projects and promoting business cooperation. He accepted property from others and was convicted of bribery. He was sentenced to three years in prison and fined RMB 200,000. Previously, based on the investigation of the Nanjing Museum’s management of donated cultural relics, Xu Huping had been expelled from the party in accordance with regulations, disciplines and laws, and his benefits had been revoked in accordance with regulations. Relevant responsible persons such as the former Provincial Department of Culture, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the Nanjing Museum, and the former Provincial Cultural Relics Headquarters Zhang Mou, due to their inability to perform their job responsibilities or inadequate law enforcement supervision responsibilities, had corresponding leadership responsibilities or direct responsibility for illegal allocation and sales of calligraphy and paintings, etc., and were accordingly given corresponding punishments such as expulsion, removal from office, demotion, serious intra-party warning, intra-party warning, adjustment of positions, and criticism and education.

The Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, and the Nanjing Museum, while conducting in-depth inspections of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, have carefully learned lessons and are drawing inferences from one example to advance the special management of the safety management of cultural relics in state-owned museums throughout the province, effectively improving and improving the cultural relics management system, and safeguarding the bottom line of cultural relics safety.