The National Cultural Heritage Administration deploys and promotes a special initiative for the safety management of collections in national state-owned museums.

People’s Finance and News, April 1 — Recently, the National Cultural Heritage Administration issued a notice and held a video teleconference to deploy and advance a special campaign to ensure the safe management of collections of cultural relics held by national (state-owned) museums across the country. The campaign will comprehensively carry out a full inventory and stock-taking of cultural relics held by national museums, as well as investigate and rectify safety risks.

This special campaign is a key task in the cultural relics sector—laying a foundation, strengthening the roots, and promoting long-term development. Through a one-year concentrated campaign, national museums will be organized to item-by-item inspect the cultural relics in their collections, fully verify whether accounts match the physical items, and help establish a normalized and standardized inventory mechanism for collections of cultural relics. At the same time, pilot work will be launched for the second national census of movable cultural relics. The campaign will also focus on identifying and addressing safety hazards in collection cultural relics, further strengthening preventive measures, improving safety management and emergency response capabilities, and ensuring the safety of collection cultural relics.

The National Cultural Heritage Administration requires all localities and museums to establish and practice the correct view of political achievements. Taking this special campaign as an opportunity, they should improve the management systems for cultural relics in museum collections. With solid work outcomes, they will build a strong line of defense for the safety of museum collection cultural relics and promote an overall improvement in the level of safety management for museum collection cultural relics.