Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13 (reporter Shi yuzen) the reporter learned from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on the 13th that at the “South China sea and underwater archaeological work conference” held in Haikou recently, Song Xinchao, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said, in the next step, we will conduct a comprehensive survey of special resources for Underwater Cultural Heritage, promote coastal provinces to do a good job in the investigation of sea-related sites, and actively carry out a net-type survey around the South China Sea islands and reefs and important routes to further find out the family background.
According to the introduction, at present, the working mode of underwater archaeology in our country is still mainly based on the clues provided by fishermen and the verification of underwater archaeology. The initiative and dominance are not strong; The systematic investigation carried out with key sea areas as a unit is progressing slowly, the family background is still unclear. In addition, underwater archaeology also faces problems such as imperfect relevant laws and regulations, lack of professionals, coordination mechanism of underwater archaeology work in many ministries and commissions, and failure to fully play its role in joint law enforcement mechanism.
Song Xinchao said that in the next step, the special resource survey of underwater cultural heritage will be carried out comprehensively, focusing on underwater cultural relics, and residential sites, port and Wharf sites, archaeological investigation, registration and publication of cultural relics such as boundary pillars and pillars will find out the main distribution and preservation status of underwater cultural heritage resources in the South China Sea as soon as possible.
In addition, he also demanded to crack down on illegal and criminal activities that destroy underwater cultural heritage, implement the protection measures of discovered underwater cultural sites, strictly control important ports, and further promote public security, border defense, maritime police, information sharing among cultural relics and other departments shall be timely deployed to carry out special strike operations.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13 (reporter Shi yuzen) the reporter learned from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on the 13th that at the “South China sea and underwater archaeological work conference” held in Haikou recently, Song Xinchao, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said, the next step will be to fully carry out underwater