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Beiting Study Research Institute was established and its first symposium achieved an unbelievable success.

Heavyweight predecessors and scholars participated in the symposium with Mr. Meng Fanren and Ms. An Jiayao in place. On the premise of "Beiting Study" jointly proposed by Jimsar government and colleagues, Mr. Meng not only defined and summarised the theory’s definition, connotation, category, property, function, influence, significance, historical status and contemporary function for the first time, but also pointed out lots of important topics and direction for the further development of the course, which helped the Beiting Study take shape. Just as what Mr. Meng said, its development and perfection can be anticipated soon.

Many experts and scholars, including Mr. Andrews, Mr. Chen Ling, Mr. Wu Xinhua, Mr. Yu Zhiyong, Mr. Ubud, and others from different academic and technical fields, gave their professional speeches to us. Although many lectures hadn’t been fully elaborated due to the limited time, they are all worth pondering and researching. I would like to extend my gratitude to all of the experts. What’s more, it’s great to see that most of the experts are young and energetic. For many years, it has been a pity that our Chinese peers did not get involved in the field of international cultural heritage. But now, I feel so proud and inspired that the expert team led by Mr.Andrews and other colleagues could reach the international level and influence the global direction. With their solid support, especially by Mr. Meng and Mr. Andrews, the team of Beiting Study would definitely attract more excellent scholars, which make me feel positive about the study and the institute.

The confidence also particularly came from them, including the Cultural Relics Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Changji Prefecture, especially the county party committee and government, the Cultural Relics Bureau, all relevant departments and the general public of Jimusar, whose devotion and care, cultural awareness, sense of historical responsibility, professional dedication, the work style of unknown to public but meticulous centered on Beiting ancient ruins. From the leadership to each person, we could feel the special emotion and attitude.

The first day I saw Hao Yongjun secretary, his desire to play a role of Beiting ancient ruins and the urgent feelings of bringing benefits to the people and social, were understanding and touched.

That the detailed explanations and solemn commitment to the protection of Beiting ancient city from Wang Yan, the county chief, reflected that the local government was responsible, realistic and passionate.

The leading cadres of Xinjiang reconstruction-assistance, Wu Kefen Vice secretary, who is from Xiamen, was almost to the end of the term, but she never felt a bit of a departure, and still do her best efforts for Jimusar, for Beiting. This kind of sense of responsibility and conscientiousness is touching.

Here from the Director Zhu Yueling, who at present single-handedly maintained the Cultural Relics Bureau leadership work, and her team, the vice-director Zhao of the NPC, and the other leading comrades of the NPC and the CPPCC, to our hotel service staffs, I can feel an atmosphere and a consciousness that they were strictly following the unprecedented high-degree attentions and concrete-series instructions for culture heritage work, which were from General Secretary Xi, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.

On this base and under this kind of atmosphere, there is a reliable guarantee and a great encouragement for the development of Beiting-science.

Beiting Studies, based on the systematic definition of Mr. Meng Fanren, could be generalised as “research on the broad geographic and historical context of Ancient City of Beiting, including both the ancient and the modern culture, economy, politics, and geographic and climatic changes of this area; on the evolution of the frequent and in-depth integration of diverse cultures and civilisations at this critical hub and convergence of the Silk Roads; on the identification, recognition, preservation, inheritance and promotion of the Silk Roads related cultural heritage system, exploring the significance of the historical traces and heritage to the present and the its reference to the future”. Please help us simplify this immature definition, which is open to criticism for perfection. The content is yet to be comprehensive and profound, the logic is not smooth enough, and the language is even incoherent. We expect you to weigh the words further with us. Mr. Meng himself is still revising his draft. Let’s wait.

The imperfection of the definition is caused by other concerns too.

Beiting Studies refers to a specific research category, in particular an explicit geographic area. When marching forward boldly and proudly, we need to address another problem – the importance of a global view and the awareness of political sensitivity. When maintaining our national interests, we’d better stand from a global perspective and play our role in an international context with justice and objectivity.

The goal and development of Beiting Studies will undoubtedly be the pursuit of the highest level and reliable academic research. On the other hand, we will devote ourselves to facilitating national and international academic communication and promotion. Mr. Meng has already proposed many fundamental research topics. Scholars and researchers could choose among these available topics in terms of your own interests, abilities, responsibilities and condition. The knowledgeable experts from Jimsar will propose more research topics of great significance and necessity, for researchers in and out of this field to promote the growth of the discipline. Also, we hope some IT expert would establish awechat group for people in the same profession to update and exchange information promptly. Of course, a newsletter will be of greater help.

We have just started to build the team of the academy, there are still many experts to be invited to join us. We welcome any recommendation from you, and we will have our colleagues from Jimsar for the coordination.

The academic study should aim to serve the society, study, protection, planning and display of Beiting ancient city and relative researches of its cultural system. Among those works, we should pay a great deal of effort to the very important basic academic studies including history, archaeology, information, related technology, structure, material and process to provide an authentic and reliable foundation for subsequent works. The initiation of project planning and method comes after that, and only when all these mentioned above are finished, can we have the actual implementation.

I understand the eager wishes of some colleagues to see progress ASAP, and I feel the same way. But we should keep it in mind that any mistake will be irrevocable when culture heritage is involved. So, our work should be based on the spirit of professionalism, findings of rigorous studies and related regulations and protocols. The initiation and implementation of protection project on any historical and cultural site should be discussed and approved by related departments in government at the necessary level, according to Cultural Relics Preservation Law. The protection of world heritage, which is also in accordance with domestic law, should be carried out under the principle of authenticity and integrity, the relation with surrounding environment and the interest of related people and parties should be handled appropriately. We should also pay attention to the special requirement of management and monitoring of world heritage sites, major projects should be approved by World Heritage Centre through the coordination of the state administration of cultural heritage. I believe all the colleagues from the academy of Beiting study will provide us active assistance with their full strength in all aspect. We will soon discuss our cooperation.

Lastly, please let me take this opportunity to once again extend my gratitude to Mr. Meng, Ms. An and all the experts here for attending and supporting this event. I’d like to thank Mr.Ubud from cultural heritage bureau of Xinjiang and officials from Changji autonomous prefectures. I want to extend my special thanks to the party committee and government of Jimsar County and your hard working team, wish you a great success. And last but not least, I want to thank the staff of Jimsar Xinxing Hotel for your warm and excellent service.