In order to strengthen cooperation and exchanges among countries and institutions along the S ilk Roads, and to promote cultural heritage conservation and management, on D ecember 19th, IICC-X hosted the seminar on the Capacity Building for Silk Roads Cultural Heritage Conservation, Management and Monitoring, and Information D atabase Building. The attendees includes experts from the Silk Road countries: Project Official Ms. Tatyana Trudolyubova of UNESCO Tashkent Cluster Office, Uzbekistan; Mr. Nabijion Rahimov, Professor of Khujand State University of Tajikistan; Mr. Suresh Suras Shrestha, the leading World Heritage Official of the Department of Archaeology of Nepal; and also Silk Road cultural heritage experts from China, includes Prof. Ma Jian, dean of the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwest University; Prof. Yang Junchang, the deputy director of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Northwestern Polytechnical University; and Mr. Guan Zhaoyi, the deputy director of the Xi'an Qujiang Daming Palace Site Conservation Office. The seminar involved presentation and discussion of the transnational serial nomination of the Silk Roads, the South Asia Corridor, and the Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor, and issues related to the process and systems; and the seminar also actively discussed the cultural exchange and technical assistance for the countries along the Silk Roads; and systematically elaborated on the conconstruction of heritage digital database and the application of digital technology. Mr. Feng Jian, Executive Deputy Director of IICC-X, points out that IICC-X, as the international secretariat of the Silk Roads World Heritage Nomination Coordinating Committee, should, in its future work, promote cooperation among the countries, exert the center’ s functions, strengthen contacts with relevant departments of the countries, further promote research, exhibition, utilization, monitoring, management, publicity, cooperation and exchange. The center should also fully make use of the interna - tional functions to form a platform for international communica - tions and cooperation. On the basis of these, he enthusiastically expressed IICC-X’ s willingness to provide technical assistance to the countries within its capabilities. |
