As China's largest comprehensive state-level
museum, the security of the
Gugong and the preservation of its
cultural relics form the basis of all work at the Palace Museum. The
conservation of the Gugong calls for a complete and synthesising awareness of how to optimally handle the relationships between the needs to both conserve and utilise ancient buildings and between practical daily protection and appropriate large-scale renovations. The tasks of inventorying, cataloguing, conserving and salvaging collected cultural relics must be integrated with the work of studying, excavating, preserving and transmitting intangible cultural heritage. In
order to
raise the scientific and technological levels of cultural relics' preservation, the construction of a 'digital Gugong' must be accelerated. In addition to our own efforts at the Gugong to develop our own research facilities and apply our findings, we must also proactively cooperate with relevant departments in China and overseas, in order to achieve rapid progress in applying science and technology to the conservation and utilisation of our storehouse of cultural relics. We at the Gugong are determined to assume the heavy burden of commitment entrusted to us by the entire Chinese nation, and to strengthen and raise our capabilities in cultural relics' conservation work, so that we can better publicise the cultural treasures of the Chinese people.
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