Protection of Zhenshan Village

In order to rescue and protect the cultural relics of the Buyi people in Zhenshan, so that they can be reasonably developed and utilized in line with the people of Huaxi District striving for the socio-economic development strategy with tourism as the leader.

In 1993, the Provincial Department of Culture and the Huaxi District Bureau of Culture and Radio investigation team conducted an investigation into Zhenshan’s cultural relics. In July of the same year, the Provincial Department of Culture submitted the investigation report to the provincial government, and Provincial Government Office Letter (1993) No. 178 officially approved Zhenshan as an ethnic cultural protection village. At the end of the same year, the Provincial Department of Culture allocated special funds to Zhenshan ethnic cultural heritage and village Carry out rescue protection and renovation of the appearance of the village.

In 1995, with the approval of the provincial government, Zhenshan Village was designated as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. In the same year, the Provincial Department of Culture allocated 100,000 yuan to reinforce and repair the Zhenshan Martial Temple. In order to strengthen international cultural exchanges and cooperation. In April 1995, the Provincial Department of Culture specially invited cultural and museum experts from China and Norway to Zhenshan for an inspection. Through this inspection, the cultural and museum experts from China and Norway intentionally included Zhenshan in the construction plan of the eco-museum group.

In April 1998, Mr. Bai Shan, the Norwegian Ambassador to China, visited Zhenshan for inspection. In early October 1998, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Chinese Museum Society and Norwegian cultural and museum experts visited Zhenshan again. This time, Zhenshan was officially listed as one of the Guizhou Ecological Museum Group, an international project of Sino-Norwegian cultural cooperation. On March 16, 1999, Ms. Gulu Fjelland, the Norwegian Minister of Environment, signed the "Letter of Intent on Cooperation with the Ecological Museum Group in Guizhou, China" in Beijing with Zhang Wenbin, Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. The next day, Environment Minister Gulu Fjeland led officials from the Norwegian National Heritage Administration to inspect Zhenshan. On April 23 of the same year, former Norwegian Prime Minister and Chairman of the Labor Party Torbjan Jacques Lange and his wife, accompanied by Mr. Bai Shan, the Norwegian Ambassador to China, visited Zhenshan for inspection.

In September 1999, Mr. An Laishun, a young museologist, was dispatched by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the China Natural History Society to Norway to draft the "China Guizhou Ecological Museum Group Project Document". On December 9 of the same year, the Provincial People's Government ( Qianfu Letter [1999] No. 286) approved the establishment of three ecological museums including Huaxi Zhenshan in Guizhou. So far, Huaxi Zhenshan Buyi Ethnic Museum has been included in the series of public museums in Guizhou.