Why are cultural heritage destroyed?

The factors that destroy cultural heritage include human factors and natural factors:

1. Human factors are completely "man-made disasters", mainly including:

1 , the threat of large-scale public or private projects.

2. The risk of disappearance caused by rapid urban or tourism development plans.

3. Damage caused by changes in land use or change of ownership.

4. Abandon at will.

5. The outbreak or threat of armed conflict.

2. Natural factors are caused by force majeure factors, most of which are "natural disasters". The main ones are:

1. Corruption over time and intensified transformation. This is the result of the simultaneous influence of natural and human factors.

2. Disasters and catastrophes, such as fires, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, water level changes, floods, tsunamis, etc.

3. Major changes caused by unknown reasons.

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Methods to protect world cultural heritage

1. Continuing history and inheriting culture

The significance and value of world cultural heritage , mainly reflected in unique creativity and typical expression of the culture of a specific historical period. Therefore, maintaining authenticity and integrity are two essential elements. These two principles should be adhered to in the protection of heritage sites and cultural relics restoration to prevent tendencies such as over-development and "repairing the old as new".

2. Clarify the management entities and speed up legislation on heritage protection

The newly revised "Cultural Relics Protection Law" is an important legal basis for the current protection of world cultural heritage and must be resolutely implemented . Beijing has promulgated the "Measures for the Protection and Management of the Great Wall", which will greatly advance the legal construction of the Great Wall protection. Special legislation for other heritage sites should also be expedited so that heritage protection can truly be legally based.

3. Reasonable development and moderate utilization.

Emphasizing the protection, social welfare and inheritance of historical and cultural heritage has become the common sense of more and more countries. In this regard, we should "connect with the world" as soon as possible and resolutely reverse the erroneous tendency to define the nature of world heritage as "tourism resources", let alone turn heritage protection areas into economic development zones. The number of visitors per day should be limited, and outdated management concepts such as "pure pursuit of ticket revenue" should be updated.

Relevant departments of the municipal government and districts and counties should be guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development, broaden their horizons, make bold decisions, and gradually change the economic operation mode of differential subsidies for public welfare management units through system and mechanism reforms. Conservation funds should be The government provides full funding to fundamentally resolve the contradiction between long-term protection and immediate utilization.

4. Strengthen research and expand publicity and education.

World heritage protection is a mass undertaking, and publicity should be expanded to actively mobilize and attract more people to participate. We should attach great importance to and give full play to the irreplaceable role of volunteers and civil society organizations in heritage protection work; give full play to the advantages of the capital, integrate central and local scientific research forces, carry out research on each heritage site and even the entire world heritage protection undertaking, and organize the compilation and publication of a report. Publish monographs with high theoretical value; strengthen the education of young people and improve their awareness of protecting and cherishing the cultural heritage of the motherland.

5. Make preparations for the application of back-up projects to the World Heritage

While preventing the tendency of "reiterating and under-protecting", we must make preparations for the application of new projects to the World Heritage. "Promote protection in order to protect the application", making the preparations for the application for World Heritage more solid and orderly.