What was Fan Jinshi’s award speech at Dunhuang?

Give up half your life for the vast desert. From Unnamed Lake to Mogao Grottoes, keep the fire of our predecessors and open the way for tomorrow. Not everyone can withstand half a century of wind and sand. A love, a painting, a cultural journey, from youth to gray hair. The place where my heart belongs is Dunhuang.

At 8 pm on May 17, 2020, the "Moving China 2019 Personality Awards Ceremony" was broadcast on the CCTV Comprehensive Channel and CCTV News Client. Honorary President and Research Librarian of the Dunhuang Academy, "Daughter of Dunhuang" Fan Jinshi was selected as the 2019 Person of the Year who touched China.

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Fan Jinshi regarded the safety of the Dunhuang Grottoes as life, took root in the desert, devoted himself to the archaeological research of the grottoes, and completed the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the Northern Dynasties, Sui Dynasty, and the early and middle Tang Dynasties. of periodization.

Since the reform and opening up, she has insisted on reform and innovation, led the team to protect and inherit world cultural heritage, actively carried out international exchanges and cooperation of cultural relics, introduced advanced protection concepts and protection technologies, built "Digital Dunhuang", and created the Dunhuang Monument The new model of Gao Grottoes opening management has effectively alleviated the contradiction between cultural relics protection and tourism opening.

Being the first in the country to carry out special laws and regulations and protection plans for cultural relics protection, exploring theories and methods for scientific protection of grottoes, and making outstanding contributions to the protection, inheritance and utilization of cultural relics and large sites in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage. Known as the "Daughter of Dunhuang".

She is a scientific explorer and practitioner of the effective protection of cultural relics in my country. She has been rooted in the desert for a long time, devoted herself to cave archaeological research, and completed the periodization of the caves in the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties in Dunhuang. We are the first in the country to develop special laws and regulations and protection plans for cultural relics protection, explore theories and methods for the scientific protection of grottoes, and make significant contributions to the permanent preservation and sustainable use of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage.