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the draft revision of the cultural relics protection law is planned to be submitted for the third review. some members of the public have suggested adding new provisions on the photography of cultural relics and encouraging the return of cultural relics.

on september 9, the legislative affairs commission of the standing committee of the national people's congress held a press conference, where spokesman wang xiang introduced the relevant situation of legislative work and answered questions from reporters. at the press conference, wang xiang introduced the relevant situation of some draft laws being announced to the public through the website of the national people's congress and publicly soliciting opinions through various channels.

the 11th session of the standing committee of the 14th national people's congress will be held in beijing from september 10 to 13. the draft revision of the cultural relics protection law is expected to be submitted for review three times. the paper noted that in response to the second draft of the revision of the cultural relics protection law, some members of the public had suggested adding relevant provisions on the photography of cultural relics. at the same time, it was suggested to add content on encouraging policies for citizens, legal persons and other organizations to return valuable collections.

according to reports, the 10th meeting of the 14th national people's congress standing committee reviewed the draft amendment to the cultural relics protection law for the second time in june 2024. after the meeting, during the public solicitation of opinions on the national people's congress website, a total of 10,883 opinions were received from 2,593 people, and 43 letters were received.

wang xiang said that the public mainly put forward opinions and suggestions on improving the definition of cultural relics, strengthening the protection of immovable cultural relics, and improving the management of private collections of cultural relics. during the revision and improvement of the draft law, npc deputies such as cui ronghua from shaanxi province and zoya bahti from xinjiang uygur autonomous region actively put forward opinions, and grassroots legislative contact points such as shanghai hongqiao and zhejiang anji actively fed back the opinions and suggestions of local people. npc deputies and grassroots legislative contact points put forward some very good opinions and suggestions, which were adopted after research.

during this period, the grassroots legislative contact point of hongqiao street in shanghai successively held a special consultation meeting for relevant staff in the field of cultural relics protection and a special consultation meeting for the community on legislation. according to reports, at the special consultation meeting for front-line staff in the field of cultural relics protection, experts in cultural relics, archaeology, and historical architecture from units and social organizations such as the shanghai museum, shanghai urban construction archives, changning district collectors association, and changning district people's procuratorate, as well as private cultural relics collectors and public interest litigation prosecutors, conducted exchanges and discussions based on shanghai's regional characteristics and their experience in cultural relics protection.

for example, ye lanjun, a prosecutor from the public interest procuratorate of the changning district people's procuratorate, a "two-wing" unit of the hongqiao contact point, took the public interest litigation for cultural relics protection as the starting point, combined with the theme of "cultural and natural heritage day" in 2024 and cases in the field of public interest litigation for cultural relics protection of the supreme people's procuratorate and grassroots people's procuratorates in shanghai, and proposed to strengthen further surveys and investigations of red cultural relics.

in addition, based on the scarcity of cultural relics, it is suggested that the procuratorate should give full play to the preventive function of public interest litigation, focus on implementing governance from the source for situations where there is a risk of serious damage, and refine the provisions on fire safety management of immovable cultural relics.

for example, tao hai, a private collector, combined the actual needs of filming tv dramas and promoting the widespread dissemination of cultural relics with the need to add relevant regulations on the filming of cultural relics. at the same time, based on the experience of daily collection, it is recommended to add content on the level determination of returned cultural relics and the incentive policies for citizens, legal persons and other organizations other than cultural relics collection units to return valuable collections.

in terms of community consultation, on july 12 this year, the hongqiao contact point went to the changhong community under its jurisdiction to listen to the opinions and suggestions of the elderly, middle-aged and young community residents on cultural relics protection. for example, wu peihua, a 68-year-old resident of changhong community, was the director of the changning district culture and art center and the head of the social culture section of the changning district cultural bureau before retirement. as a cultural worker who has been working on the front line for a long time, she proposed to strengthen the attention to the immovable cultural relics of residential buildings and strengthen the publicity and popularization of cultural relics protection knowledge.