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Written by: Kong Fanxu
2021-03-01 12:53
Last update date: 2021-03-01 12:53
The Bishop Mountain Pei Reservoir was nearly demolished last year. Chen Zhiyuan, the co-founder of "Live Hong Kong", stated on a radio program today (1st) that after two months of gathering non-governmental forces to produce a report, he believes that the Biology Mountain Pei Reservoir has extremely high cultural relics value and should be taken away. Listed as a legal monument.
Chen criticized the historical grading system of the Antiquities Office for its shortcomings. The grading standard focuses on "complete buildings", which often prevents the preservation of "valuable cultural relics", and thinks that he is a judge.
The Bishop Mountain Service Reservoir was nearly demolished last year.
(Photo provided by the Antiquities and Monuments Office)
Chen Zhiyuan stated in the TV and TV program "Millenniums" that according to information, the Bishop Hill Service Reservoir is an important process for Hong Kong’s urban development, witnessing Hong Kong’s development from street pumps to the reservoir system, which provides water for the Kowloon area, and is one of the entire Kowloon reservoir water supply system. 1. At present, some of the statutory monuments are listed, plus it is a pre-war service reservoir, which is very rare and very few. The service reservoir is unique and is an important and unique building in Hong Kong during the same period, although a part of it was destroyed by a construction project last year. , But 90% still maintain the original appearance and should be repairable.
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The historical rating system needs to expand appointments
Chen believes that the current historical rating system has many problems. For example, the number of expert groups is too small, there is a need to expand appointments, and the rating process is slow, which does not meet social expectations.
Chen also pointed out that this incident also reflects the department’s outdated standards for categorizing "what is required to be rated". Currently, a complete building is required for priority ratings, and the rest will be "buried aside." If this standard is often left over, Because many valuable cultural relics may not be buildings, but they are equally important, it is believed that another ruler is needed to measure them.
Chen Xu said that when the Water Supplies Department described the service reservoir as a water tank, the Antiquities Office thought that "the water tank can be demolished without grading and verification," and criticized the Antiquities Office for forgetting its mission of professionalism and preservation of cultural relics.
Chen Zhiyuan described the bureaucratic grading standards of the Antiquities Office as outdated and feared that valuable cultural relics would be missed.
(Photo by Luo Junhao)
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