People's Daily Online, Siem Reap, December 16th (Reporter Zhao Yipu) From December 15th to 16th, the 29th General Assembly and the 36th Technical Conference of the International Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Development of Angkor Monuments (hereinafter referred to as the "Conference") was held in Cambodia Siem Reap held.
Nearly 500 representatives from Cambodia, China, France, Japan, Germany, the United States, India and other countries and international organizations and professional institutions attended the meeting, focusing on the progress and achievements in the protection, restoration and sustainable development of Angkor monuments .
On December 14, 1992, the Angkor monuments were included in the World Cultural Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee as an endangered heritage.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the entry of the Angkor monuments into the World Heritage Site.
Jyoti, deputy director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center, said in his speech at the conference that experts from various countries have done a lot of work to protect the Angkor monuments in the past 30 years. unique example.
At the meeting on the afternoon of the 16th, the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia and the Minister of Liaison and Supervision of the Parliament Mason An awarded medals to the representatives of various countries who made outstanding contributions to the protection of the Angkor monuments. Jin Zhaoyu and Yuan Mengxi from the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage were awarded the Knights of the Kingdom of Cambodia medal.
Mason An said that the Cambodian people should bear in mind the dedication and sacrifices made by experts from the country and other countries to protect the Angkor monuments.
In 1993, Cambodia and UNESCO launched the International Action for the Protection of Angkor Monuments, which is the longest-running international cultural heritage cooperation project in history. More than 20 countries have participated in it for 30 years, making Angkor Monuments a heritage protection A platform for international exchange.
China is one of the earliest initiators and participants of this action.
The Cambodian Angkor Monuments Protection Chinese Task Force started the protection and restoration of Angkor monuments in 1998, and successively restored the Zhousa Temple and the Tea Keo Temple. Since 2019, the Angkor Monuments Royal Palace site restoration project has been carried out.
