Suffer robbery anniversary
150 anniversary of the Yuanmingyuan suffer robbery
    October 18, 2010, is the Yuanmingyuan suffering robbed the 150 anniversary of the commemoration of the series was officially launched. Among them, the exhibition of archaeological finds mainly in porcelain and stone carvings based regression Exhibition are held for the first time, but also the most watched.
    More than 30,000 tiles to spell out one hundred vessels, 85 stone was removed home. Kangxi dynasties, porcelain, exquisite designs, superb technology, a tract on the fine white plaster, as a scars, it is particularly "dazzling". It turned out that they turned out to be from more than 30,000 pieces of broken tiles to spell out the
    The repair of cultural relics formal return of the Summer Palace the day is October 18. Right now, the repair work is still in full swing, but most of the porcelain kiln will be on display have been completed.
Recourse to national treasures scattered hijacked
Loss of cultural relics of at least 1.5 million
   "Kept from the current information see, lost at home and abroad all kinds of Yuanmingyuan relics of at least 1.5 million." Yuanmingyuan Management Office Director Chen Jie said, records the Yuanmingyuan furnishings furnishings inventory "not preserved, and may be destroyed, thus losing accurate investigation Yuanmingyuan relics basis and this figure is only an estimate.
Continue to conduct "treasure hunt" in the foreign countries
    According to the import and export of cultural relics and legal control of cultural relics agreement to jointly protect the international signing of the UNESCO General Conference in 1970, possession of stolen goods must Heritage restitution. , Chen Jie, before their departure, had a premonition that this line may not be smooth.
    However, because of the Working Group has repeatedly stressed that this trip is intended to recover the loss of cultural relics in the U.S. search process, the Working Group or the most museums and related institutions for the warm reception.
    Chen Ming-Jie said, the future, the Summer Palace Management Office will also choose to carry out the treasure-hunting trip to Europe and Japan in order to establish a more complete Yuanmingyuan relics directory.
Encounter many difficulties in the foreign recover relics
    To establish the loss of the directory is difficult to recover the loss of cultural relics to return even more difficult. Christie's in early 2009 despite the Chinese side to oppose the auction of Yuanmingyuan animal events from a reflection of the difficulty of the return of cultural objects displaced.
    Relics loss of the country to recover relics "home" to the International Convention as the legal basis, but for the cultural relics lost overseas for a long time, especially to recover from the Yuanmingyuan priceless artifacts, the actual operation is very difficult.
    Relics on the issue of sovereignty, there has been two controversial: One is that heritage is the wealth belongs to the world of human beings, should be stored in one of the most beneficial to its protection museum, and should not be controversial heritage nationality; another perspective completely denied this claim, that the relics who carries the nation's cultural memory, it should be vested in the home country, instead of wandering around the world of cultural symbols.
Patriotic personages repurchased artifacts and offered the gifts to the mother land
    It is understood that at this stage, China's cultural relics reflux in the form can be broadly divided into according to law to reclaim, the state purchases, private purchases and donations, which especially after the three kinds of higher degree of social concern. Yuanmingyuan 12 Zodiac bronze animal first example.
    In addition, the Chinese government has repeatedly use of legal and diplomatic means, through international cooperation under the framework of international conventions, the success to reclaim relics lost overseas.