Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Inspected the Jinsha Site Museum

Release Time: 2017-10-24

    On May 12, 2009, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi inspected the Jinsha Site Museum,accompanied by Ge Honglin, Deputy Secretary of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Chengdu. Zhu Shuxi, Director of Chengdu Municipal Cultural Bureau, and Wang Yi, President of Chengdu Museum (Brigade and Institute) and of the Jinsha Site Museum also accompanied them during the visit.

    It was the first anniversary of 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake. The Jinsha Site Museum issued free tickets to the public, attracting a large number of tourists. Minister Yang Jiechi highly affirmed this which reflected that the broad masses of people were greatly interested in cultural history, and that the museum met the needs of the people's spiritual civilization, and it fully exerted the social education functions of the museum. 

    Curator Wang Yi reported that the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Government had attached great importance to the cultural heritage protection and cultural facilities construction, allocating the free land and at the same time investing RMB 389 million to build the Jinsha Site museum. He accompanied the Minister Yang to visit the Memorial Sculpture Sun Bird, the Hall of Relics and the Exhibition Hall successively.

    Before Memorial Sculpture of the “Sun Bird”, Minister Yang marveled at its pattern designed by the ancients, believing that pattern expressed the ancients’ worship and awe to the sun and embodied their great awareness of the nature. In the Hall of Relics, Minister Yang Jiechi paid great attention to the situation of the sacrificial area in the Jinsha site, asking Curator Wang Yi in detail about the protection for ivory, the gold ware and the jade ware, and the progress of the excavation and protection in the sacrificial area. After listening to the introduction of Curator Wang Yi, Minister Yang Jiechi instructed the museum staffs to try their best to protect the brilliant and magnificent ancient Shu culture. In the Exhibition Hall, Minister Yang Jiechi visited each exhibition hall with great interest and expressed his admiration for the production level of the gold ware and the bronze ware, and for the processing craft of the jade ware of the ancients. He expressed his satisfaction for the great efforts made by the museum for the display of the cultural relics. In the Exhibition Hall with treasures of thousands of years, where, the “Sun Bird”, the gold mask and jade Cong of ten sections were displayed, Minister Yang Jiechi almost appreciated carefully every artifact.

    During the inspection, Minister Yang Jiechi has repeatedly praised that the Jinsha Site Museum is a national first-class and world-leading museum. He hoped that in the future, the museum could increase publicity efforts to make ancient and long Chinese civilization worldwide known.