The Qingdao Recommendations was launched during the International Conference on the Protection and Return of Cultural Objects Removed from Colonial Contexts, a supporting event of the 2nd Council Meeting of the Alliance for Cultural Heritage in Asia (ACHA), held in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province.
The release is in line with the international trend of global cultural dialogue and cooperation, and also demonstrates that China is taking an important role in the decolonization of museums and the return of cultural relics obtained through colonialism or other unjust and immoral means.
According to China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA), the Qingdao Recommendations calls on all countries to engage in open and inclusive international dialogue to facilitate the return of cultural relics to their countries of origin, beyond the scope of existing international conventions, in order to strengthen social cohesion and the intergenerational transmission of cultural heritage.
The recommendation is an important initiative to implement the China-proposed Global Civilization Initiative and promote the construction of a community of shared future for mankind.
It puts forward specific methods and suggestions for dealing with cultural relics that were lost.
