Sino-US Tuesday (May 9)The return ceremony of the loss of cultural relics was held, and the United States returned two stone carving cultural relics of the seventh century to China. This is also the latest example of the tide of the stolen cultural relics in more than a dozen countries in the United States.Huang Ping, the Consul General in New York, said in his speech that cultural relics have witnessed the vicissitudes of history and also reminded people to view and solve the problem from historical and developing eyes.He believes that Sino -US relations should fundamentally determine that the common interests, common responsibilities of the two countries and the friendship between the two countries should be determined.
According to the news released by the Chinese Consulate General in New York on Wednesday, with the authorization of the China Cultural Relics Bureau, Huang Ping attended the return ceremony of the Chinese loss cultural relics in the Office of the Prosecutor's Office of the Manhattan District of New York, signed a return agreement with the United StatesAnd receive two important stone carved cultural relics.
Huang Ping said in his speech that the return of the cultural relics fully reflects the unremitting efforts and close cooperation of the Chinese and American countries in the protection of cultural heritage.Understand friendship and inject positive energy into Sino -US relations.This cooperation will play a positive demonstration and leading role in cracking down on cultural relics smuggling, protecting cultural relics, and expanding intergovernmental cooperation in the world.P> Huang Ping emphasized that the backing stone couch returned today has a history of more than 1,000 years. It has witnessed the vicissitudes of history, and also reminds people to view and solve the problem from historical and developing eyes.He believes that Sino -US relations should be fundamentally determined by the common interests, common responsibilities of the two countries, and the friendship between the two peoples.China and the United States can cooperate and cooperate, and both parties and the world will benefit from cooperation.The Chinese Consulate General in New York is willing to continue exchanges and cooperation with various sectors of the consumer area to strengthen humanities and other sectors, and work together to promote the healthy and stable development of Sino -US relations.
According to the Chinese press release, Ms. Dipozo, a senior representative of the prosecutor in Manhattan, New York, introduced the basic situation and investigation process of returning the cultural relics fence, and said that this was after the return of the cultural relics in 2021, New YorkThe Manhattan Prosecutor's Office has cooperated with China for the second time to carry out cultural relics to return the work. I hope that the event will release a clear signal to the society. China and the United States will continue to cooperate to actively investigate, recover, and return theft of cultural relics.
Introduction to the press release, since 2015, the United States has returned a total of 404 (sets) cultural relic art and a paleo -fossil to China five times.Successful cooperation again.
According to Reuters, the prosecutor Alvin Bragg in Manhattan said in a statement that the two seventh centuries of stone carvings are currently worth $ 3.5 million (S $ 4.94 million), which is in the place, which is inIn the early 1990s, the thief saw it from a grave to smuggle China.It was then purchased by private collectors, and from 1998, it was "leased" to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until this year, prosecutors in Manhattan, New York were investigated in a criminal case investigation.Essence
