Focus on "prevention, protection, research, management, and application"! The "15th Five-Year Plan" layout for cultural relics science and technology innovation is announced.

Today, the National Cultural Heritage Administration held a press conference to brief on the "15th Five-Year Plan for Archaeological Work." At the conference, it was introduced that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will further enhance the level of scientific and technological empowerment for cultural relics, systematically deploy key tasks around typical application scenarios of "prevention, protection, research, management, and utilization" for cultural relics, and solve major scientific issues and key technical challenges in the fields of archaeology and the protection and utilization of cultural relics. Tasks will be deployed in five directions: risk prevention and control, protection and restoration, archaeological research, resource management, and revitalization and utilization. Among these, intelligent monitoring and early warning technologies for illegal activities involving cultural relics will be developed, a data registration platform for state-owned cultural relic resources will be established, and support will be provided for the construction of a national cultural relic resource database.