Monday, May 22nd, 2023
China makes active efforts to promote cultural relics conservation in Asia
By Zhang Danhua, Du Yifei, People’s Daily As an important cradle of human civilizations, Asia has nurtured and is home to an immeasurable wealth of cultural heritage, writing a splendid chapter in the annals of world civilizations. However, natural disasters, such as earthquakes, as well as climate change, urbanization, regional conflicts, capital and human resource shortage, and insufficient management have placed Asia’s conservation of cultural heritage in an unprecedentedly complex situation. In May 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed for making efforts to conserve cultural heritage in Asia at theRead More
Project of establishing Pakistan’s new gen geodetic datum launched
DNA ISLAMABAD, May 22: The project launching ceremony for establishing Pakistan’s new generation geodetic datum was held here, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Monday. Maj Gen Saeed Akhtar, Surveyor General of Pakistan’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, and Mr. Zeng Huacheng, Deputy Director General of Agency for International Economic Cooperation of MOFCOM attended the event and delivered speeches respectively. In 2011, the Pakistani government requested assistance from the Chinese government to establish a Next-Generation Geodetic Datum of Pakistan. This Geographic Information System mapping and surveying project is expectedRead More