A project by the International Research Center for Chinese Cultural Heritage Conservation (IRC/CCHC) entitled Guidelines for Chinese Industrial Heritage Value Evaluation & Reflections on the Framework of Industrial Heritage Value was selected as a “2019 CTTI（China Think Tank Index）Outstanding Achievement” in an evaluation jointly initiated by the Think Tank Research and Release Center of Guangming Daily and China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Center of Nanjing University. The evaluation awarded twenty excellent achievements and twenty outstanding achievements in total.
The project is a substantial part of the National Social Science program IRC/CCHC undertook in 2012 titled “Conservation System Research of Modern Industrial Heritages in China” which conducted researches on the transformation and upgrade of Chinese industries as well as issues related to the urbanization process, expecting to promote modern heritage conservation in China and urban sustainable development.
With the rapid development of Chinese cultural heritage conservation in recent years, it has been increasingly urgent to establish secondary standards at the national level for different types of heritages stipulated by the legal provisions on cultural relic protection.
Starting with the protection of Peiyang Fleet Daugu Dock built in Qing Dynasty, the IRC/CCHC carried out a thorough survey on the industrial heritages in Tianjin, and further extended it nationwide. As a study on the assessment of industrial heritage value, the project referred to diverse regulations at home and abroad as well as relevant research results, then put forward a general assessment framework on culture and economy and formulated the “Guidelines for Chinese Industrial Heritage Value Evaluation”.
This is the first attempt in China to set up guidelines for industrial heritage value evaluation and has won the support of China Cultural Relics Academy, Architectural Society of China, and the Chinese Historical and Cultural City Committee.
Supported by Tianjin University, the IRC/CCHC was founded by Professor AOKI Nobuo and Prof. Xu Subin from the School of Architecture in 2006. It was upgraded to a key scientific research base in Tianjin in 2010 and became one of the first batch of think tanks in Tianjin in 2016.
By the School of Architecture
Editor: Eva Yin
