BEIJING: Amid calls for deeper international cooperation in the field of archaeology and contribution toward building a community with a shared future for mankind, the 4th Chinese Archaeology Congress began in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, on Monday.
The three-day event is jointly organized by the Society for Chinese Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration and the city-level government of Xi’an.
The biennial event, one of the highest-level academic forums for archaeological studies in China, is being attended by more than 800 professionals from 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Taiwan, and nine foreign countries including Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan.
The theme for the congress this year is “The formation and development of a unified multiethnic country”.
Chen Xingcan, director of the Institute of Archaeology, CASS, said that since the last congress held in 2021, China’s archaeological community has further researched the importance of archaeological studies in the development of the country, continued to explore and make innovations, and achieved remarkable progress. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
