via Global Times, 12 February 2023: The National Cultural Heritage Administration of China stated that they will work with Cambodia to fight the stealing and smuggling of cultural relics. They also agreed to provide assistance in joint archaeology, training young talents, and restoring ancient buildings.
China and Cambodia signed a joint statement for coordinating the Asian Alliance for Cultural Heritage Conservation (AACHC) on Friday, a great move for the establishment of an Asian community with a shared future and better implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), said Chinese experts on Sunday.
According to China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration, the joint statement stated that the two countries will carry out cooperation in the fields of endangered cultural heritage protection, joint archaeology, cultural relic restoration, museum exchanges, combating cultural relic smuggling and training of young talents under the framework of the AACHC. The AACHC is the first mechanism for international cooperation on the conservation of cultural heritage across Asia and aims to deepen exchanges between civilizations and jointly build an Asian community with a shared future.
