On 29 May 2020, Professor Qian Wei of the Institute of Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology hosted the ‘Thirteenth Five-Year’ National Key Research and Development Program project launch and program implementation demonstration of the special projects ‘Monitoring, Early Warning, and Preparedness for Major Natural Disasters’ (special topic goal of cultural heritage preservation and use) and ‘Value of Movable Cultural Relics and Research of Key Technologies (Inorganic)’. The event was held in our college, both online and offline.

The ‘Value of Movable Cultural Relics and Research of Key Technologies (Inorganic)’ project was co-developed by the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, National Palace Museum, Peking University, Shanghai University, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute for History of Natural Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The project focused on scientific problems and common key technologies that need to be addressed in the perception of the value of inorganic cultural relics such as metals, ceramics, and glass. The project developed reference materials for the analysis of cultural relics, developed new methods for extracting and processing data on cultural relic materials and information, explored the relationship between ‘composition-structure-function’ of cultural relics materials, established a repository and database of scientific and technical specimens of metal, ceramics, and glass and their specifications, studied the history of how materials flow between regions and the cross-cultural exchange and dissemination of technology, and it found out how resource development, material processing, and civilisation development are related. The project results will provide basic support for other related technologies in the field of heritage conservation and utilisation. Doing so can help advance the technology on an international level and promote scientific and technological progress in the field of heritage conservation and utilisation, while also helping cultivate professionals in the field and promoting the development of heritage conservation and utilisation.