The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a document: to eliminate the indiscriminate construction of "cultural landmarks" and other image projects

● To strengthen the control of large urban sculptures, strictly control the construction of large sculptures with a height of more than 30 meters or a width of more than 45 meters, and strictly prohibit the blind construction of large sculptures that are detached from the actual situation and the masses in the name of cultural heritage, development of tourism, and enhancement of the image, etc.

● Insisting on speaking of taste, elegance, and responsibility, and boycotting vulgarity, vulgarity, vulgarity, vulgarity, and pandering, strengthen the review of the subject matter of the landmarks, monuments, and thematic large urban sculptures to ensure that they conform to the cultural positioning of the city and the aesthetic pursuit of the masses. The review of the themes of iconic, monumental and thematic large-scale urban sculptures should be strengthened to ensure that they are in line with the cultural orientation of the city and the aesthetic pursuits of the masses. New urban sculptures involving memorial facilities, large open-air religious statues, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state to strictly fulfill the approval procedures

● Establish a correct view of political performance, culture, values and aesthetics, and resolutely put an end to the indiscriminate construction of "cultural landmarks" and other image projects, performance projects, and effectively continue the historical lineage of the city and countryside in the construction of the city and the countryside, Shape the characteristics of the style, show the spirit of the times

Reporter Wan Jing

The investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in giant city sculpture "planted"!

Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development for the masses reflecting strong Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, giant statue of Guan Gong project and Dushan County, Guizhou Province, Shuisi building project to be notified, pointing out that Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, in the ancient city within the scope of the historic district of the construction of the giant statue of Guan Gong, in violation of the approved "Jingzhou Historical and Cultural City Protection Plan" relevant provisions, destroying the appearance of the ancient city and the historical lineage; Doushan County, Guizhou Province, in the Yingshan Town of net Xinxin, to show the spirit of the times. Dushan County, Guizhou Province, the construction of the water division building in the Jingxin Valley scenic area of Yingshan Town, there is a detachment from reality, indiscriminate construction of "cultural landmarks", destroying the natural landscape features and other issues.

After that, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the Notice on Strengthening the Management of Large Urban Sculpture Construction (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), which clearly states that it is necessary to strengthen the management and control of large-scale urban sculptures, strictly control the construction of large-scale sculptures with a height of more than 30 meters or a width of more than 45 meters, and prohibit the blind construction of large-scale sculptures detached from the actual situation and the masses in the name of cultural heritage, tourism development and image enhancement. The construction of new urban sculptures involves memorial facilities, tourism development, image enhancement, etc. New urban sculpture involves memorial facilities, large open-air religious statues, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state to strictly fulfill the approval process.

Two places indiscriminate construction of cultural landmarks

Competent authorities issued a circular

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development circular shows that Jingzhou City, within the boundaries of the ancient city historic district construction of the giant statue of Guan Gong, up to 57.3 meters high, in violation of the approved provisions of the "Jingzhou Historical and Cultural City Conservation Plan," the relevant provisions of the city, destroying the ancient city's style and historical lineage.

Dushan County in the town of Yingshan Jingxin Valley scenic area of the construction of the water Division building, building up to 99.9 meters, an investment of up to 256 million yuan, there is a detachment from the actual, indiscriminate construction of "cultural landmarks", damage to the natural landscape and other issues.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development requires the Hubei Provincial Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department and the Guizhou Provincial Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department to combine their duties with the relevant departments to follow up and guide Jingzhou City and Dushan County to do a good job on the giant Guan Gong statue project and the rectification of the water division building project, and at the same time, to cite an example, strengthen supervision, improve the system, and find out that the first problems in a timely manner to intervene to rectify the problem, and to resolutely put an end to the indiscriminate construction of "Cultural landmarks" and other image engineering, performance engineering.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said, "Each place should set up a correct view of political performance, culture, values and aesthetics, and learn from the two typical cases notified, and effectively continue the historical lineage in urban and rural construction, shaping the characteristics of the style, and showing the spirit of the times."

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development summarized the above two notified political performance image engineering projects, and proposed that localities should, according to the requirements of relevant laws and regulations, accelerate the establishment and improvement of the management system of urban style, historical and cultural protection, and construction of urban sculptures, etc., and strengthen the management of the urban and architectural style of key areas such as the natural ecology, history and humanity, and sensitive landscapes, and protect the historical and cultural relics and landscaping, and do not dismantle Historical buildings, not demolish traditional houses, not destroy the topography and landscape, not cut down old trees.

At the same time, in accordance with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development National Development and Reform Commission on the further strengthening of urban and architectural landscape management of the notice and other documents, will be oversized volume of public **** building, super-high-rise landmark buildings, key lots of buildings and large-scale urban sculpture as an important urban project management, the establishment of a sound design program than the selection of the validation and open publicity system for the city is not in line with the positioning, For those that do not meet the requirements of urban positioning, planning and design, or where there is a big difference of opinion among the experts or a big controversy in the public announcement, the design program shall not be approved.

In addition, housing and urban-rural construction departments around the world should also strengthen supervision and management, set up a mechanism for social supervision and public opinion monitoring, open up public reporting channels, and promptly deal with problems found and report the relevant situation to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Strengthening the control of urban sculpture

Enhancing the overall image of civilization

Large-scale urban sculpture, as a work of art in the city's public **** places, is a constituent element of the urban environment, a concentrated reflection of the city's cultural taste, and an important symbol of the city's spiritual outlook. With the masses of urban culture, public **** art awareness and demand continues to improve, around the construction of a number of excellent cultural heritage of urban sculpture works, in creating a public **** environment, enhance the cultural taste, shaping the characteristics of the style and so on has played a good role. But at the same time, some urban sculpture scale is too large, the quality is not high, the subject matter is not suitable and the surrounding environment is not coordinated and other issues, especially in some places for the promotion of Chinese outstanding traditional culture awareness and understanding of the bias.

"Notice" clearly, strengthen the control of large urban sculpture. In accordance with the "City Sculpture Engineering Technical Regulations", the height of more than 10 meters or width of more than 30 meters of large sculpture as the city's important engineering and construction projects for management, strict control of the construction of more than 30 meters in height or width of more than 45 meters of large-scale sculpture, is strictly prohibited in the name of cultural heritage, development of tourism, enhance the image of blindly constructed out of the practical, out of touch with the masses of large-scale sculpture.

At the same time, strengthen the management of sculpture in important areas. In accordance with the "Historical and Cultural Cities and Towns and Villages Protection Ordinance", "Urban Greening Ordinance", "Scenic Spot Ordinance" and other relevant laws and regulations, to strengthen the protection of historical and cultural and natural landscape environment and other important areas and the city's important axes, landscape nodes of the construction of sculpture management to ensure that sculpture form and urban functions, environment, spatial scale match, sculpture connotation and urban history, culture, landscape style and so on. Coordination, in principle, shall not be in the historical and cultural cities, heritage conservation units and other protected areas and landscape landscape sensitive areas to build large urban sculpture.

In response to the poor quality of urban sculpture in some cities, Wang Xiangzhao, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), who has long been concerned about the management of China's urban sculpture construction projects, made a proposal to the National People's Congress many years ago, that the government should strengthen the management of urban sculpture in order to enhance the overall civilized image of the city. He believes that urban sculpture is one of the important symbols of urban cultural construction, which is often the symbols and symbols of city spirit and city soul. Iconic sculptures that express major historical events, important historical figures and the city's cultural spirit are indispensable to a city's cultural construction.

Wang Xiangzhao suggests that the government take the lead in setting up a professional auditing organization for urban sculpture composed of urban planning designers, sculptors, aesthetic historians, historians, sociologists, etc., to take part in the planning of urban sculpture projects as well as quality audits of the completion of the projects, so as to make sure that the urban sculpture can reach the height it should be from the form to the content.

Improve the program approval mechanism

Avoid a management gap

In recent years, many of China's cities have invested in the construction of sculpture, the higher the higher, the larger the volume, the more the number of more and more, resulting in a waste of financial resources. And most of the oversized urban sculpture content vague, simple form, general level, many cities have the same form of sculpture, there is no distinctive cultural characteristics and spiritual point of view, the social benefits of investment in urban sculpture is not high.

Wang Xiangzhao believes that an important reason for the existence of poor-quality urban sculpture is that the relevant departments of urban sculpture management is absent, and the actual management personnel lack of urban sculpture public **** art and other aspects of professional knowledge and due to the literacy.

Central University of Nationalities Law School Professor Xiong Wenzhao believes that the "giant Guan Gong statue" and other urban sculpture chaos in fact reflects China's urban sculpture management organization is not a clear division of labor shortcomings. For urban sculpture how to plan and management, construction and maintenance, publicity departments, cultural departments, construction and planning departments, city sculpture committee as well as enterprises and institutions have the corresponding management functions, but each in its own way, the lack of urban sculpture for the overall planning, the lack of cultural positioning of urban sculpture, spatial layout and the time of the unified arrangement. At the same time, the lack of financial investment in the construction of urban sculpture reasonable and scientific financial budget.

According to the "Rule of Law Daily" reporter investigation, China's current urban sculpture class companies mixed, many provincial capitals even have hundreds of sculpture class companies, inevitably vicious competition. Township stainless steel enterprises in batches to produce a variety of different specifications and shapes of the "stereotypes" products, sold at low prices, resulting in the proliferation of inferior urban sculpture.

To this end, the "Notice" emphasizes the need to strengthen the review of major themes and sculptures. Adhere to speak taste, speak style, speak responsibility, resist vulgar vulgar kitsch, strengthen the iconic, monumental, thematic large-scale urban sculpture subject matter review, to ensure that it meets the city's cultural positioning and the masses of aesthetic pursuit. Grasp the ideological, public ****, artistic and other value characteristics of urban sculpture, and strengthen the review and approval of urban sculpture involving important political figures, historical figures and reflecting important events and other major themes, belonging to the same theme and has been constructed, in principle, no longer repeat the construction. New urban sculpture involves memorial facilities, large open-air religious statues, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state to strictly fulfill the approval process.

At the same time, the "Notice" also proposed to improve the large-scale urban sculpture design approval mechanism. Improve the large urban sculpture design scheme selection, expert review, public participation, scientific decision-making mechanism, the sculpture theme, form, structure and coordination with the surrounding environment as a key review content, for the existence of plagiarism and imitation, low taste and other issues, or the masses reflect strong, expert controversy, shall not be approved the design plan. Combined with the approval and management of engineering and construction projects, urban design management, urban chief architect pilot, to strengthen the approval of large-scale urban sculpture design plan gatekeeper, play the role of experts in related fields, to enhance the city's cultural characteristics, artistic taste.

Comprehensive investigation and timely rectification

No indiscriminate construction of giant statues

City sculpture could have become a "business card" of the city, why would the "scenery" from the object of rectification? The root of the construction of light management. Urban sculpture belongs to the public **** property, in order to become the city's landscape, there is a need for scientific management system, and the key lies in the "project approval" of the accurate control above.

To this end, the "Notice" specifically proposed that the provincial housing and urban-rural development departments to strengthen synergistic docking with the relevant departments to increase the review and approval of large-scale urban sculpture construction projects guidance. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will organize the National Urban Sculpture Construction Steering Committee and its office to further regulate the industry management, strengthen the guidance and supervision of the construction of urban sculptures around the large-scale urban sculptures to break through the bottom line, the management of the management work is not effective, the construction of image projects, performance projects, resulting in a poor social impact of the leading cadres responsible for the cadres, in accordance with cadre management authority to the relevant party organizations or institutions, units to propose To carry out accountability recommendations.

Xiong Wenzhao suggested that in the planning of urban sculpture space, the construction sector should play a good collective role of experts, the implementation of "planning first". City sculpture construction steering committee at all levels to coordinate the relationship between the government and experts, strict evaluation system, grasp the level of art. For major historical themes, important historical figures, mega-sculpture, large investment sculpture projects and important venues, the city's important nodes of the sculpture to establish a special system of planning and approval, review. At the same time, the commemorative sculpture of historical figures and contemporary figures should be listed as a reference list, and be stipulated in the documents issued by the relevant departments. The various types of figures statues placed in the place, the scale of the sculpture on a macro level to have the appropriate limits and regulations.

"Notice" also proposed that the provincial housing and urban-rural construction departments should be in accordance with the requirements of the immediate organization of the administrative region of the cities and counties have been built, under construction, to be built on the urban sculpture project to carry out a comprehensive investigation of the phenomenon of involving the indiscriminate construction of giant statues and other "cultural landmarks" phenomenon or the existence of the city against the laws of urban development, damage to the ecological environment and the historical and cultural landscape. The urban sculpture project, to be corrected and rectified in a timely manner.