What is the significance of Anhui legislation to protect Huizhou ancient architecture?

Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The 42nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress of Anhui Province has recently reviewed and approved the "Regulations on the Protection of Huizhou Ancient Buildings in Huangshan City". The regulations provide for the implementation of ancient building protection responsibility system, the ownership or use of ancient dwellings can be legally transferred.

According to the introduction, the regulations referred to ancient buildings are built in Huangshan City before 1949 to reflect the historical features and local characteristics, and has a historical, artistic and scientific value, included in the protection of the list of buildings of all kinds.

Regulations clearly, the implementation of the protection of ancient buildings list management, included in the protection of the list of ancient buildings to establish archives, set up signs. Within the scope of protection of ancient buildings, may not be detrimental to the protection of ancient buildings, other engineering construction or blasting, drilling and other operations. Ancient building maintenance to follow the "principle of minimal intervention".

Regulations provide that the implementation of the responsibility for the protection of ancient buildings system. County (district) departments in charge of cultural relics and ancient buildings to sign a letter of responsibility. Among them, the state-owned ancient buildings, the user is the person responsible for the protection; the user is not clear, the ancient buildings where the township (town) government or street office is the person responsible for the protection. Non-state-owned buildings, the owner is the person responsible for the protection; the owner is unknown or unclear ownership of the house, the user is the person responsible for the protection. Rental housing otherwise agreed upon except.

In addition, the regulations can be clear through a variety of ways conducive to the protection of the rational use of ancient buildings.

How to define the property rights of Huizhou ancient buildings? Regulations clear: citizens, legal persons and other organizations can obtain through the legal transfer of ownership or use of ancient houses. Huangshan Municipal Government will integrate the city's ancient residential property rights centralized trading platform, to promote the ancient residential property rights in accordance with the law and orderly flow.