An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 9, 2026 shows the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)
Organic cultural relics represented by bamboo slips pose significant challenges in cultural relic preservation. In recent years, the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou of Hubei Province has focused on innovation and application of preservation techniques for organic cultural relics, striving to ensure comprehensive care for such items.
Staff members check a cultural relic at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)A staff member checks the photo of a cultural relic at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)A staff member checks a cultural relic at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)A staff member restores a cultural relic at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)Staff members clean an ancient cotton garment at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)Staff members clean bamboo slips at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)Chen Shaohui, head of the textile cultural relics restoration department, checks a textile cultural relic at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance,
a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went
back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016,
working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
