Academy's Team for Relics Protection and Utilization

The relics protection team from the Dunhuang Academy was granted the title of "National Outstanding Engineering Team" at the commendation ceremony of the National Engineer Award in January 2024.

The Dunhuang Academy has gradually assembled a high- quality protection technology team of nearly 200 technical personnel. They integrate production, learning, research, and application. In 1944, the National Dunhuang Art Research Institute established a protection and research team for clearing sand, restoring murals, and reinforcing cliff bodies in the Dunhuang caves. In 2014, the team opened the Dunhuang Caves Monitoring Center to enhance its protection efforts.

This team, spanning several generations, remains true to its original mission and continues to strive in the depths of the desert and between the cliffs. They tackle various technical challenges hindering the protection of ancient murals and the safeguarding of earthen sites and cave temples by monitoring and implementing preventive protection of Silk Road heritage, relics at excavation sites, and rock and soil artifacts. While ensuring the everlasting brilliance of cultural heritage, they work extremely hard to make breakthroughs in technological innovation and fight against nature as well as time. The technological concepts continuously developed by the team have been promoted nationwide and benefited the cultural heritage protection efforts of other countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) route.

敦煌研究院文物保護團隊

2024年1月“國家工程師獎”表彰大會上，敦煌研究院文物保護團隊榮獲“國家卓越工程師團隊”稱號。從1944年國立敦煌藝術研究所成立保護研究組，開展敦煌石窟積沙清理、壁畫修復、崖體加固等工作，再到2014年設立敦煌石窟監測中心，敦煌研究院在保護實踐中逐漸形成了一支集產、學、研、用一體化的近200名技術人員的高質量保護技術團隊。

這支團隊幾代人不忘初心，接續奮斗，在大漠深處、摩崖之間顯身手，攻克古代壁畫保護、土遺址與石窟寺保護、絲路遺產監測預警與預防性保護、文物出土現場保護、巖土質文物保護等方面的多項技術難題。他們讓文化遺產華光永續，是技術的革新突破，也是與自然的較量、與時間的對抗。敦煌研究院文物保護團隊不斷突破的技術理念被推廣至全國，并沿著“一帶一路”惠及更多國家的文化遺產保護工作。