Tech-saved antiquities draw crowds of visitors
At the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services, or CIFTIS, held in Beijing from Sept 4 to 9, exquisite cultural products attracted the eyes of visitors.
Among the most popular destinations at the fair was the pavilion of the host city, a key national cultural center. Its cultural exhibition showcases Beijing’s artifacts, museums and the latest achievements in the integration of relics and technology.
As part of the exhibition, the Beijing Innovation and Incubation Center for Derivatives of Cultural Relics displayed its achievements made over the last three years and 22 pilot museums also showcased their creative cultural products at the exhibition.
Li Xiongfei, a staff member of the Beijing Innovation and Incubation Center for Derivatives of Cultural Relics, said that as a product development platform of Beijing museums, the center works for the capital’s cultural and museum resources.
With years of exploration, the center has become one of the most important achievements in creative cultural relics development and transformation. It has laid a solid foundation for building the whole industrial chain of Beijing’s cultural museums and cultural creative industry, Li added.
The exhibition introduced the online trading of cultural relics and art for the first time.
Antique online bidding platform ePaiLive organized online cultural relics and art-trading activities that attracted wellknown auction houses and antique dealers from 13 countries.
The total value of this trading is expected to exceed 3.3 billion yuan ($482.46 million).
The exhibition also displayed online trading-related technologies and released big data research results of cultural relics and art trading.
According to the local government, Beijing is home to more than 280 cultural relics auction companies, accounting for more than 60% of China’s total. Auction sales rose steadily to 17.7 billion yuan by the end of last year in the capital.