In April 1985, a report written by Chinese experts on pottery and porcelain proposing to pay attention to underwater archaeology raised the government and public’s awareness of the importance of protecting underwater cultural relics.
As a result, the research office of underwater archaeology at the Chinese History Museum was set up in 1987. And the center for the protection of national underwater cultural relics was set up last year, aiming at ascertaining the real situation of China’s underwater relics as well as playing a leading role in protecting them.
Salvaging the sunken ships should be the first step to know the real situation of the underwater relics. However, at present it faces at least four problems:
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