Leshi conservation center in Beijing expertly preserves cultural relics

The Leshi Cultural Relics Restoration Center in Shunyi district, Beijing, boasts an expert panel of over 50 top-tier Chinese conservation specialists, supported by a young team of more than 40 conservators.

The facility houses dedicated workshops for paper, ceramic, metal, textile, stone, lacquer, and wooden artifact restoration, plus a general conservation workshop, a cultural heritage analysis laboratory, a digital documentation room, and storage vaults for organic and inorganic relics and wooden-lacquer artifacts, according to the center.

The restoration center is equipped with security, fire protection, and surveillance systems, and maintains an independent security team. It adopts tiered and zoned access control, 24-hour full-coverage video monitoring, and high-density infrared protection to protect the relics.

Leshi has forged partnerships with more than 300 State-owned museums and cultural heritage institutions across China. It has undertaken nearly 100 heritage conservation and restoration projects, treating over 8,000 state-collected cultural relics. Among them are close to 5,000 of Grade III and above, including more than 700 Grade I cultural relics, the center said.