Courts in Ten Places Across the Yangtze River Delta Sign Agreement to Jointly Protect the Liangzhu Cultural Site

Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, September 3: Ten courts from Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang signed the "Framework Agreement on CrossRegional Judicial Cooperation for the Liangzhu Cultural Relics Site" in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on that day, aiming to break through administrative boundary restrictions and enhance the coordinated protection capacity of the Yangtze River Delta region for the Liangzhu Cultural Relics Site. The report pointed out that the Liangzhu Ruins are an important cultural heritage that provides empirical evidence of China's 5,000year civilization history. Some of the remains are distributed across multiple regions, and in the past there were practical difficulties in aspects such as the transfer of case leads, onsite evidence collection and inspection in other locations, and the unification of adjudication standards. This cooperation will improve the efficiency of judicial protection by regularly sharing case information, strengthening mutual recognition of evidence, and establishing a consultation and deliberation mechanism. According to the agreement, all parties will also regularly carry out business discussions, unify evidence admissibility and compensation standards, improve the rules for the application of restorative justice, and establish an "Expert Database for Judicial Protection of the Liangzhu Cultural Relics Site," bringing in experts in cultural relics, ecology, law, planning, and other fields to provide professional support for crossregional judicial protection.