Why did Beijing recruit 30 junior high school students to be "craftsmen in the Forbidden City"?

On May 3rd, according to Beijing Daily, the pilot project of training high-end technical talents in the field of cultural relics protection and restoration jointly carried out by Beijing Union University, Beijing International Vocational Education School and the Palace Museum was approved. Starting this year, 30 junior high school students from Beijing will be taught by experts from the Palace Museum, and will receive bachelor's degrees upon completion.

According to the results of the first national survey of movable cultural relics, there are 108 15000 pieces (sets) in China, and the proportion of these treasures that need to be restored is 37. 12%.

The restoration department of the Forbidden City also admitted that it would take at least 100 years to restore the existing cultural relics with the current restorers. A restorer of the Forbidden City bluntly said: "There is an old saying that' you don't learn art at the age of thirty'. Most of the new employees recruited now don't start to learn art until they are in their thirties, and their fingers are already hard. Many skills that require hand-eye coordination are difficult to learn. "

In order to change this situation, this year, Beijing Union University, Beijing International Vocational Education School and the Palace Museum jointly launched a pilot project to train high-end technical and technical personnel specializing in cultural relics protection and restoration. In 20 17, the enrollment scale was 30 students, and the enrollment targets were candidates with official household registration in this city who met the entrance qualification of the senior high school entrance examination that year. The academic system and student status management of these students are all in accordance with the "3+2+2" training model. They studied in Beijing International Vocational Education School for the first three years and are secondary vocational students. Then it will be trained by the conference for two years, and it is a higher vocational student status; Then through the transition from junior college to undergraduate course, I finally got the undergraduate course. This major adopts the way of enrolling students in advance, and the minimum admission control line is 430 points.