On October 24, NWU hosted an academic symposium on “Building China’s Archaeology Discipline in the New Era from the Perspective of Civilizational Exchange”. More than 400 people attended, including Zhang Ling, deputy director-general of the Department of Archaeology of the National Cultural Heritage Administration; Ding Pengbo, deputy director of the National Museum of China; Chang Huaiying, deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Zhang Zhiguo, deputy director of the Archaeological Research Center of the National Cultural Heritage Administration; Sun Zhouyong, deputy director of the Cultural Heritage Administration of Shaanxi Province; Lothar von Falkenhausen, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and Sun Qingwei, president of Northwest University, together with representatives of universities and museums and cultural heritage institutions at home and abroad, as well as faculty and students. The symposium was chaired by Han Zhibin, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Northwest University Committee and vice president. (School of Cultural Heritage)
