Veteran member Fan Jinshi is one of China's cultural champions during this year's CPPCC. She revealed that she devoted her entire career to preserve and study the sixteen-hundred-year-old Mogao Grottoes along with its wonderful and historic wall paintings in Dunhuang. Jinshi advocated and will still continue to advocate for the cultural heritage site's protection.
In a report, since the year 1980, Jinshi has introduced several things and measures to protect the environment's mural and this have been noted such as restriction to number of visitors allowed in order to control the humidity and carbon dioxide levels.
"We realised that the more people there were in the cave, the more changes would happen to the micro environment and eventually to the paintings. We worked out the maximum permissible levels in order to restrict the number of people on site to 3,000 at a time," said Fan Jinshi who is also the former head of Dunhuang Academy in China.
Along with this, detection devices has been installed to make sure that carbon monoxide and humidity levels are stable because if not, visitors are guided to another spots or caves.
"If the light turns red, it means the cave is not available at the moment any more; it needs to take a rest. There are different detectors in the caves. They help monitor the environment, and at the same help give the visitors a better experience," Fan said.
All of the efforts to preserve the cultural heritage site was enhanced since last 2014 when Jinshi and her team initiated a digital exhibition center.
"Some people doesn't understand why I come here for the movie instead of the real paintings. But I have been observing for years and heard many visitors say the digital exhibition is even better than the caves," Fan said on displaying detailed 7 caves and encouraged the visitors to spend less time in the caves for important reasons of preserving the heritage site.
