Preserve History Memory, Benefit Later Descendants

Recent years, cultural heritage conservation is a subject which people pay a great deal attention to. While city construction is like a raging fire, heritage resource is disappearing quickly, and cities are becoming lack of characteristics. To keep the cultural quintessence of cities', experts go everywhere and call on strengthening cultural heritage conservation. By using the related knowledge of public management, the essay has a discussion on the unshirkable responsibility and irreplaceable function of government. The essay is divided into three parts.Part I: Points out that cultural heritage conservation is an important function of government. First, presents the signification of cultural heritage. And then, has a discussion on the reasons of unshirkable responsibility and irreplaceable function of the government. And the function represents on five aspects: making protection plan, making policy and statutes, raising money, educating people, organizing and coordinating. At last, summarizes four main problems in cultural heritage conservation and analyze the reasons.Part II: Introduces west countries'protection process and experiences. First, by reproducing the development from early conservation to modern legal conservation and international charter conservation, reveals the cultural heritage conservation process of west countries. And then expatiates three main genres, four basic principles and mainstream ideology: integrated conservation. At last, summarizes six experiences that can be used for reference.Part III: Puts forward six proposals to improve Chinese cultural heritage conservation, including: establishment of scientific conservation view, scientific plan and integrated conservation, reform of the management system, improvement of legal system, fund source extension, strengthen of public participation.