▌Home is where the heart is
此心安處
▌Jiangmen city of Guangdong is known as the “city of overseas Chinese” in China. In recent years, the People’s Procuratorate of Jiangmen City has been working to protect the rights and interests of overseas Chinese, strengthen protection of their cultural relics, and solve the disputes related to overseas Chinese.
廣東江門素有中國第一僑鄉的美譽。近年來,廣東省江門市檢察機關聚焦華僑權益保護,強化涉僑文物保護協作、涉僑糾紛多元化解。
▌They also supervised the protection of Wuyi Diaolou structures which were built with the financial aid of overseas Chinese from the time of the Ming Dynasty to the early 20th century. Diaolou display a fusion of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms. Kaiping Diaolou and Villages were designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007.
他們也致力于督促保護五邑僑鄉碉樓。開平碉樓源于明朝后期,到20世紀20-30年代,隨著大量華僑回鄉置業,開平碉樓出現了一個前所未有的鼎盛時期。碉樓建筑群展現了中西建筑和裝飾形式復雜而燦爛的融合。2007年,“開平碉樓與村落”正式列入《世界遺產名錄》,中國由此誕生了首個華僑文化的世界遺產項目。
▌In January 2022, the People’s Procuratorate of Xinhui District, Jiangmen found the Meige Pier have foundation settlement and cracking problems when they conducted a public interest litigation on the cultural relics and cultural heritage protection. The Meige Pier was funded and built by overseas Chinese. Promoted by the procuratorate, the local government actively pushed forward the repair and maintenance work, and raised more than 1.6 million RMB of funds among overseas Chinese.
2022年1月,廣東省江門市新會區檢察院在開展文物和文化遺產保護公益訴訟專項監督行動期間,發現由華僑籌建的梅閣碼頭舊址出現地基沉降、梁柱開裂等現象。在檢察機關的推動下,當地政府積極啟動修繕維護工作,向海內外華僑募得160余萬元資金。