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restored auction business has undergone a twisted experience in China, and especially the exchange and protection on the auction platform looks na ? ve, so Du Chunguang has become aware of the fact that only by learning from the international advanced auction enterprises and introduce internationalized and standardized service, can the auction platform be able to take more responsibility and has the solid background for the realization of more ambitious goals. By visits and study, in Aug. 1996, Du Chunguang, co-sponsored by Liaoning Economic and Technological Cooperation Office, Liaoning Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Center , and Jinhui Development and Investment Co., Ltd, applied to Liaoning Cultural Department for the establishment of relics and arts auction company. This application was highly appreciated and acknowledged by Liaoning Cultural Department, which drafted a letter numbered [1996]150, and submitted the letter together with the application by Mr. Du Chunguang to the Ministry of Culture.
The Ministry of Culture showed strong support and replied on Dec of the same year a letter with approval (Letter of the Ministry of Culture No. [1996]328 ). On Mar. 6, 1997, Liaoning Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau verified the registration of Liaoning Cultural Arts Auction Co., Ltd (the former name of the company), which started a critical step leading to this splendid ten years, and also unveiled the curtain of relics and arts auction market in northeast China.
Facing this special market, the company first promoted the knowledge of arts and relics and made them popular, and determined it as a basic target and direction at the starting stage of the company. Although the exchange and collection of relics and arts are confined to a specific group, they need some social background for the appreciation and protection of such relics and arts. At the same time, only by increasing the social awareness can the exchange and development be made smoothly, therefore, the social background is not only fundamental for a business but also a basic environment for the exchange and protection. For this purpose, the company has made many efforts: hire experts to open authentication service, periodically held seminars to introduce knowledge about authentication, organize the exhibition, publicize the historic value, artistic value, and collection value, etc. During this period, we have been strongly supported by many insiders and folk collectors. Mr. Yang Renkai, a famous connoisseur, authentication expert, calligrapher, has shown his appraisal to the company and written the company title, and paid his visit to the authentication site to comment on the collections. Song Yugui, the famous domestic painter in landscape and Feng Dazhong, a famous painter in drawing tigers, and so on, also sent their works collected for many years to share with the public……
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