Source: Qiao Xianjia (乔显佳), Qilu Evening News (齐鲁晚报)
Reporter Qiao Xianjia attended the 2012 Shandong Provincial Field Archaeology Conference, which was held in Jinan (济南) on the 21st and 22nd February 2013, and learned that the province is suffering from a shortage of qualified archaeologists and conservators as a result of the rising demand for their services.
Xie Zhixiu (谢治秀), Director of the Shandong Provincial Administration of Cultural Relics and Director of the Shandong Provincial Institute of Archaeology, told the assembly that there are currently around two million cultural artefacts in storage in museums across the province and a substantial number of these are in desperate need of restoration.
