The old employee persistently reported the former director of the museum. If true, it is a grave crime and must be thoroughly investigated.

This is a significant matter; cultural relics are the traces of civilization left by our ancestors. Chinese civilization has a history of five thousand years, and many cultures have unfortunately been lost over time due to natural disasters or human calamities, leaving future generations to lament. It is important to know that people truly feel the brilliance of Chinese civilization through each and every cultural relic. The greatest crimes against Chinese cultural relics are of several categories:

Firstly, there are the invaders, including the Japanese army. The burning of the Summer Palace by the British and French forces is a heinous act, and the splendid and dazzling Chinese relics in the British Museum are not only an immortal symbol of Chinese civilization but also shameless evidence of the invaders' crimes. The Japanese army invaded China for 14 years, and how many cultural relics did they plunder? We say that Japan should make war reparations, and first, we should retrieve the Chinese relics they plundered!

Secondly, there are the relic traffickers. These individuals not only steal a large number of cultural relics abroad but also do so in a destructive manner, which is a grave crime! Thirdly, the former director of the Nanjing Museum is suspected of embezzlement as reported by museum employees. Whether this is true still requires official investigation. However, regardless of its truth, all museums across the country should conduct a large-scale inspection and audit, tracing back 76 years since the founding of the country to thoroughly check everything. If there is embezzlement, none should be spared. In this regard, we should first commend the employees who reported this with their ID cards and also commend the online space as a spiritual home for billions of internet users.

In fact, the reporting process regarding the issues at the Nanjing Museum has continued for many years. In June 2008: Xu Huping resigned as the Party Secretary of the Nanjing Museum and retired. That month, 42 employees of the museum (including the informant Guo Lidian) jointly reported Xu Huping, reflecting issues such as unfair allocation of fundraising houses, obstructing the inventory of national treasures, and unclear accounts. The report was submitted by the then Director of the Preservation Department, Ling Bo, and Ouyang Zongjun to Xinhua's internal reference, but it ultimately did not receive a clear handling result. In 2012: Guo Lidian again joined employees to supplement the report, adding accusations of "illegal disposal of donated cultural relics," but still did not receive a clear response from relevant departments. In 2014: Guo Lidian submitted reporting materials to the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Department through the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, accusing Xu Huping of corruption and bribery-related behaviors, yet the report still bore no fruit.

From 2010 to November 2025: Guo Lidian continuously reported Xu Huping for suspected cultural relic trafficking in his personal capacity to multiple departments, during which relevant details were not made public, and the reports did not achieve substantive progress. In the second half of 2025: A suspected donation of "Spring in Jiangnan" scroll from the Pang Laichen family appeared at an auction preview in Beijing, estimated at 88 million yuan. Pang Laichen's descendants discovered that of the 137 cultural relics donated by the family, 5 were missing, attracting public attention. On December 21, 2025: Retired Nanjing Museum employee Guo Lidian released a real-name reporting video on the WeChat video account "Nanjing Museum Collection Person," directly accusing Xu Huping of embezzlement during his tenure, accusing him of tearing apart the seals of cultural relics moved from the Forbidden City, instructing experts to identify real items as forgeries, and trafficking relics overseas through provincial cultural stores and his son's auction company, along with providing work ID to verify his identity.

Among this, retired Nanjing Museum employee Guo Lidian is a key figure; he has been persistent for more than a decade, and this time he reported in real name through a WeChat video account, especially providing the "theft" path of cultural relics from the former director, cultural relic stores, and auction companies to overseas, which the country must pay high attention to. Additionally, it is very important that the collector Pang Laichen's descendants donated 137 pieces of "Xu Zhai's old collection of ancient paintings" to the Nanjing Museum in 1959, including rare pieces like Qiu Ying's "Spring in Jiangnan" from the Ming Dynasty and Zhao Guangfu's "Double Horse Painting" from the Northern Song Dynasty, all registered as museum collections. As a result, including "Spring in Jiangnan," 5 pieces of donations from the Pang Laichen family were transferred to the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural General Store on the grounds of "not meeting collection standards," among which "Spring in Jiangnan" was labeled as a "forgery."

Whether there are indeed tricks of embezzlement by the former director must not end up like previous reports that were left unresolved; a clear account must be given to the people of the country, and actions for thorough investigation are suggested.

Firstly, it is suggested that the national level establish a joint investigation team to enter Nanjing for a comprehensive investigation. Since the events involved are of a long time ago, and the personnel involved are of advanced age, and the matters concerning cultural relics are serious, national-level investigations should be initiated as soon as possible, and there should be no procrastination. Moreover, it cannot be allowed to sink into oblivion like previous reports. If it were not for the donor discovering the donated cultural relics at the auction house this time, it might have been difficult to reach the current level of attention. We can no longer ignore the enormous risks of cultural relics being embezzled.

Secondly, it is suggested that all museums across the country trace back 76 years, register all cultural relics, and through the process of information technology, ensure that none will be "lost" again. Objectively speaking, if there were lawless museum directors or other authorities embezzling, a major reason is the existence of surveillance blind spots. Currently, in the new era of "without information technology, there is no modernization," information technology should be the standard configuration of museums, allowing every cultural relic to be accounted for and included in the view of the state and the people, avoiding mischief by unscrupulous individuals.

Thirdly, it is necessary to investigate the cultural relics plundered or stolen by Japanese invaders and other robbers and make them public, initiating actions for recovery. The punishment actions against Koizumi Saema should include the recovery of cultural relics plundered by the Japanese army as an important content. In summary: Museum modernization must be a model of Chinese-style modernization. We must resolutely grasp typical cases and be good at upgrading through digitalization, networking, and intelligent operation, eliminating any "blind spots" in any museum, thereby becoming the brightest light illuminating the forward path of the Chinese nation.