The Guanyin Hall Teahouse Conservation Project in the Shuangliu district of Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, wins an Award of Merit in the 2024 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation on Dec 6. [Photo by Wang Hong/For chinadaily.com.cn]

　　Zhang Chunyan, deputy dean of the School of Architecture at Tianjin University, who once led a research team from the school to Pengzhen, said that while ancient towns across the country tend to have a uniform style, Pengzhen, with its century-old teahouse, has maintained a unique character.

　　“How to strike a good balance between the utilization and preservation of ancient towns is a contemporary issue,“ he said, adding that Tianjin University will take this opportunity to provide scientific guidelines for the orderly and rational development of Pengzhen.