BEIJING: National Cultural Heritage Administration of China will launch a national survey of cultural relics later this year (2023), according to a meeting Saturday attended by officials from the cultural heritage authorities of the country.
The survey will take a period of three to four years to learn about the features, amount, conditions, and whereabouts of immovable cultural relics across the country, head of the administration, Li Qun said.
According to Li Qun, a national catalog of immovable cultural heritage will be set up based on the survey for a more accurate assessment of the situation of the protection and sounder policies of the relics on the protection.
Survey cultural relics
Apart from registering, examining, and identifying newly-found immovable relics, the survey will focus on re-examining the relics already registered and placed, Deng Chao, an official with the administration, said.
A list of bodies on the protection of cultural relics will be released along with the mentioned catalog, Deng Chao said. He said that the survey also aims to help improve the personnel for the relics’ protection and raise awareness among public for the protecting cultural relics.
The survey will be China’s fourth of its kind. The third national survey of cultural relics was conducted from April 2007 to December 2011, with over 760,000 immovable cultural relics registered and examined. – Xinhua/APP
