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China to set up database of stolen cultural relics

ByAPDwriterGongChenChina’snationalwatchdogoverculturalrelicsrecentlyannouncedthatthedatabaseofstolenculturalrelicswillbeestablishedtopublishtheinformationofChin

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5,000-year-old Neolithic relics unearthed in SW China

Anumberofculturalrelicsdatingbackupto5,000yearshavebeenunearthedinsouthwestChina'sSichuanProvince.TheexcavationstartedinOctoberandledto122majordiscoveriesinclud

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A variety show that brings cultural relics back to life

TheChinesevarietyshowindustryhasrecentlywitnessedtheriseofanewblackhorse.AfteritsdebutonDecember3,“NationalTreasure,"originatedbyChinaCentralTelevision(CCTV),ha

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China puts forth better efforts to protect their cultural relics

TheStateCouncilonWednesdayissuedaguidelinetobetterprotectculturalrelicsinChina.AsspiritualandculturalsymbolsofChinesecivilization,culturalrelicsserveasanembodim

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Beijing’s Yuanmingyuan stone ball found safe under preservation

Beijing’s Old Summer Palace says the missing stone ball inside one of the park’s guardian lions’ mouths is currently well preserved after investigation.

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Beijing’s Yuanmingyuan stone ball found safe under preservation

Beijing’sOldSummerPalacesaysthemissingstoneballinsideoneofthepark’sguardianlions’mouthsiscurrentlywellpreservedafterinvestigation.Theresponsecameafewdaysafterav

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Palace Museum honors farmer who donated rare cultural relics

A memorial service was held in the Palace Museum in Beijing on Thursday to pay tribute to a farmer who donated rare cultural relics to the museum, reported thepaper.cn.

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Forbidden City opens relic "hospital"

A state-of-the-art conservation center to "treat" ancient cultural relics in disrepair opened at Beijing's Palace Museum on Thursday.

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What made Master In Forbidden City documentary a success?

A recently released Chinese documentary featuring the Forbidden City's cultural relics andtheir restorers' lives became a surprise hit, with more than 2.4 million watching it on iQIYI, amajor video-streaming website in China.

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China calls for better protection of cultural relics

​The State Council, China's Cabinet, called for better protection for the nation's cultural relics and stronger law enforcement in an instruction published Tuesday.

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The long road home for China's imperial treasures

​Liang Jinsheng could have been retired for seven years, but he still rides his bicycle three hours everyday between his home and office in the Forbidden City. There, he carefully documents the cultural relics that failed to return to Beijing after the War Against Japanese Aggression (1931-1945).

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France returns gold artifacts to Chinese museum

Thirty-two gold ornaments stolen from ancient Chinese tombs and held by French collectors were formally handed over to northwest China's Gansu Provincial Museum on Monday.

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Memorial Hall collects grim reminders

The Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders exhibited 7,602 newly collected relics of the Japanese aggression on Monday morning.

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Historical buildings crumbling in revolution heartland

Historical buildings in east China, the heartland of the country's revolution, are an increasing concern to authorities amid strained maintenance expenses and rigid rules.

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Palace Museum to add foreign relics hall

China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is to renovate an unfinished Western-style "Hall of Water" into a hall for foreign cultural relics, according to the museum curator.

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Pinault family offers to return looted Chinese relics

The family of French luxury goods retailer Pinault announced Friday in Beijing that it will donate two pieces of looted Chinese cultural relics back to China.

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Experts call for improving law on cultural relics protection

Experts have called for timely moves to further improve the law on cultural relics protection at the time when the country marks the 30th anniversary of its legislation on protecting cultural heritage.