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National survey finds 108 mln moveable cultural artifacts

Xinhua, April 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

China's first national survey of moveable cultural artifacts has found that there are 108.15 million items or sets of such artifacts owned by the state.

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued a statement Friday saying that 26.61 million of them had been registered correctly.

China conducted the country's first census on moveable cultural artifacts from October 2012 to December 2016, to better gauge and protect the country's ancient artifacts.

The census, which covered over 1 million state institutions on the mainland, investigated, identified and registered various ancient artifacts, establishing a national database.

Paper and digital records of such artifacts will be maintained, with relevant information made available to the public.

A total of 7.08 million cultural artifacts were newly discovered during the survey. Endi