China Issues 15th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance

The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance, requiring all regions and departments to implement it in light of actual conditions. Drafted under the 15th Five-Year Plan outline, it targets fully mapping heritage resources, basically straightening out the regulatory system, improving laws and regulations, and forming a broad heritage-protection framework by 2030. It calls for a second national movable-relic census and a second national intangible cultural heritage census, a national heritage resource catalogue and big database, enactment of a cultural heritage protec…