15th Five-Year Plan Deploys Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Culture and Tourism Development, making systematic arrangements for strengthening cultural heritage protection and inheritance, and clarifying the principles of protection first, rational use and minimal intervention to promote systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage. The plan calls for completing the fourth national cultural relics census, conducting the second national movable cultural relics census, establishing national general catalogs of immovable cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage resources, and advancing ancient book census registration, conservation and restorati…