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

Key points

• The Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Culture and Tourism Development, clarifying the principles of protection first, rational use and minimal intervention.
• The plan calls for completing the fourth national cultural relics census, conducting the second national movable cultural relics census, and establishing national general catalogs of immovable cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage resources.
• The plan calls for advancing ancient book census registration, conservation and restoration, and digitalization.
• The plan proposes building a Chinese civilization identity system, making good use of national cultural parks, and promoting digital protection, utilization and dissemination of cultural heritage.
• The plan proposes developing cultural heritage tourism, building cultural relics-themed trails, and advancing intangible cultural heritage into scenic areas, resorts and districts.