Stop profiting at cost of cultural relics

From: China Daily | Date: May 28, 2002 | Copyright information

Local governments should not acquire economic profits at the expense of impairing cultural relics, urged an article in Guangming Daily.

Driven by instant gains, some local governments encourage cultural relics to be transferred to tourism companies for management and exploitation.

This practice severely runs against domestic and international regulations and laws on protecting cultural relics.

And it will inevitably generate huge damage to the preservation of cultural relics.

According to China's law on the protection of cultural relics, all relics are owned by the State. And only the central ...

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