China View discusses the Chinese governments latest efforts to restore their cultural heritage.
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China has launched a scheme to build an national system of state restoration centers to better protect its ancient books, the Ministry of Culture (MOC) said at a meeting here on Monday.
"We will pool resources to restore damaged ancient books," said Zhou Heping, vice-minister of the MOC, at the meeting on protection of ancient books, adding those listed in the national catalog of precious ancient books would be renovated first.
The catalog covers precious editions of ancient literary works, Chinese classics and historical records, which were printed or inscribed on bamboo sticks, silk fabrics, wood plaques, from the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), either in Chinese or in languages of minority ethnic groups, such as Tibetan and Mongolian.
A state center is set to have a staff of at least eight full-time technicians who have been practising renovation for more than ten years.
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