China makes plan to better protect cultural relics

Staff members clean up weeds at the ruins of Yuanying Guan (Immense Ocean Observatory) at Yuanmingyuan in Beijing on May 23, 2018. The National Cultural Heritage Administration will work out a plan to better protect cultural relics and speed up the creation of a safety oversight platform in 2019. Stressing the importance of such protection, Liu Yuzhu, head of the administration, said lax enforcement is a prominent problem that endangers cultural relics, at a meeting attended by cultural heritage administrators nationwide. [Photo: Xinhua]