China to strengthen cultural relic protection

Gao Huiyun, a teacher of cultural relics restoration and protection, restores an ancient book at a workshop in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 2, 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. (Xinhua/Chen Qibao)