Capital Museum expands cultural exchanges

Beijing's Capital Museum is expanding its exchanges with other countries as part of the city's renewed focus on building a national cultural center.

In the two years since President Xi Jinping visited the museum and decreed that preservation of China's cultural industry should be one of Beijing's key roles, the museum has been working to set an example for the city's arts institutions.

Wang Anshun, Beijing's mayor, said the city will be focusing this year on cultivating cultural industries and better protecting cultural relics, consistent with Xi's mandates.