Museums from around world plan joint show

Eighteen national-level museums are to join hands in a major cultural relics exhibition next year in Beijing to promote better understanding of different civilizations.

The plan was announced during a two-day conference of the International Alliance of Museums of the Silk Road, which wrapped up on Sunday in Fuzhou, Fujian province.

Huang Zhenchun, secretary-general of the alliance and also deputy director of the National Museum of China in Beijing, announced that the exhibition will open in the museum in March.