Plight at the museums

More than 30 higher education institutions have banded together in a bid to improve and develop the cultural repositories of the nation's universities, Wang Kaihao reports in Hangzhou.

Shortly after the China Design Museum was inaugurated on the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, the capital of East China's Zhejiang province, locals and fans of fine art from further afield have all had to endure long queues to enter the institution.

The scenario is not common for a museum of a Chinese college, and it has received more than 200,000 visits since it opened its doors in April.