Industrial heritage sites need law for protection from urbanization

The country must formulate a law to protect industrial heritage sites during the ongoing wave of rapid urbanization, said Wei Xuefeng, a deputy to the annual session of the National People's Congress.

Wei, deputy curator of Sichuan Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, said that departments in charge of cultural relics have ignored industrial heritage sites when talking about the protection of relics.

Industrial heritage refers to the physical remains of technology and industry, such as manufacturing sites, and it bears the memory of an era, said Wei, citing Hanyang Arsenal, one of the largest and oldest modern arsenals in China.