Gansu province establishes new museums

The Gansu Culture Relics Leadership Office has approved 20 new museums in Gansu, gmw.cn reported.

The new museums include the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre Exhibition Hall and the Qingcheng Huangqi Traditional Medicine Cultural Museum.

Gansu has launched 127 new museums in 2015, bringing its total to 385, 11 percent of all the museums in China.

Lian Ji, head of the publicity department of the Party’s Gansu Provincial Committee, noted that a series of high quality museums with Gansu characteristics should be established in the future.

He said the province will aim to set up another 100 museums in 2016, for a new total of 485.