Cultural relics guide to spur innovation

Protection and inheritance of the nation's cultural heritage has become one of the most important parts of China's comprehensive development in the new era, as shown by a key document released as a national guide.

The guide, which aims to reform the system for the protection and use of cultural relics, was co-released by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council through Xinhua News Agency on Monday.

It was the first time the country's top decision-making bodies had jointly released a guiding document specifically on work relating to cultural relics since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, according to Liu Yuzhu, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.