Monasteries in Tibet undergo major restoration works

Updated: 2016-08-01 15:17

By Wang Kaihao in Lhasa and Shannan, the Tibet autonomous region(chinadaily.com.cn)

[Photo by Wang Kaihao/China Daily]

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There are 55 sites in Tibet that are listed as nation-level key protection units of China, and 4,277 sites in the region are registered as "unmovable historical heritages."

According to Liu Yuzhu, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, on a conference in Lhasa last week, the central government's support for cultural heritage protection in Tibet has greatly increased in the past two decades: Three billion yuan has been allocated to the autonomous region.

"No less than 200 million yuan will be put into the work within the next five years," he promised. The number was 160 million in the past five years.