Hu Kaihong, executive deputy director of the Central Office for Spiritual Civilization and director of the Office of the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee, said at an Oct. 20 State Council Information Office briefing that the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for cultural heritage protection and inheritance — China’s first national five-year plan in this field. Centered on systematic protec

Hu Kaihong, executive deputy director of the Central Office for Spiritual Civilization and director of the Office of the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee, said at an Oct. 20 State Council Information Office briefing that the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for cultural heritage protection and inheritance — China’s first national five-year plan in this field. Centered on systematic protection, the plan aims to build a comprehensive cultural-heritage protection framework, strengthen governance capacity and support measures, and promote that framework based on a nationwide heritage resources survey, inheritance-and-development programs for China’s traditional culture, and legal and regulatory safeguards.