Beijing Increases Investment For Cultural Relic Protection

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Beijing Increases Investment For Cultural Relic Protection

China's capital, Beijing, is to increase funding for cultural relic protection to 120 million yuan(14.46 million US dollars) annually till 2008.

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China's capital, Beijing, is to increase funding for cultural relic protection to 120 million yuan(14.46 million US dollars) annually till 2008.

Jiang Xiaoyu, vice-president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympics (BOCOG), made the announcement in a speech at a forum Wednesday.

The decision had been made to honor one of the commitments cityauthorities had made in the bid to win the right to host the Olympic Games in 2008, said Jiang.

Two other distinct features of the Beijing Olympic Games will be the increase in green coverage and afforestation, and increasing modernization of city infrastructure.

Previously, the municipal government spent 100 million yuan (12.1 million US dollars) on cultural relic protection each year.

Jiang said Beijing had listed 32 cultural programs under construction for the Olympics, involving over 50 cultural relic protection organizations and including the expansion of LiulichangCulture Park. By June this year, construction had begun on 14 of the programs.

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