Help | Sitemap | Archive | Advanced Search | Mirror in USA   
  CHINA
  BUSINESS
  OPINION
  WORLD
  SCI-EDU
  SPORTS
  LIFE
  FEATURES
  PHOTO GALLERY

Message Board
Feedback
Voice of Readers
China Quiz
 China At a Glance
 Constitution of the PRC
 State Organs of the PRC
 CPC and State Leaders
 Chinese President Jiang Zemin
 White Papers of Chinese Government
 Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
 English Websites in China
Help
About Us
SiteMap
Employment

U.S. Mirror
Japan Mirror
Tech-Net Mirror
Edu-Net Mirror
 
Thursday, August 03, 2000, updated at 19:01(GMT+8)
Life  

World Bank Provides Loans for China's Relics Protection

The World Bank has decided to loan one million US dollars to help China restore a group of 300-year-old buildings in Chongqing City, southwest China.

With the money, a total of 16,000 sq m of buildings including old guild halls, traditional streets and blocks, and more than 400 meters of ancient city walls will be repaired and restored, said Wu Tao, a relics protection expert in the Chongqing Municipal Culture Bureau.

Guild halls are a kind of trade association that sprung up in China during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Such halls usually consisted of guest houses, opera towers and other facilities. Chongqing used to be a gathering place of businesspeople in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Huguang Guild Halls in Chongqing cover more than 8,460 sq m in area, the largest in the country.

Wu Tao said these wooden building with fine carvings feature architectural styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties in southern China.

Wen Rujun, an official with the Chongqing Municipal Development Planning Commission, said that the World Bank is highly concerned with the project and entrusted the Italian Government to fund China in drafting the plan for protecting the guild halls.

She said, the World Bank has the intention to add five million more US dollars to the project.




In This Section
 

The World Bank has decided to loan one million US dollars to help China restore a group of 300-year-old buildings in Chongqing City, southwest China.

Advanced Search


 


 


Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved