New national relic protection units approved
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Monday, 13 May 2013 10:02
Recently, the State Council approved and announced the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units (with a total number of 1943) and those that are combined with the existing ones (with a total number of 47), of which nine new units and two combined ones are from Ningbo. So far, there have been 31 national key cultural relic protection units in Ningbo.
It is understood that the new units include such ancient relics as Tianluo Mountain relic in Yuyao County (dating back to the New Stone Age), Zishan Mountain relic in Yuyao County (dating back to the New Stone Age), Tashan Mountain relic in Xiangshan County (dating back from the New Stone Age to Zhou Dynasties) and the ancient barrack site of Hua'ao Island of Xiangshan County (dating back from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty), such ancient buildings as the Erling Pagoda in Yinzhou District (dating back to Song Dynasty) and the Ancient Lins' Mansion in Haishu District (dating back to Qing Dynasty), and such representative contemporary buildings as the ancient Jintang School site in Cixi County (dating back to 1909). In the meantime, the various coastal lighthouses (dating back to the ROC period) in Zhehai District, Beilun District , Xiangshan County and the Dinghai District of Zhoushan are collectively named "coastal lighthouses of eastern Zhejiang area", and the Ningbo section of the grand canal is collectively named as "Grand Canal" together with those sections in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Shandong Province and Henan Province (dating from the Spring and Autumn Period to the founding of the People's Republic of China).
RALPH KOPPITZ
