File photo taken on June 28, 2013 shows Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO of PPR Foundation and the "owner" of two bronze animal head sculptures, unveiling a handover ceremony of the heads plundered by western invaders one-and-a-half centuries ago in Beijing, capital of China. The heads of a rat and a rabbit, parts of a fountain clock that previously stood at the Old Summer Palace, or "Yuanmingyuan" in Chinese, were donated on April 26, 2013 by the Pinault family. A Chinese bronze vessel looted from Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, has recently returned to China and entered the collections at the National Museum of China on Dec. 11, 2018. "Chinese cultural relics lost overseas are an important component of the cultural heritage of our country," said Liu Yuzhu, head of China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), adding they bear the profound history and cultural emotions of the Chinese people. Liu said SACH has in recent years successfully facilitated the return of many lost cultural relics to China. (Xinhua/Li Xin)
