China to strengthen cultural relic protection

Workers install scaffolds for the examination work of the Leshan Giant Buddha in Leshan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 19, 2018. The National Cultural Heritage Administration will work out a plan to better protect cultural relics and speed up the creation of a safety oversight platform in 2019. Stressing the importance of such protection, Liu Yuzhu, head of the administration, said lax enforcement is a prominent problem that endangers cultural relics, at a meeting attended by cultural heritage administrators nationwide. (Xinhua/Zhang Chaoqun)