Jiang Siwei News Today

Many cultural relics in Northwest China’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces suffered damage during the Jishishan earthquake that occurred last week. China’s top cultural authority announced Saturday that emergency funds are being distributed for restoration of the damaged relics.

Southwest Chinas Chongqing Municipality boasts around 100,000 rock carvings that date back to more than a thousand years ago. They are scattered in various corners of the bustling mountainous city, with nearly half of the preserved sites in Dazu, a suburb about 50 kilometers from the city center. The Dazu Rock Carvings were listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in 1999.