Inner Mongolia's immovable cultural heritages break 21,000

By Liu Yufen (chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-09-12

Sept 6 marks the Inner Mongolia autonomous region's 10th grassland culture heritage protection day. The autonomous region established the day in 2005 to protect its grassland culture heritage and carry forward its ethnic culture.

The local government has conducted movable cultural relic surveys, relic protection, historic building maintenance and intangible cultural heritage protection system construction in recent years. To date, Inner Mongolia is home to more than 21,000 immovable cultural heritages, 141 units under State protection, 319 units under local protection, and more than 3,000 intangible cultural heritages.

A total of 500,000 cultural relics are collected at museums across the region. The site of Xanadu, the capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), was named a world cultural heritage, and the Hoomii and long tune made the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The region has 63 national intangible cultural heritages, 42 national inheritors and 399 inheritors at the regional level. The local government also named 13 regional cultural and ecological preservation areas and six Hoomii and long tune heritage facilities.