MoHURD to Preserve Buildings of Historical-Cultural Value

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MoHURD) has published a plan in August 2016 to protect and preserve historical and cultural blocks and buildings in China. According to the plan, all cities have to identify historical and cultural blocks and historic buildings in the next five years and publish a list of suggestions for their protection. The Provincial Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau collects and verifies the data. In the supervision and inspection stage (beginning of 2019), the protection and improvement measures will be checked and supervised in order to guaranty smooth implementation by municipal governments and are planned to be finished by 2020. To the article...