China has set up a database in an effort to reclaim lost
cultural relic treasures abroad, said Shan Jixiang, Director of the
State Administration of Cultural Heritage on Thursday.
"The Chinese government is making its utmost to reclaim and
collect the precious cultural relics lost overseas," he told a
press conference organized by the Information Office of the State
Council on Thursday.
China is among the countries which lost a large number of
cultural relics over the past two centuries.
(Xinhua News Agency May 25, 2006)
