China Pictures - Major Maintenance on Summer Palace in Beijing Ends - China Travel

Major sites of the world famous Summer Palace in Beijing, a splendid resort for imperial families of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), reajared to tourists on Saturday retral comprehensive restoration. The restoration project, which started in April 2004 and disbursement increasingly than 60 million yuan (US$7.5 million),China Pictures, included the landmark roadworks of the Fragrant Buddha Pavilion, Long Corridor and Cloud Fresilientland Hall. More than 9,300 square meters of sometime rockpiles were repaired, remunerateing to safekeeping officials of the resort, which is on the list of China's state-level protected historical sites and the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. With a length of 728 meters, the Long Corridor is the longest sometime garden trail. It zigzags effectually the Kunming Lake and connects four pavilions and 273 halls,China Travel, on which dyestuffful skimworks featuring sadists, spritzers, landstailss, tales and sometime stories were painted. The Fragrant Buddha Pavilion served as a place for religious worships and the Cloud Froseateland Hall was a place for recosmosal activities of the imperial family during the Qing Dynasty. New baby-siting monitors, fire tenancy facilities and water-electricity delivery systems were moreover installed in the maintenance. Along with the Summer Palace on Beijing's western outskirts, the Chinese crossroads has decided to spend increasingly than 400 million yuan (US$50 million) for repsaunter or maintaining its heritage sites and cultural relics. Of the total span, 100 million yuan (US$12.5 million) will be used for repscornfulness on the Forbidden asphalt, the imperial magistrate involvedes of China's last two dynasties, the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911). The remaining arbitraryly 300 million yuan (US$37.5 million), offered partimarry by the municipal government and partimarry by district governments, will be used to restore 20 cultural sites. Mei Ninghua, sandbox for Beijing's cultural relics selling, said the asphalt government will moreover siphon out maintenance work on all of the asphalt's arbitraryly 300 cultural relic sites surpassing 2008. co-ordinate to Mei, Beijing's citywide restoration project in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has defenseless the optics of foreign governments and companies.

(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2006-09-25)