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A national priority protected site is the highest-level national protection for immovable cultural relics in China. The designation was first created under the 1961 Provisional Regulations on the Protection and Management of Cultural Relics, which evolved into the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics. According to the 2002 Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the
National Cultural Heritage Administration The National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA; ) is a national bureau managed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China. It is responsible for the national protection of cultural relics and the regulation of museums. History After ...
of the State Council selects those with significant historical, artistic, and scientific value as national key cultural relics protection units. National key cultural relics protection units shall not be demolished; if they need to be relocated, they must be reported to the State Council for approval by applications from the people's government of the provincial administrative region.


Statistics

In 1999 it was reported that there were some 350,000 immovable cultural properties in China, of which 70,000 were protected at one of the three main levels, in addition to some 10,000,000 movable cultural properties held by state institutions alone. Of these, as of October 2019, 5,058 Sites Protected at the National Level have been designated by the State Administration. They were announced in 8 batches and several supplemental batches:


Sites protected at various levels

Sites (to Be) Protected for Their Historical and Cultural Value or Historical and Cultural Sites Protected () at various levels include: * Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level () * Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the Provincial Level () * Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the Level of a City Divided into Districts or at the Level of an
Autonomous Prefecture Autonomous prefectures ( zh, c=自治州, p=zìzhìzhōu) are one type of autonomous administrative divisions of China, autonomous administrative division in China, existing at the Prefecture-level divisions of China, prefectural level, with eith ...
() * Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the
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Level ()


See also

* Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China *
World Heritage Sites in China The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique, while others talk of a "plu ...
* Tourist Attraction Rating Categories of China


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{{National Heritage Sites in China, state=expanded Historic sites in China . Heritage registers in China . . . Chinese architectural history