China's Xi orders better protection of cultural heritage

China needs to step up its efforts to protect its cultural heritage, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, warning it remained an arduous task for the world's second-largest economy. Officials have repeatedly warned that China's cultural sites are being threatened by breakneck development, theft, damage from a booming tourism industry and poor regulation. Xi told a meeting on cultural protection that a country's cultural heritage is a precious treasure handed down from its ancestors, state news