September 3, 2014
An aid-Tibet fund totaling 12.7 million yuan will be invested into building an exhibition center to showcase culture of Guge Kingdom in Zhada County of Nagri Prefecture, western Tibet, Xinhua reported. The project is expected to be completed next August.
At present, the capital funded by the Hebei aid-Tibet team has been in hand, and the planning and designing work has been finished, according to Sun Chengwei, deputy secretary of Zhada County.
Sun pointed out there were more than 4,000 pieces of cultural relics in the Zhada County, which mainly scatters among the people and religious venues.
“All the cultural relics we collected will be housed in the exhibition center, which is significant for the preservation and inheritance of culture of Guge Kingdom,” Sun said.
Guge Kingdom, an ancient kingdom estimated to have existed between the 9th and 17th centuries in what is known today as Zanda County, is famed for its ruins, which are the largest ruins and also best preserved artifacts from the kingdom, including color paintings, clay sculptures and stone sculptures.
