Beijing, Dec 26 (IANS): China is home to 3,589 museums, including 535 private museums, a minister said Tuesday.
China will further improve the quality of displays and public services, Minister of Culture Cai Wu said at a conference on cultural relics.
Cai said cultural relics have gradually become a new focus for people's attention, and such relics can raise a city's appeal and greatly boost the development of the tourism industry, reported Xinhua.
In 2011, the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, received 14 million visitors, twice the amount of visitors in 2002. During national holidays, it welcomed even more visitors, with a record 182,000 people visiting the museum on a single day in 2011.